Patrick Canning 🇨🇦
@patrickcanning.bsky.social
Climate litigation. Lawyer, husband, girl dad. Every inch of the Earth is worth fighting for. No Xers. No AI. Work: https://patrickccanning.com/ Climate law blog: https://feeltheheat.blog/ LLM (Lewis & Clark). Not legal advice
The most important post I saw today. We don't just fight for the moment, but the future too. To show our children how.
Federica Genovese@fgenovese.bsky.social · yesterdayA propos of nothing: my grandfather was a politician who spent the last stretch of his career during the Berlusconi ascendance years. he'd say you can lose and lose again, but the most important act for anyone involved in politics is to preserve the seeds of anti-fascism for the next generation.
One of Canada’s largest newspapers published what read a whole lot like an incitement to violence against NDP Leader Avi Lewis, prompting widespread condemnation. Yet for some reason, there appears to be all but radio silence from mainstream Canadian media. Here's what I found:
If you're PO'd in BC about the new pipeline, remember: David Eby AGREED to it, in exchange for funding and approval for his pet LNG projects:
Canada-British Columbia Cooperative Prosperity Agreement
PrefaceBritish Columbia and Canada are partners in a period of great consequence for our country. The world is changing rapidly. In response, we are focused on what we can control: building an afforda...
pm.gc.ca
Is this the name for why I can't just accept (waves arm) all this?
Cheer Captain@cheercaptain.wang · yesterdayHey 4 Gen Xers with oppositional defiant disorder in a punk band, can you get on the same page vis a vis messaging?
today's essential read for all Canadians. “Human rights and respect for constitutionally protected Aboriginal rights and title, in addition to Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination, must not be spun as inconveniences to Canada’s economic aspirations,”
Whose Nation Is Being Built?
Carney’s first “national interest” project is an oil pipeline through Indigenous territories. Consent was not part of the announcement.
indigenousinsider.substack.com
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
FOX 5 DC | Local News, Weather, and Live Streams | WTTG [Unoffi…@fox5dc.com.web.brid.gy · 3d agoThe reason for this sales pitch is that those (rights) are the only obstacles Carney can't delete with his compliant liberal caucus..
🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦@jvipondmd.bsky.social · yesterdaytoday's essential read for all Canadians. “Human rights and respect for constitutionally protected Aboriginal rights and title, in addition to Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination, must not be spun as inconveniences to Canada’s economic aspirations,”
If your feminism doesn’t include MMIWG @julieslalonde.bsky.social, you are a bystander.
Virtually all media in Canada has been bought and replaced with clapping seals.
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 5d agoLol, and this was the ONLY QUESTION on this topic. Luckily he answered with spin about the environmental impacts too, otherwise that would have gone totally unaddressed in the Q&A. No wonder Canadians are so misinformed!!
2 key legal changes since TMX, re the new pipeline: 1 - ministers can now exempt anyone from any law, other than the criminal code 2 - "national interest" designation comes with automatic approval for all other permits - species at risk act, etc (a long term big oil wishlist item)..
Lill@drlw.bsky.social · 2d agoLiving near this disaster for whales and the environment is 🤮 😢. "There is no excuse for this reckless project that will deepen the climate crisis, [and] put endangered Southern Resident Orca Whales at risk of extinction." environmentaldefence.ca/2026/10/01/s...
Some thoughts from May 2021 — and an article to go with it. This nightmare was preventable. They didn’t want to stop it. Article: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-public-f...
Churchill in 1939, "we're gonna buy jets from Germany, they're really good, and they promised they wouldn't do anything funny to them.."
David Hamer@davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 3d agoThe Gripen/F-35 jet fighter issue is one in which, to coin a phrase, politics and the democratic will have to trump the generals and commodores. One doubts 🇨🇦Canadians will ever forgive a government or political party that buys more planes from the 🇺🇸Nazis. And I’m a Liberal. @mark-carney.bsky.social😠
For Carney's "we can't afford to tackle climate change" bs: Economist Joseph Stieglitz; "When the US was attacked during the second world war no one asked, “Can we afford to fight the war?” It was an existential matter. We could not afford not to fight it. The same goes for the climate crisis."
