Mary Stuart (she/her)
@marylouisestuart.bsky.social
Climate justice organizer & independent researcher. MA grad in Political Ecology. Interested in environmental/climate justice, degrowth, ecosocialism, climate mis/disinformation & conspiracy theories.
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Influential ‘Freedom Convoy’ group in Alberta is helping B.C.’s far right elect Conservatives ⋆ The Breach
Radical right wing group BC Rising is running candidates and mobilizing to get B.C. Conservatives elected in effort to ‘replicate’ Take Back Alberta’s approach
breachmedia.ca
From me in The Breach:
A far-right group in B.C. mobilizing to elect the Conservatives has been getting tips from Take Back Alberta.
I dive into who Take Back Alberta is, and how BC Rising is trying to replicate their success in BC.
breachmedia.ca/freedom-conv...
A far-right group in B.C. mobilizing to elect the Conservatives has been getting tips from Take Back Alberta.
I dive into who Take Back Alberta is, and how BC Rising is trying to replicate their success in BC.
breachmedia.ca/freedom-conv...
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There's a bit of data in here that I think will fly under the radar for most people. According to the AER, the oilsands used 257 BILLION litres of freshwater in 2024 alone. That's a 12% jump in freshwater use intensity from 2023. And that's without CCUS in the picture. #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #CCUS
The Pathways megaproject is a linchpin of the “grand bargain” energy deal signed by Ottawa and Alberta. Many questions hang over the project though, including how much water Pathways — or any next generation carbon capture initiative — will actually consume.
World's biggest carbon capture project could 'essentially drain Alberta', experts warn
Government-commissioned modelling of water use by the planned $16.5 billion Pathways CCS project, a linchpin of the energy deal signed by Ottawa and Alberta last month, concluded its use of the region...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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4/4: read the paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03077
check out the workshop website: acaworkshop.github.io
...and consider visiting our poster today, at 11:15am pacific time, if you're in San Diego!
check out the workshop website: acaworkshop.github.io
...and consider visiting our poster today, at 11:15am pacific time, if you're in San Diego!
Irresponsible AI: big tech's influence on AI research and associated impacts
The accelerated development, deployment and adoption of artificial intelligence systems has been fuelled by the increasing involvement of big tech. This has been accompanied by increasing ethical conc...
arxiv.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
4/4: read the paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03077
check out the workshop website: acaworkshop.github.io
...and consider visiting our poster today, at 11:15am pacific time, if you're in San Diego!
check out the workshop website: acaworkshop.github.io
...and consider visiting our poster today, at 11:15am pacific time, if you're in San Diego!
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2/4: this paper reviews literature on Big Tech's influence on the AI research community, and the downstream societal effects of the relationship. We discuss some of the outcomes of this influence, what forces motivate it, and potential solutions...
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
2/4: this paper reviews literature on Big Tech's influence on the AI research community, and the downstream societal effects of the relationship. We discuss some of the outcomes of this influence, what forces motivate it, and potential solutions...
Check out this paper my partner (co) authored on fundamental issues in AI research due to the field's entanglement with big tech.
1/4 Psyched to have our paper, 'Irresponsible AI: big tech's influence on AI research and associated impacts', at the Algorithmic Collective Action NeurIPS workshop today! This was a collaboration with @alexhergar.bsky.social, Alexandra Volokhova, and @dounia-kabakibo.bsky.social. Details below...
December 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Check out this paper my partner (co) authored on fundamental issues in AI research due to the field's entanglement with big tech.
"Reading this budget feels like scrolling on Instagram; one moment you see something horrifying, and the next you’re hit with the rich and glamorous flexing their fortunes."
rabble.ca/environment/...
rabble.ca/environment/...
This budget sucks: Doomscrolling through growing inequality and climate backsliding
The newly passed federal budget has put us in a catatonic state – but as young people, we’re used to this feeling.
rabble.ca
December 6, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"Reading this budget feels like scrolling on Instagram; one moment you see something horrifying, and the next you’re hit with the rich and glamorous flexing their fortunes."
rabble.ca/environment/...
rabble.ca/environment/...
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This pipeline will never be built. But trying to build it is still a tragic waste of time and money at a time when we have neither to spare.
Stop wasting money on pipelines. Give us real nation-building projects.
📰 My latest in the Toronto Star, as we wait to see the final details today of this MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada.
#Cdnpoli #EnergySky #Climate
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
📰 My latest in the Toronto Star, as we wait to see the final details today of this MOU between the governments of Alberta and Canada.
#Cdnpoli #EnergySky #Climate
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Stop wasting money on pipelines. Give us real nation-building projects
This week’s agreement between Ottawa and Alberta on a pipeline to B.C.’s north coast is the latest chapter in this weird, depressing tale of wasting tens of billions of dollars
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
This pipeline will never be built. But trying to build it is still a tragic waste of time and money at a time when we have neither to spare.
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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It's actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they're putting into childcare, into AI.
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
It's actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they're putting into childcare, into AI.
