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Conor Curtis
@conorcurtis.bsky.social
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Comms Director at Sierra Club Canada / MA Policy / BA Hist. / fmr manager at a food bank / writer / podcaster from Corner Brook NL. My Views. Wealth limit, direct redistribution: https://energymixweekender.substack.com/p/a-new-fundamental-fairness-can-save
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Vance is using a tactic that was developed by fascists to destroy democracies: you create a hatred of an 'other' - they dont care who - & you push until democracy collapses.

See @coolzonemedia.bsky.social / @iwriteok.bsky.social's podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #CBC
November 21, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Pete Hoekstra doesn't get why we are mad about 51st state threats. He also doesn't understand what foreign interference is.

Meanwhile oil & gas corps want to 'strengthen ties' between Canada & the U.S. Canada being more dependent on the U.S. is their business plan.

#CDNpoli #TheResistance #ABpoli
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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(1/n) Humans will always inherently cooperate but we will also always inherently compete. We wouldn't stop just because of a limit on wealth that prevents multi-billionaires from appearing, because we do NOT compete to become multi-billionaires...

#Inequality #Wealth #WealthGap #Mamdani #Musk
Humans will always inherently cooperate but we will also always inherently compete. We wouldn't stop just because of a limit on wealth that prevents multi-billionaires from appearing, because we do NOT compete to become multi-billionaires. We won't stop competing because everyone is fed and has a roof, because we do NOT compete, inherently, to avoid starvation. We compete, inherently, for the shallowest of reasons: to be at least slightly more wealthy than our neighbour and to have nicer things or more prestige, and our neighbour competes to be at least slightly more wealthy than us. If we don't compete in terms of wealth we would just find a different thing to compete over. Give us the 'garden of eden' and we will pick the apple from the tree. But neither are we inherently greedy. Most of us understand that our desire for more should have a limit and feel compassion: redistribution measures exist throughout history and societies for this reason. Democracy is founded on the idea that no one person, or small group, should have too much power. So, even with a wealth limit there will always be a force pushing up on that limit trying to make it higher. One needs a balancing force pushing down on the limit in order to establish an equilibrium. And thus the direct equal redistribution of any extreme wealth above a set limit as shares - like in a cooperative. A counterbalancing incentive for the limit to go down, not just up. Everyone has a share in the limit, a stake in ensuring inequality does not get out of hand, even as everyone also inevitably tries to accumulate more individually - thus also exerting a force upwards on the limit's bounds. One way or another, the argument that our current economic system "isn't perfect but is the best we've got" has become nothing more than a lazy excuse to avoid dealing with a existential issue of extreme wealth inequality. More here: https://open.substack.com/pub/energymixweekender/p/a-new-fundamental-fairness-can-save
November 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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(1/2) Next #SovereigntySaturdays edition of The Environment in Canada Podcast via @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social will look at Trump's attempts to influence the reporting of the IEA & why no, oil/gas demand will NOT increase through 2050. It will plateau this decade.

#CDNpoli #CDNmedia #COP30 #IEA
No, oil/gas demand will NOT increase through 2050 but will plateau this decade. Tune in Saturday to our Sovereignty Saturdays episode of The Environment in Canada Podcast
November 13, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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"Renewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade according to the world’s energy watchdog, making the transition away from fossil fuels “inevitable” despite a green backlash in the US & parts of Europe: www.theguardian.com/environment/... #CDNpoli #USpoli #COP30 #CDNMedia
"Renewables will grow faster than any major energy source in the next decade, according to the world’s energy watchdog, making the transition away from fossil fuels “inevitable”, despite a green backlash in the US and parts of Europe. The world is expected to build more renewable energy projects in the next five years than has been rolled out over the last 40, according to the flagship annual report from the International Energy Agency (IEA)."
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Carney's list is likely to include the Ksi Lisims liquified natural gas project in British Columbia.