The climate crisis is our third world war. It needs a bold response | Joseph Stiglitz
Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilisation is at stake
theguardian.com
It’s astounding this isn’t the only thing people are talking about. It shows how much power mainstream news, who are blacking out the climate element of this El Niño, still holds. #ClimateCrisis
Prof Bill McGuire@profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 4d agoMind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December
Honduras' Garifuna people are facing forced displacement from their own land in violation of international court rulings. On this week's The Spill, @ninalakhani.bsky.social talks with Karen Spring from the Honduras Solidarity Network about where the reality TV show Survivor fits in. lnk.to/TheSpill
Drilled: The Spill
Drilled is a true-crime climate change podcast exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives built decades of climate denial and delay. The Spill is our new weekly show to bring you news...
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Carney, the economic genius, is pumping our public money into a losing bet.
Clean Energy Canada@cleanenergycanada.org · 5d ago"The government’s huge subsidization of this project lays bare a reality unfolding across the world economy: Fossil fuels aren’t just losing to clean energy. They’ve lost. In fact, the difference is now a trillion-dollar one," writes Clean Energy Canada's Rachel Doran. #cdnpoli
And remember the Great Hack took place before AI, they can do this on a massive scale now. The great hack happened, there were basically no consequences, and now it's happening at scale. Remind me, why do we need all these data centres?
🇨🇦 Novid Scotia@novidscotia.bsky.social · 3d ago💯 The Great Hack is required viewing. Especially now that we see what Brexit has done to the UK & what Trump has done to the US. youtu.be/iX8GxLP1FHo
“This will be hard-fought in the court rooms, and if necessary, with boots on the ground”, says UBCIC Grand Chief Stewart Phillip. If this government tries to build a billion-barrel bitumen pipeline though our home, MY boots will be there too. No more pipelines. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
First Nations along Pacific Link route denounce lack of consultation
A First Nation along the route of the proposed West Coast Oil Pipeline (now called Pacific Link) says it’s considering court action.
aptnnews.ca
40 dead. But, yeah, let's do another pipeline.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4d agoBangkok at breaking point as floods turn streets into stagnant lakes
Nesika's thrilled to launch the Arnold Peters Legacy Scholarship in partnership with UBCIC. Apply at: www.nesikasociety.org The deadline is Oct. 31, 2026.
We cant afford to fight climate change But theres always money to make it worse
Patrick Canning 🇨🇦@patrickcanning.bsky.social · 4d agoFor Carney's "we can't afford to tackle climate change" bs: Economist Joseph Stieglitz; "When the US was attacked during the second world war no one asked, “Can we afford to fight the war?” It was an existential matter. We could not afford not to fight it. The same goes for the climate crisis."
Google the most respected economists in the world.
Patrick Canning 🇨🇦@patrickcanning.bsky.social · 4d agoFor Carney's "we can't afford to tackle climate change" bs: Economist Joseph Stieglitz; "When the US was attacked during the second world war no one asked, “Can we afford to fight the war?” It was an existential matter. We could not afford not to fight it. The same goes for the climate crisis."
For Carney's "we can't afford to tackle climate change" bs: Economist Joseph Stieglitz; "When the US was attacked during the second world war no one asked, “Can we afford to fight the war?” It was an existential matter. We could not afford not to fight it. The same goes for the climate crisis."
The climate crisis is our third world war. It needs a bold response | Joseph Stiglitz
Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilisation is at stake
theguardian.com
If you're PO'd in BC about the new pipeline, remember: David Eby AGREED to it, in exchange for funding and approval for his pet LNG projects:
Canada-British Columbia Cooperative Prosperity Agreement
PrefaceBritish Columbia and Canada are partners in a period of great consequence for our country. The world is changing rapidly. In response, we are focused on what we can control: building an afforda...
pm.gc.ca
AI in Canada is an investment for investors, and the data collection industry. Brittany Kaiser said in The Great Hack that data is the most valuable business on Earth.
AI data centers: an investment in what, and for whom? - The Hill Times
Prime Minister Mark Carney is selling Canadians on AI sovereignty while selling investors on returns. Only one of those pitches comes with a public record.
hilltimes.com
