Torrance Coste
@torrancecoste.bsky.social
he/him. New here (still on the other nightmare website). Settler on Malahat and quw’utsun territories. Dad. Working for environmental justice with the @wildernews.bsky.social. Middle-millennial. Dog person. Demon on the cribbage board.
you can go build your pipeline in hell you gutless coward
Premier Smith and I have agreed to a framework built on shared ambitions — to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050, unlock the full potential of Alberta’s energy resources, and build a stronger, more sustainable, more competitive economy.
November 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
you can go build your pipeline in hell you gutless coward
The neoliberal politicians talking about “the economy of the future” are literally just dusting off shitty ideas from 20 years ago, it’s so tacky and embarrassing for them
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ANALYSIS | Spills, spies and Tim Hortons boycotts: A look back at the 'fight for Canada's soul' over Northern Gateway | CBC News
The details of the decade-long, fractious debate over the Northern Gateway pipeline may have faded in memory, but that fight takes on a renewed relevance today, as Ottawa and Alberta come together wit...
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November 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The neoliberal politicians talking about “the economy of the future” are literally just dusting off shitty ideas from 20 years ago, it’s so tacky and embarrassing for them
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Media Release: B.C.’s Unkept Promises on Old-Growth Fuelling Recent Arrests in the Walbran Valley
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B.C.'s Unkept Promises on Old-growth Fueling Recent Arrests
BC NDP’s “talk-and-log” approach destroys nonrenewable ancient forests and drives conflict in Walbran ValleyVICTORIA/UNCEDED lək̓ʷəŋən TERRITORIES — In response to arrests this week at blockades in th...
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November 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Media Release: B.C.’s Unkept Promises on Old-Growth Fuelling Recent Arrests in the Walbran Valley
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www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/bcs-unk... #bcpoli
In a year when governments are clambering over each other to wreck environmental protections, the Ford government is working overtime to hold onto its title of most ghoulish
BREAKING: Yesterday the Ford government passed Bill 68, the Plan to Protect Ontario Act, quietly legislating the removal of lands from Wasaga Beach Provincial Park, including public access beaches and critical habitat for endangered piping plovers. #ONpoli
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Ontario uses budget bill to remove parklands
Wilderness Committee condemns the sell-off of portions of Wasaga Beach Provincial ParkTORONTO / TRADITIONAL TERRITORIES OF MISSISSAUGAS OF THE CREDIT, ANISHNAABEG, CHIPPEWA, HAUDENOSAUNEE AND WENDAT —...
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November 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
In a year when governments are clambering over each other to wreck environmental protections, the Ford government is working overtime to hold onto its title of most ghoulish
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The solidarity and courage people showed in opposing this budget won’t be lost and neither will the fight for a council that truly represents its people.
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The solidarity and courage people showed in opposing this budget won’t be lost and neither will the fight for a council that truly represents its people.
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We’re disappointed to see the City of Vancouver approve a devastating austerity budget, with no clarity on what services, programs and plans will be cut. Despite hundreds opposing this budget by speaking in person or writing in, Mayor Sim and ABC party chose to push it through anyway.
#VanPoli
#VanPoli
November 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We’re disappointed to see the City of Vancouver approve a devastating austerity budget, with no clarity on what services, programs and plans will be cut. Despite hundreds opposing this budget by speaking in person or writing in, Mayor Sim and ABC party chose to push it through anyway.
#VanPoli
#VanPoli
The feds pouring subsidies into logging that directly compromises their own species recovery efforts underscores just how much power this industry has over governments here.
BREAKING: Federal government subsidizing logging industry that continues to clearcut in federally-mapped endangered species habitat
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Wilderness Committee calls for end to logging in endangered species habitat as feds float logging handouts
Carney government commits $1.2 billion to subsidize the forest industry while evidence shows provinces approve clearcutting in federally mapped critical habitat of several species. VANCOUVER / UNCEDED...
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November 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The feds pouring subsidies into logging that directly compromises their own species recovery efforts underscores just how much power this industry has over governments here.
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The @cityofvancouver.bsky.social’s draft budget slashes funding for climate and sustainability, arts, culture and services —pretty much everything except police.
There’s still time for councillors to do the right thing and vote it down. Take action here:
www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/...
There’s still time for councillors to do the right thing and vote it down. Take action here:
www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/...
Reject the city’s draft 2026 budget
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November 20, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The @cityofvancouver.bsky.social’s draft budget slashes funding for climate and sustainability, arts, culture and services —pretty much everything except police.
There’s still time for councillors to do the right thing and vote it down. Take action here:
www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/...
There’s still time for councillors to do the right thing and vote it down. Take action here:
www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/...
No one is free until we're all free, and our communities won't be whole or just or thriving and just until they are safe for trans folks to live and grow and enjoy life like everyone else.
Love and solidarity to every trans person everywhere.
#TransDayOfRemembrance #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Love and solidarity to every trans person everywhere.
#TransDayOfRemembrance #TransRightsAreHumanRights
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
No one is free until we're all free, and our communities won't be whole or just or thriving and just until they are safe for trans folks to live and grow and enjoy life like everyone else.
Love and solidarity to every trans person everywhere.
#TransDayOfRemembrance #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Love and solidarity to every trans person everywhere.
#TransDayOfRemembrance #TransRightsAreHumanRights
Forest minister @rparmarbc.bsky.social doesn't have to drive 40 minutes out of his own riding to see the massive clearcuts logging corporations still do across B.C.
He knows the "we don't clearcut like that anymore" argument isn't true, and he repeats it anyways.
#bcpoli
He knows the "we don't clearcut like that anymore" argument isn't true, and he repeats it anyways.
#bcpoli
B.C. says 1950s-style clear-cut logging isn’t happening anymore. Is that true? @sobittersosweet.bsky.social explains #clearcutlogging
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Forest minister @rparmarbc.bsky.social doesn't have to drive 40 minutes out of his own riding to see the massive clearcuts logging corporations still do across B.C.
He knows the "we don't clearcut like that anymore" argument isn't true, and he repeats it anyways.
#bcpoli
He knows the "we don't clearcut like that anymore" argument isn't true, and he repeats it anyways.
#bcpoli
Grimly accurate framing here from the local AM station: the minister of forests and the BC NDP government don’t manage these life-giving ecosystems for the hundreds of values they contain, but instead for just one of them, that’s extracted at the expense of the others.
B.C. lumber minister "bullish" in trying to get province's lumber in front of Russian product in South Korea, Japan #yyj #BCpoli
Ravi Parmar hares the updates on his latest trade mission with @ryanpricevictoria.bsky.social:
www.iheart.com/podcast/962-...
Ravi Parmar hares the updates on his latest trade mission with @ryanpricevictoria.bsky.social:
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B.C. lumber minister
<p>B.C. Forestry Minister Ravi Parmar joins Ryan. </p>
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November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Grimly accurate framing here from the local AM station: the minister of forests and the BC NDP government don’t manage these life-giving ecosystems for the hundreds of values they contain, but instead for just one of them, that’s extracted at the expense of the others.
The BC NDP government talks a lot about rebuilding the forest sector, but they don't talk at all about addressing the simple reality that this industry has cut too much, too fast, for too long, in too many places, and that this still continues.
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www.biv.com/news/resourc... #bcpoli
Leaked report claims B.C. timber harvest is vastly overestimated
An undisclosed report obtained by BIV estimates the province is likely approving twice as much logging than can be sustainably harvested
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November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
The BC NDP government talks a lot about rebuilding the forest sector, but they don't talk at all about addressing the simple reality that this industry has cut too much, too fast, for too long, in too many places, and that this still continues.
www.biv.com/news/resourc... #bcpoli
www.biv.com/news/resourc... #bcpoli
Truly surreal listening to B.C. forest minister @rparmarbc.bsky.social on CBC this morning, celebrating the fact that Western Forest Products (one of the biggest destroyers of non-renewable old-growth forests here) is building hundreds of Starbucks stores in Japan out of western red cedar.