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?
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This is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era. It's a complete abdication of climate responsibilities, and while at least $3 billion in climate funding gets cut, taxpayer supports for oil and gas are set to grow.
Great breakdown @hadrianmk.bsky.social
Great breakdown @hadrianmk.bsky.social
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget
The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
This is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era. It's a complete abdication of climate responsibilities, and while at least $3 billion in climate funding gets cut, taxpayer supports for oil and gas are set to grow.
Great breakdown @hadrianmk.bsky.social
Great breakdown @hadrianmk.bsky.social
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Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
www.desmog.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com.
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South.
www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...
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“It was a lightning rod of hope. We brought in thousands of new members to this party, many of whom were completely disillusioned with politics.”
Emily Lowan’s victory is a sign that the climate movement still has the energy to capture voters. Hugh Chan writes. #bcpoli
Emily Lowan’s victory is a sign that the climate movement still has the energy to capture voters. Hugh Chan writes. #bcpoli
How a Zoomer Became Leader of the BC Green Party | The Tyee
Inside the campaign that scored a victory for 25-year-old Emily Lowan.
thetyee.ca
September 29, 2025 at 2:45 PM
“It was a lightning rod of hope. We brought in thousands of new members to this party, many of whom were completely disillusioned with politics.”
Emily Lowan’s victory is a sign that the climate movement still has the energy to capture voters. Hugh Chan writes. #bcpoli
Emily Lowan’s victory is a sign that the climate movement still has the energy to capture voters. Hugh Chan writes. #bcpoli
Really pleased to share a new article I wrote with my MA supervisor James Rowe & colleague Julia Weder. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/14/o...
Haida Gwaii shows how to resist Conservative fearmongering on Indigenous rights
Conservative misinformation is supported by a whole right-wing ecosystem that has settled on the argument that any progress on reconciliation means an assault on private property rights.
www.nationalobserver.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Really pleased to share a new article I wrote with my MA supervisor James Rowe & colleague Julia Weder. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/14/o...
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Hi, @jervaler.bsky.social. We met at the #CancelthePermits rally, and from what you may recall from my panel and speech, I am both an extremely politically motivated person and values aligned with BC Greens. I wanted to respond to this statement, as somebody who has (finally) completed verification.
Yesterday, a letter from a leadership contestant’s legal counsel was released to the media, indicating they are considering litigation over the party’s ID verification process. Here's interim Leader Jeremy Valeriote's statement:
bcgreens.ca/statement-fr...
bcgreens.ca/statement-fr...
Statement from Interim Leader on Membership Verification and Leadership Contest
The BC Green Party affirms its ID verification process for new members ahead of the 2025 leadership vote, ensuring election integrity and transparency.
bcgreens.ca
September 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Hi, @jervaler.bsky.social. We met at the #CancelthePermits rally, and from what you may recall from my panel and speech, I am both an extremely politically motivated person and values aligned with BC Greens. I wanted to respond to this statement, as somebody who has (finally) completed verification.
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NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.”
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
August 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.”
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza.
The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes.
(🎥 BBC News)
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The Committee to Protect Journalists say Israel has killed at least 186 journalists in the Gaza conflict. Israel denies deliberately targeting journalists. Israel also denies deliberately targeting children but has managed to kill or wound 50,000 of them.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza
Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The Committee to Protect Journalists say Israel has killed at least 186 journalists in the Gaza conflict. Israel denies deliberately targeting journalists. Israel also denies deliberately targeting children but has managed to kill or wound 50,000 of them.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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FUCK you @nationalpost.bsky.social.
This is unforgivable, traitorous shit from people claiming to be journalists.
How dare you accept this framing from a state that is SLAUGHTERING our colleagues.
How DARE you.
This is unforgivable, traitorous shit from people claiming to be journalists.
How dare you accept this framing from a state that is SLAUGHTERING our colleagues.
How DARE you.
August 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
FUCK you @nationalpost.bsky.social.
This is unforgivable, traitorous shit from people claiming to be journalists.
How dare you accept this framing from a state that is SLAUGHTERING our colleagues.
How DARE you.
This is unforgivable, traitorous shit from people claiming to be journalists.
How dare you accept this framing from a state that is SLAUGHTERING our colleagues.
How DARE you.
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reminder: climate fatalism becomes starkly absurd when you put it in literal, immediate and physical terms.
Oh no there's just no way we can ever stop handing billions in subsidies to this coal mining company. Damn, we're doomed. Guess we just keep on doin it
Oh no there's just no way we can ever stop handing billions in subsidies to this coal mining company. Damn, we're doomed. Guess we just keep on doin it
You realise "climate change is inevitable" is absurd when you reword it as "fossil fuels are inevitable" or "Exxon is inevitable" or "Rishi Sunak is inevitable"
It's a threat built of causes which we can identify and fight. Fatalism is pro-fossil. Be pro-fighting, instead ✊🏽
It's a threat built of causes which we can identify and fight. Fatalism is pro-fossil. Be pro-fighting, instead ✊🏽
July 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
reminder: climate fatalism becomes starkly absurd when you put it in literal, immediate and physical terms.
