Anne Carbert
@accarbert.bsky.social
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Here for informed views on the polycrisis & voices for justice, action, hope, & care … plus sharing some art & natural beauty! Ontario transplant living in Cumberland NS, Mi’kma’ki She/Her
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sethdklein.bsky.social
This is extremely alarming. Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social won the federal election promising to make us *less* depending on the US. Now we are hearing reports that he is offering up a CLOSER energy and military partnership in exchange for a trade deal... 🧵

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News
Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.
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accarbert.bsky.social
“I’m afraid of what happens if I stop feeling too much. I don't want to become someone who moves and breathes like all of this is normal. I am afraid of what that would make me. I am afraid of what that tendency has already made me, in some ways, and what it has made the world.”
mskellymhayes.bsky.social
"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.
The Emergency Is the Atmosphere
“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."
organizingmythoughts.org
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caringsociety.bsky.social
Canada is taking First Nations kids back to court on October 6th, 2025.

Read more about the Powless family and supporters holding Canada accountable for its legal obligations concerning Jordan's Principle, bit.ly/PowlessInformationSheet

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accarbert.bsky.social
Energizing time in Fredericton #NewBrunswick at the @canadiansorg.bsky.social info table at the Walastokuk Social Forum! About 40 groups there with visions & actions for a more peaceful, sustainable, equitable & people-centred society. We have the solutions! Organized people vs organized money! ✊💕
A group of five people (volunteers and Atlantic regional coordinator) stand and sit together behind a table with a banner that says “Council of Canadians. People. Planet. Democracy.” Three of the people wear t-shirts that say “Billionaires VS All Of Us” Poster for the Social Forum in Wolastokuk Oct. 4-5 listing themes including climate justice, Indigenous sovereignty, worker power and Palestine solidarity and listing supporting organizations: NB Media Co-op, CEDAR, Migrant Justice Centre and Wilmot United Church Stickers, buttons, and zines on the Council of Canadians info table highlighting opposition to fracking, support for public water, the Draw The Line campaign, and Canadian sovereignty in the face of annexation threats from the US administration.
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joanbaxter.bsky.social
Nova Scotia - a province known for endless rainy days & many bountiful rivers & lakes - is into its 4th month of extreme drought. This is the French River, that provides Tatamagouche with water (or not). Climate crisis kicking in. But: let’s frack and clearcut anyway, says NS Premier Tim Houston.
A rocky and pebbly riverbed with almost no water in it, and in the middle of the gravelly empty middle, grass is growing. Some reddish and green shrubs are visible on the left of the photo.
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bcnwa.bsky.social
October 4 - Sisters in Spirit Day
We remember and honour Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people who are missing or murdered.
Safety for Indigenous women reflects safety for us all.

#SistersInSpirit #MMIWG2S #MMIP #NoMoreStolenSisters #BCNWA
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climateunit.bsky.social
🍁 On Nov 4, Carney unveils Budget 2025, promising a "generational investment" in Canada.

One program could deliver jobs + climate action: a Youth Climate Corps.

This program would provide paid work for young people restoring ecosystems, protecting communities, and building clean infrastructure.
Canada Needs a Youth Climate Corps 🤝
YouTube video by Climate Emergency Unit
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darlenemcleod.bsky.social
It is truly demoralizing just how many people of privilege--white, straight, cis, etc--have chosen to be oblivious to what is happening. Ignoring reality in the name of "preserving my peace" is morally bankrupt when so, so many people can never have that peace.
We who have privilege: USE IT.
angryblacklady.blacksky.app
I think what’s most frustrating right now for Black and Indigneous people is waiting for the bulk of white folks to catch up.

At some point the “this isn’t who we are” and “I didn’t have this on my bingo card” has to end and y’all will catch up, right? RIGHT?

