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Claire Kraatz
@climatemamaclaire.bsky.social
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Mom, wife, educator, activist. Co-founder of For Our Kids Alberta. Passionate about people and our beautiful planet. Treaty 7. She/her 🌎
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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · Aug 13
💥 Act now! 💥
🔥 Methane is fueling wildfires.
💨 It’s a super-pollutant heating our planet fast.
✍️ Sign @forourkidscanada.bsky.social’s letter for urgent action:
#cdnpoli #climateaction #halifaxfire #NovaScotiaWildfires #nlwx #nlwildfires #climateactionnow #forourkids
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Support Bold Action on Methane Pollution
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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 3m
Tobacco giant pushed back against Canadian labelling rules

@picardonhealth.bsky.social @canadahealthwatch.ca #tobacco #health #cdnpoli
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Investigative Journalism Foundation @theijf.org · 5d
One of the world’s largest cigarette makers lobbied vigorously against Canada’s tobacco labelling policy. Check the document we found in our Open by Default database.

zurl.co/AWaal

#cdnpoli #tobacco
Tobacco giant pushed back against Canadian labelling rules
Imperial Tobacco argued individual labels for cigarettes were not useful. Instead, it promoted vaping
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Investigative Journalism Foundation @theijf.org · 2d
It was touted as the answer to what Premier Danielle Smith called the "leaky" U.S. border, but how effective has Alberta's new border patrol been? Here’s what we found about the number of arrests this $29 million team has made so far.

zurl.co/K8YCO

#abpoli #border
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Youth en Route @youthenroute.bsky.social · 6d
Hey Look! We're in @shifter.info 's new video.

And yes, those amazing bike racks at Lester Pearson, are our wheel-bender to functional rack conversion - with chains so you don't need a U-Lock.

Lots' of good data and information here. #yycbike
#yycbe #yyccsd
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Tom Babin @shifter.info · 7d
New video: The story of one boy has given me hope for getting more kids riding bikes to school again
youtu.be/Lqz6TjVXIxc
Why kids don't bike to school anymore (and 5 things that can fix it)
YouTube video by Shifter
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AB Garden Girl 🇨🇦 @ab-garden-girl.bsky.social · Jun 27
And this is the woman who owns the company that wants to mine our eastern slopes.
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · Jun 27
Rinehart says net zero is "magic pudding," and only those who want to cut emissions should pay | RenewEconomy share.google/SQHcFaTYbfAX.... #Auspol Born into wealth, self entitled and Australia's richest women would rather destroy the planet than pay Taxes and help fight climate change.
Rinehart says net zero is “magic pudding,” and only those who want to cut emissions should pay
Australia’s richest person says net zero is a “magic pudding” and suggests only those wanting to cut emissions should pay for it.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · Jun 25
Reuters reporting that oil and gas producers in Alberta flared (i.e. burned off excess) natural gas to the tune of 912.7 million cubic metres in 2024.

By my math, that would emit about 1.8 megatonnes of greenhouse gas emissions.

Or roughly the equivalent of Alberta's entire cement industry.
Exclusive: Alberta blew past gas flaring ceiling in 2024 as province eliminates limit
Energy producers in Alberta, Canada's top oil-producing province, blew past the province's self-imposed limit on annual natural gas flaring in 2024 for a second year in a row, Reuters calculations show.
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Bentley @bigclimate.bsky.social · Jun 26
We shouldn't. It's the boondoggliest boondoggle in the history of boondoggling #Boondoggliest #CarbonCapture #BigOil #abpoli #cdnpoli #MarkCarney www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/26/o...
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Breen Ouellette (he/him) @breeno.bsky.social · 6h
Would 💕LOVE💕 to see
The Democracy Fund by Rebel News
get its charitable status revoked
and receive BIG FINES.

Find out how to report them here:

www.canada.ca/en/revenue-a...
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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 3h
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute - ties to Atlas Network and fossil fuel billionaires. #hate #extremism #humanrights.
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Andrea James @jokestress.bsky.social · Aug 13
Thanks to Denio Lourenco for including me in this deep dive into one of Canada‘s most influential anti-trans organizations, Macdonald-Laurier Institute! xtramagazine.com/power/politi...
This Canadian think tank is claiming ‘victory’ over anti-trans legislation | Xtra Magazine
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute routinely publishes material targeting trans rights
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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · Aug 31
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute routinely publishes material targeting trans rights
This Canadian think tank is claiming ‘victory’ over anti-trans legislation | Xtra Magazine
The Macdonald-Laurier Institute routinely publishes material targeting trans rights
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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 4h
What they’re not telling you.