Oh no there's just no way we can ever stop handing billions in subsidies to this coal mining company. Damn, we're doomed. Guess we just keep on doin it
Oh no there's just no way we can ever stop handing billions in subsidies to this coal mining company. Damn, we're doomed. Guess we just keep on doin it
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Bear in mind that if you held up a sign saying "I support genocide", you would not be arrested under the Terrorism Act.
Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action".
This is real police state behaviour.
This is real police state behaviour.
July 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Bear in mind that if you held up a sign saying "I support genocide", you would not be arrested under the Terrorism Act.
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I’m Emily Lowan & I'm running to be the next leader of the BC Green Party. I’ve spent the last decade organizing for climate justice & Indigenous rights. Our movement needs a political vehicle to change the conversation: to centre the people, not the corporate lobbyists. youtube.com/shorts/1B-Ny...
Emily Lowan for BC Greens Launch
YouTube video by Emily Lowan
youtube.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
I’m Emily Lowan & I'm running to be the next leader of the BC Green Party. I’ve spent the last decade organizing for climate justice & Indigenous rights. Our movement needs a political vehicle to change the conversation: to centre the people, not the corporate lobbyists. youtube.com/shorts/1B-Ny...
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New outlets are literally giving more smoke to a candidate for A LOCAL ELECTION who wants to pilot 5 state owned grocery stores, fix vendor licenses and raise taxes on the rich by 2% then Trump literally doing fascism
June 27, 2025 at 12:23 AM
New outlets are literally giving more smoke to a candidate for A LOCAL ELECTION who wants to pilot 5 state owned grocery stores, fix vendor licenses and raise taxes on the rich by 2% then Trump literally doing fascism
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We have enough productive capacity to ensure good lives for 8 billion. And yet, because capital controls production, deprivation remains endemic. This new study shows *95%* of surveyed households in low/middle-income countries are denied access to basics.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Subnational survey data reveal persistent gaps in living standards across 75 low and middle-income countries - Nature Communications
Using subnational Demographic and Health Survey data from 75 low and middle-income countries, the authors show that many households lack access to decent living standards as basic prerequisites for hu...
www.nature.com
June 13, 2025 at 10:22 AM
We have enough productive capacity to ensure good lives for 8 billion. And yet, because capital controls production, deprivation remains endemic. This new study shows *95%* of surveyed households in low/middle-income countries are denied access to basics.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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What the fuck is this?
So we can spend money on defence and security but can’t “redistribute what we don’t have”
So what do we have for defence and security spending?
This is circular reasoning that makes no sense
So we can spend money on defence and security but can’t “redistribute what we don’t have”
So what do we have for defence and security spending?
This is circular reasoning that makes no sense
June 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
What the fuck is this?
So we can spend money on defence and security but can’t “redistribute what we don’t have”
So what do we have for defence and security spending?
This is circular reasoning that makes no sense
So we can spend money on defence and security but can’t “redistribute what we don’t have”
So what do we have for defence and security spending?
This is circular reasoning that makes no sense
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A federal wealth tax could raise half a trillion dollars for Canada.
Extreme wealth concentration is damaging our economy and society. Taxing the super-rich could fund transformative public investments to build a stronger, more resilient Canada.
New report: bcpolicy.ca/wealth-tax
Extreme wealth concentration is damaging our economy and society. Taxing the super-rich could fund transformative public investments to build a stronger, more resilient Canada.
New report: bcpolicy.ca/wealth-tax
A wealth tax could raise half a trillion dollars for a stronger, fairer Canada
New report on the effects of wealth inequality, the revenue potential of a wealth tax, counter-arguments and an outline of transformative public investments.
bcpolicy.ca
June 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
A federal wealth tax could raise half a trillion dollars for Canada.
Extreme wealth concentration is damaging our economy and society. Taxing the super-rich could fund transformative public investments to build a stronger, more resilient Canada.
New report: bcpolicy.ca/wealth-tax
Extreme wealth concentration is damaging our economy and society. Taxing the super-rich could fund transformative public investments to build a stronger, more resilient Canada.
New report: bcpolicy.ca/wealth-tax
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Last evening, #BCpoli passed 2nd reading of the controversial Infrastructure Projects Act in a narrow 46-44 vote, with two former Conservative MLAs (now independent) as no-shows.
My Bill 15 explainer with @zoeyunker.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...
My Bill 15 explainer with @zoeyunker.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...
Will Cutting Red Tape Make BC Great Again? | The Tyee
The province is facing opposition to legislation that would streamline approval for infrastructure projects.
thetyee.ca
May 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Last evening, #BCpoli passed 2nd reading of the controversial Infrastructure Projects Act in a narrow 46-44 vote, with two former Conservative MLAs (now independent) as no-shows.
My Bill 15 explainer with @zoeyunker.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...
My Bill 15 explainer with @zoeyunker.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...