WE NEED YOU TO CATCH UP.
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stopkillerrobots.bsky.social
🗣️ Nobel Laureate and journalist @mariaressa.bsky.social
urged states to establish clear international rules to prevent “universally unacceptable risks for #AI. At the very least, define what AI should never be allowed to do.”
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bhaggart.bsky.social
When considering public spending, debt and taxes, it’s much better to focus not on some arbitrary, unscientific debt threshold, but on what you’re getting for your investment, recognizing that government investment creates new markets and opportunities.
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ricochetmedia.bsky.social
How is there still no office for Indigenous rights complaints? Six years after #MMIWG Calls to Action, #Canada still has no ombudsman.

“To be honest with you, I’m kind of frustrated that we haven’t heard much response.”

New from @jonthompson.bsky.social:

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How is there still no office for Indigenous rights complaints?
Six years after MMIWG Calls to Action, Canada still has no ombudsman on Indigenous and human rights
ricochet.media
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hrw.org
Israeli authorities have once again intercepted aid boats destined for Gaza. This comes as Israeli forces escalate their assault on Gaza City and continue starving the population.

Flotillas are filling the void amid governments’ inaction. Learn more:
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breachmedia.ca
Who stands to benefit from the gutting of Canada Post?

The billionaire class.

If Mark Carney were really serious about nation-building, Dru OJa Jay writes how the post office could become an engine for green energy, public banking, and better services. breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...
Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine ⋆ The Breach
The Liberal government is dismantling Canada Post for the billionaire class, while ignoring bold proposals from postal workers to reinvent the public service
breachmedia.ca
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aptnnews.bsky.social
Phyllis Webstad has become a household name when it comes to answering the TRC's 94 Calls to Action, sharing her orange shirt story through several children’s books.

Now, she's co-written a book confronting residential school denialists.
Confronting residential school denialism through new book ‘Decolonization and Me’ | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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accarbert.bsky.social
CETP (Clean Energy Transition Partnership) was launched at COP26 (2021), where country and public finance institution signatories committed to transition our international public support towards the clean energy transition and out of unabated fossil fuels, within a year of signing the statement.
oilchange.bsky.social
NEW: Our new research shows public finance for fossil fuels from @CETP_Sec countries has dropped 78% in 2024 compared to 2019-21 - a drop of $11.3–16.3 billion/yr!

This shows that CETP is working - an example of international action to tackle fossil finance!

Read ➡️ oilchange.org/publications...
Holding course, missing speed - Oil Change International
This report finds that CETP members cut fossil fuel finance by up to 78% but need to rapidly scale up finance for renewables.
oilchange.org
accarbert.bsky.social
Sad and sorry to read this. And angry. It’s a horrible situation. I wish the best for your sister.
accarbert.bsky.social
I hate stories like this. We should be protecting against hospital acquired infections.
lidsville.bsky.social
My developmentally disabled sister was admitted to hospital in a @vchhealthcare.bsky.social hospital 3 days ago with pneumonia. Didn't have Covid. Now suddenly she does, in an unmasked hospital amidst a massive Covid wave that VCH is telling no one about. MURDEROUS #bcpoli @josieosborne.bsky.social
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christyceeck.bsky.social
Here Del Duca does something interesting with msging. He tries to reframe dangerous driving as benign, thereby exonerating himself from doing harm cancelling the cameras, while also sounding like he's empathetic & tough on crime. Cynical stuff for a man removing cameras meant to protect kids.

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The other message that my residents have conveyed to me, which I will convey to you, and I've explained this to the premier, and he knows it instinctively, the people of this city, and I suspect the people of Ontario, want us to focus on what I will call the real criminals. 
They don't want us to be dinging them, as I mentioned a moment ago. They acknowledge occasionally going a few kilometers over, but when someone gets killed in front of their own kids, when someone has their home in a quiet residential street shot at in one case more than once, when York Regional Police do their job, but our bail system and our and our criminal justice system is letting everyone down. To equate the two, speed cameras with going after the real criminals, it's not even a close fight. 
My job as mayor, one of my most important obligations is to keep the people of Vaughn safe. It's something that I will turn over every stone to make happen.