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
November 19, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Truly surreal listening to B.C. forest minister @rparmarbc.bsky.social on CBC this morning, celebrating the fact that Western Forest Products (one of the biggest destroyers of non-renewable old-growth forests here) is building hundreds of Starbucks stores in Japan out of western red cedar.
#bcpoli
#bcpoli
it’s wild this man built his political career opposing Christy Clark’s messaging, policies and politics only to wholeheartedly adopt all of them 8 years later
Eby says B.C. is at a ‘pivot point’ as he promises future based on natural resources
Eby says B.C. is at a ‘pivot point’ as he promises future based on natural resources
Members of British Columbia’s New Democrats are meeting this weekend in Victoria with a mandatory leadership review for Premier David Eby and as many as 400 resolutions for delegates to consider.
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November 16, 2025 at 5:52 PM
it’s wild this man built his political career opposing Christy Clark’s messaging, policies and politics only to wholeheartedly adopt all of them 8 years later
Tegan knows what’s up folks 👇🏼
We just spilled the dirty, greenwashing truth about Drax 👀
At #COP30, Senior Forest Campaigner Tegan Hansen explains how the energy giant is burying the facts: forest biomass is anything but renewable. 🧵
At #COP30, Senior Forest Campaigner Tegan Hansen explains how the energy giant is burying the facts: forest biomass is anything but renewable. 🧵
The dirty truth about biomass.
YouTube video by Stand.earth
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November 16, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tegan knows what’s up folks 👇🏼
“Hey dad?”
“Yeah love?”
“What is the song Who Let The Dogs Out about?”
They don’t warn you how much of parenting is fielding absolutely harrowing questions like this.
“Yeah love?”
“What is the song Who Let The Dogs Out about?”
They don’t warn you how much of parenting is fielding absolutely harrowing questions like this.
November 15, 2025 at 1:15 AM
“Hey dad?”
“Yeah love?”
“What is the song Who Let The Dogs Out about?”
They don’t warn you how much of parenting is fielding absolutely harrowing questions like this.
“Yeah love?”
“What is the song Who Let The Dogs Out about?”
They don’t warn you how much of parenting is fielding absolutely harrowing questions like this.
Fast-tracking fossil fuel export projects and pumping public money into a transmission line to power the same has absolutely nothing to do with "resilience."
This is government handouts to corporations and the super rich, nothing else.
This is government handouts to corporations and the super rich, nothing else.
It’s time to build the major projects that will move us from reliance to resilience, strengthen our economy, and create high-paying careers across the country.
November 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Fast-tracking fossil fuel export projects and pumping public money into a transmission line to power the same has absolutely nothing to do with "resilience."
This is government handouts to corporations and the super rich, nothing else.
This is government handouts to corporations and the super rich, nothing else.
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BREAKING: Carney doubles down on #fossilfuels under the guise of ‘national interest’ - including Ksi Lisims LNG. #cdnpoli
“Carney is pushing US-owned fossil fuel projects that threaten our #climate,” - Climate Campaigner Isabel Siu-Zmuidzinas.
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“Carney is pushing US-owned fossil fuel projects that threaten our #climate,” - Climate Campaigner Isabel Siu-Zmuidzinas.
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Carney doubles down on fossil fuels under the guise of ‘national interest’
New list of projects to be expedited includes fossil fuel expansion and greenwashingVANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh AND səlilwətaɬ TERRITORIES — Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the...
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November 13, 2025 at 8:28 PM
BREAKING: Carney doubles down on #fossilfuels under the guise of ‘national interest’ - including Ksi Lisims LNG. #cdnpoli
“Carney is pushing US-owned fossil fuel projects that threaten our #climate,” - Climate Campaigner Isabel Siu-Zmuidzinas.
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“Carney is pushing US-owned fossil fuel projects that threaten our #climate,” - Climate Campaigner Isabel Siu-Zmuidzinas.
www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/carney-...
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Mark Carney is about to announce more of his “elbows up” major projects.
But under the surface, one that’s being sold as an Indigenous-led LNG project is actually — spoiler — American as hell.
That’s not even the worst part!
@emilylowan.bsky.social joined me to discuss:
But under the surface, one that’s being sold as an Indigenous-led LNG project is actually — spoiler — American as hell.