Air traffic controllers are having sick outs.

Burbank airport was one of 2 airports that completely shut down yesterday because the air traffic controllers called in sick.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 5h
Children around the world have died because Trump and Musk needlessly destroyed USAID. These are some of their stories.

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AP: Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
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Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @canadahealthwatch.ca · 4h
UBC researchers lead national project to strengthen access to abortion care https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/ubc-researchers-lead-national-project-to-strengthen-access-to-abortion-care/

More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
Dr. Wendy Norman met with health minister Marjorie Michel before the funding announcement to discuss her research program.
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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 4h
PM Carney's Caught In A Bad Gangster Movie.

@atrupar.com @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social @acyn.bsky.social
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RichardJR @electricbluesfan.bsky.social · 4h
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🇨🇦 PM CARNEY'S CAUGHT IN A BAD GANGSTER MOVIE 🇨🇦

In a scathing analysis, Michael Harris argues that Prime Minister Mark Carney's meeting with Donald #Trump wasn't diplomacy—it was a shakedown by a gangland boss running a racket with no scruples.

An opinion for The Tyee
#CdnPoli #USpoli #Carney
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Mark Gos @markgos.bsky.social · 8h
The snowflakes are falling early this year.
Whiny MAGA freaks out over Super Bowl halftime show
Songs in Spanish? In America?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h
Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."
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Claire Beauchamp MD 🇨🇦 @clairebeauchampmd.bsky.social · 4h
Look I’m in Alberta, but I think this whole pipeline thing is insanity. I don’t want any of it. But we’re trapped here in this right wing Hellscape while they absolutely destroy our economy…
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Micah @rincewind.run · 4h
look I am not his audience and know very little about Bad Bunny but an extremely cursory google search tells me that he is in fact one of the most popular entertainers in the world today

this statement only works if by "broader audience" you mean "conservative white people"
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Andrew Mearns @mearns.bsky.social · 5h
lmao this dolt is beyond parody.
yeah Lee Greenwood, totally appealing to all audiences. you nailed it buddy
“Lee Greenwood for Super Bowl halftime show!” says the idiot
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 6h
This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 18h
Destroy all of your environmental regulations, or else!
CANADA Danielle Smith says she's giving Carney until Grey Cup to fix nine 'bad laws'
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 20h
They still don't get it.
They think they can come up to Canada and sweet talk us into buying their shit.
Ain't gonna happen.
Donald Trump said that there was nothing Americans needed from Canada.
We can start with you not needing money from our booze purchases.
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Cold shoulder from Canada is costly for American distillers struggling with global trade tensions
American distillers have gotten a costly cold shoulder from Canada
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 18h
Just have to take a beat to say that the people that have long warned about state violence and the militarization of law enforcement were right.
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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 17h
Cool @vibrantcalgary.bsky.social @jyoti4mayor.bsky.social @jeromyyyc.bsky.social @sonyasharpyyc.bsky.social #art #artists #yyc #yyccc #basicincome
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d
For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 1d
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 17h
💥 Act now! 💥
🔥 Methane is fueling #wildfires.
💨 It’s a super-pollutant heating our planet fast.
✍️ Sign @forourkidscanada.bsky.social 's letter for
urgent action
#cdnpoli #climateaction #climateactionnow #forourkids #emissions #pollution #cleanair
www.forourkids.ca/methane_poll...
Support Bold Action on Methane Pollution
www.forourkids.ca
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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 17h
To President #Macron, and all EU leaders:
As citizens from across the world, we call on you to stay true to your climate legacy and lead green! Protect our shared future and back a 90% #emissions cut by 2040! #climateaction secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
Make or break: climate ambition
Join this call for our future!
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d
WOW!

Alberta just got another approved referendum petition!

And this one calls for the practice of funding private schools with public money to be put to an end!

During the teachers strike!

Strap in Alberta, we’re going on a ride!

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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