As we detail here there is no economic future for LNG & #LNG projects are dead ends as we enter a global oversupply: www.sierraclub.ca/lng-national...

#KsiLisims #CDNpoli #BCpoli #CDNmedia
Nation-building projects likely to include the Ksi Lisims liquified natural gas project in #BritishColumbia. As we detail here there is not economic future for LNG and LNG projects are dead ends especially as we enter a global oversupply: https://www.sierraclub.ca/lng-national-interest-canada/ #KsiLisims #Canpoli #BCpoli #Carney
November 11, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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Is it not completely obvious that Elon Musk is really just LARPing as Peter Weyland from Alien?

I mean I would compare Trump to the Alien creature Weyland (almost) unleashed on humanity for his own benefit, but that feels unfair to the Aliens from the Alien franchise somehow. #USpoli #ElonMusk
Is it not completely obvious that Elon Musk is really just LARPing as Peter Weyland from Alien. Tesla shareholders approve $1tn pay package for Elon Musk
November 8, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Today's #SovereigntySaturdays episode looks at Budget 2025 as a case study in how wealthy interests are trying to weaken Canada. We look at the good and the bad, and focus on what you can do.

Listen here: www.sierraclub.ca/the-real-dee...

#CDNpoli #Budget2025 #TheResistance #ElbowsUp #NoKings
November 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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(1/n) @mark-carney.bsky.social, you realize if you empower oil & gas corporations to lie they are going to use that power to undermine our democracy right? Trudeau also thought he could make a bargain with them...

#Budget2025 #Budget #CDNpoli #Canpoli #ClimateCompetitivenessStrategy #Greenwashing
Greenwashing regulations help keep Canadian democracy safe. And weakening them makes zero sense for anyone. Picture of Ottawa.
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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(1/2) If you're going to listen to anything ahead of today's budget I'd recommend this: www.sierraclub.ca/emissions-ca...

It's an interview with Canadian climate impacts survivors about the need for an #EmissionsCap on oil and gas corporations. #Budget #Budget2025 #CDNPOLI
An interview with Canadian climate impacts survivors about the need for an Emissions Cap on oil and gas corporations. Budget 2025 #CANPOLI
November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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I overheard this recently from someone in the physical sciences: "We should just go back to everyone having empires. That way we wouldn't have a war every two years."

The part of me that did a historical studies degree:
Picture from Futurama with the text "I don't want to live on this planet anymore."
November 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Looking at the way climate denialists use social media is insightful. Whether you choose to stay on platforms like Meta or X or leave, this episode looks at what we can learn from their tactics: www.sierraclub.ca/oligarch_soc...

Also accessibility aspects of digital activism #NoKings #TheResistance
Oligarch Social Media Platforms: Stay, Leave? OR Misuse… The Environment in Canada Podcast episode 79 a sovereignty Saturdays sub-series episode. Text on a background of code from the movie The Matrix with a choice of red pill or blue pill presented. #SovereigntySaturdays
November 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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(1/n) "Just months ago, the mill shut down during a raging provincewide wildfire season."

When I started my MA thesis 10 years ago I knew the impacts of #ClimateChange in NL would be severe. Even I'm surprised at how severe and how rapid, including in my hometown of #CornerBrook. #NLpoli #CDNpoli
Corner Brook needs months of rain to restore paper mill reservoir, Kruger says Newsprint production will temporarily halt on Monday Alex Kennedy, Maddie Ryan · CBC News · Posted: Oct 30, 2025 12:16 PM EDT | Last Updated: October 30
October 31, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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"During its offensive in the territory, where a UN commission of inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud providers to store & analyse large volumes of data & intelligence information"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #Google #Amazon
October 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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I don't know if @theguardian.com put these three articles next to each other on purpose on their front page. By you can now see how completely ridiculous and out of depth one of Bill Gates' statements is in one short glance.