That’s not even the worst part!
@emilylowan.bsky.social joined me to discuss:
November 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Mark Carney is about to announce more of his “elbows up” major projects.
But under the surface, one that’s being sold as an Indigenous-led LNG project is actually — spoiler — American as hell.
That’s not even the worst part!
@emilylowan.bsky.social joined me to discuss:
But under the surface, one that’s being sold as an Indigenous-led LNG project is actually — spoiler — American as hell.
That’s not even the worst part!
@emilylowan.bsky.social joined me to discuss:
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Old-growth forests are more than just trees; they are entire ecosystems. Plants, animals, fungi and other living things all rely on these ancient giants to live.
When #oldgrowth trees are logged, it's more than just a tree that's lost; it's an entire #ecosystem.
📸 Fire Lake by Agathe Bernard
When #oldgrowth trees are logged, it's more than just a tree that's lost; it's an entire #ecosystem.
📸 Fire Lake by Agathe Bernard
November 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Old-growth forests are more than just trees; they are entire ecosystems. Plants, animals, fungi and other living things all rely on these ancient giants to live.
When #oldgrowth trees are logged, it's more than just a tree that's lost; it's an entire #ecosystem.
📸 Fire Lake by Agathe Bernard
When #oldgrowth trees are logged, it's more than just a tree that's lost; it's an entire #ecosystem.
📸 Fire Lake by Agathe Bernard
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NEWS RELEASE: “Prime Minister Carney’s first budget reads like a war plan against people and the planet."
Budget 2025 underscores the federal government's continued trajectory of focusing on industrial development at the expense of people, public services and the environment.
#CDNpoli #Budget2025
Budget 2025 underscores the federal government's continued trajectory of focusing on industrial development at the expense of people, public services and the environment.
#CDNpoli #Budget2025
Budget 2025 entrenches Carney government’s backsliding on climate and environmental protection
Focus on mega-projects and deep cuts to civil service ignores environmental realities and invests in classic, unsustainable resource extraction modelVANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵ wx̱wú7mesh AND...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
NEWS RELEASE: “Prime Minister Carney’s first budget reads like a war plan against people and the planet."
Budget 2025 underscores the federal government's continued trajectory of focusing on industrial development at the expense of people, public services and the environment.
#CDNpoli #Budget2025
Budget 2025 underscores the federal government's continued trajectory of focusing on industrial development at the expense of people, public services and the environment.
#CDNpoli #Budget2025
this and dick cheney going to hell on the same day feels like 2025 being like here have a little treat
Zohran Mamdani will become New York City's next mayor, CNN projects, after a meteoric rise in Democratic politics. Follow live updates. https://cnn.it/43gCYeJ
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
this and dick cheney going to hell on the same day feels like 2025 being like here have a little treat
Not enough money for a robust public service or support for migrants, but countless billions for megaprojects and the military.
Progressive, liberal Canada in 2025.
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Progressive, liberal Canada in 2025.
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Canada’s proposed budget sees deficit rise to $78B. Here’s what to know about the Carney government’s plans | CBC
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November 5, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Not enough money for a robust public service or support for migrants, but countless billions for megaprojects and the military.
Progressive, liberal Canada in 2025.
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Progressive, liberal Canada in 2025.
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happening today south Island pals!
Did you miss the big rally to protect Goldstream River?
Don't worry -- you can keep showing your support for Goldstream and Elder Carl Olsen by joining the weekly protest!
Join us tomorrow to keep the momentum for #Goldstream going 👇
#bcpoli
Don't worry -- you can keep showing your support for Goldstream and Elder Carl Olsen by joining the weekly protest!
Join us tomorrow to keep the momentum for #Goldstream going 👇
#bcpoli
Protest to Protect Goldstream
Join the movement to protect Goldstream from the Malahat highway expansion 🐟 🌲RALLY INFO:⏰ Tuesday at 10 a.m.📍 Goldstream Park day-use area, on so-called Vancouver Island☀️ Rain or shineMORE ABOUT…
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November 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
happening today south Island pals!