#COP30 #ClimateChange #ClimateAction
October 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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It might just be me, but I feel like Canada isn't the problem when it comes to Canada-U.S. relations...
#USpoli
October 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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"What remains unclear is what exactly about the negotiations with Canada has been so frustrating to Trump."

It's quite simple looking at all the factors together. He's upset we're not willing to be his 51st State: neither in title nor in lack of autonomy.

#CDNpoli #Canada #ONpoli #USpoli #Trump
"What remains unclear is what exactly about the negotiations with Canada has been so frustrating to Trump." It's quite simple looking at all the factors together. He's upset we're not willing to be his 51st State: neither in title nor in lack of autonomy. #CDNpoli #Canada #ONpoli #USpoli #Trump
October 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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Good to see the ads will continue airing. Canceling the ads at this point (no matter what you think of the ads as an initial tactic) would signal weakness.

Appeasing Trump in this moment would be a bad idea, it would only embolden him. #CDNpoli #ONpoli #USpoli #Reagan #Trump #WorldSeries
October 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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(1/n) If there's a benefit to him Trump would have found a reason to cancel trade talks one way or the other. I seriously doubt this ad had anything to do with it. Someone in #Trumps inner circle, or himself, stands to benefit financially from the resulting chaos #CDNpoli #ONpoli #TradeTalks #USpoli
October 24, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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(1/n) Another #CBC News coverage problem here: To many people this will read as if U.S. are investing in the expansion of Canadian #oil&gas. But this line is most telling:

“We see these companies generating a lot of cash and returning almost all of it to the shareholders,” said Samra...

#CDNMedia
October 20, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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How extreme inequality leads to the rise of #authoritarianism & how we can stop it - a special #podcast episode for No Kings Day: www.sierraclub.ca/no-kings-ine...

#NoKings #NoKingsDayOct18th #NoKingsDay #CDNpoli #Canpoli #Canada #SovereigntySaturdays #USpoli #USpolitics #Inequality #Wealth #Kings
Do you want kings? Because that's how you get kings? A No Kings Day Special Episode of Sovereignty Saturdays The Environment in Canada Podcast
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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A #WealthLimit on extreme individual #wealth needs #Robinhood transparency: With #ExtremeWealth at the highest end of the spectrum clawed back & shared equally via direct #Redistribution (equal shares): energymixweekender.substack.com/p/a-new-fund...
#NoKings #CDNpoli #USpoli #Inequality #Oligarchy
A #WealthLimit on extreme individual #wealth needs #Robinhood transparency: With #ExtremeWealth at the highest end of the spectrum clawed back & shared equally via direct #Redistribution (equal shares): https://energymixweekender.substack.com/p/a-new-fundamental-fairness-can-save #NoKings #CDNpoli #USpoli #Inequality #Oligarchy
October 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Worried about what's happening in the U.S.? Me too. Our new #Sovereignty Saturdays #Podcast is an action-item filled chance to feel more #Empowered about making a difference in this moment.

Because beyond the shock there's work to be done: www.sierraclub.ca/sovereignty-... #CDNpoli #ABpoli #USpoli
Worried about what's happening in the U.S.? Me too. Our new #Sovereignty Saturdays #Podcast is an action-item filled chance to feel more empowered about making a difference in this moment. Because beyond the shock there's work to be done: https://www.sierraclub.ca/sovereignty-democracy-canada-annexation/ #CDNpoli #ABpoli #USpoli
October 11, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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(1/2) A lot more happened than this, including a declaration of war against 'the enemy within' which was clearly defined as anyone who opposes Trump or supports a peaceful transition of power. As well as an open invitation and plan to test and use military force against American civilians.
September 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Canada will be the next target if Trump attempts & succeeds at a military takeover of the U.S. and enforces a dictatorship. The most strategic thing we can do right now as Canadians is support those Americans peacefully resisting Trump.

LinkedIn post here: www.linkedin.com/posts/conor-... #CDNpoli
September 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM