“3/4ths of disabled people don’t drive. Stop using us as an excuse for car dependency.” — @nondriver.bsky.social in collaboration with @urbantruth.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth Worth repeating. #UrbanTruth
Eric Doherty
@ericdoherty.bsky.social
Transportation Planner. #Climatejustice activist. He/him. Lekwungen Territory (Victoria Canada). @eric_doherty on Twitter https://ecoplanning.ca/ #yyj #ElbowsUp
“The province is trapped in a cycle of offering low funding for fresh business plans every few years,” he said. “It’s a complete shame, and the people that lose out are British Columbians and visitors to Victoria.” www.timescolonist.com/local-news/p... #yyj #bchist #Cdnhist
Former operator not surprised by closure of Victoria's Point Ellice House
The province says it is taking over the site, whose doors will close to the public on Aug. 21, and “reviewing options for reopening.”
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I can't believe that PM @mark-carney.bsky.social, who claims he wants to move Canada closer to Europe is building more pipelines, burning more carbon, instead of following the EU path and focusing on renewables and moving away from oil/gas. He needs to resign. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News
Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...
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Guardian Environment@environment.theguardian.com · 12h agoEurope’s rivers are running dry, and the knock-on effects are disastrous | Yiannis Baboulias
We have the technology to leave fossil fuels in the past. Less expensive & better in so many ways. Solar. Wind. Batteries. Electric buses. Electric trucks. Electric cars. Electric bikes and bike & roll lanes. Fast electric wheelchairs & mobility scooters too! #climateaction #bcpoli #urbantruth
Mr. @mark-carney.bsky.social, Stop the madness that is the fossil fuel production expansion you are pursuing. #ClimateFires #PhaseOutOilAndGasASAP
Eric Doherty@ericdoherty.bsky.social · 13h ago“As long as we keep burning #fossilfuels, temperatures will increase globally. And that will mean that these fire weather conditions will get worse and worse and worse” #climatesky #wildfire
"I remember how the economic policies of Ronald Reagan created mass homelessness, but if you forget that, you can imagine that #homelessness is inevitable" p25 @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
ICYMI: “The devastation stretches for more than a kilometre along the northwest shore of British Columbia’s Okanagan Lake, house after house reduced to scorched and twisted metal and grey dust.” www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/bc... - @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social #BCWildfire #BradleyCreekWildfire
‘Devastation’: Chief says about 230 homes destroyed by B.C. wildfire
The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says about 230 homes have been destroyed by a raging wildfire near Vernon, B.C.
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A study I co-authored in 2023 found ExxonMobil’s predictions of global heating over the following decades to have been mostly accurate, as skilful as independent academic and government models, and also very much at odds with its public statements on the matter. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘We can’t make it better again’: what Europe’s wildfires tell us about the climate crisis
In this week’s newsletter: As France and Spain battle huge fires in this summer of relentless heat, will it be enough to spur us to take action?
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“As long as we keep burning #fossilfuels, temperatures will increase globally. And that will mean that these fire weather conditions will get worse and worse and worse” #climatesky #wildfire
Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · yesterdayOne of the clearest descriptions of climate dynamics for laypeople that you’ll ever hear: “It will inevitably get worse. It will get worse and worse and worse.”
We are deciding whether we want to be a country of ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.
Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · 2d agoBREAKING — Another person died at Delaney Hall. The family of Edwin Lopez Cornejo (age 39) said he was not receiving the medications required to treat his diabetes, and blames his death on the lack of medical care (via USA Today). www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
There is NOTHING in the National CANADIAN interest in these pipelines and other related projects. Why is Canada using TAXPAYER $$ to pay for a project that NO PRIVATE COMPANY will invest in, but many private companies will reap the rewards from? WHY? This is blatant corporate welfare.
Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social · 23h agoDeliberately worsening the global climate crisis that's raging ever further out of control to temporarily benefit foreign oil industry shareholders is Mark Carney's personal definition of "in the national interest." This is ecocidal anti-leadership. 1/ environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p...
Many thanks to CBC Vancouver for a solid discussion on #wildfire, @mark-carney.bsky.social, and the false promise of carbon capture: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tUB...
Are wildfires becoming worse?
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
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The thing about this is the US is burning (and choking on wildfire smoke) because of fossil fuels. And don't forget the Epstein Files.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 19h agoOh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.
Au cours de la fin de semaine, plus de 5 000 Britanno-Colombien·nes ont dû fuir leur domicile en 24 heures, victimes de deux des quelque 130 feux de forêt qui ravagent actuellement la province.
Instead of spending at least $50 billion of public money on fueling more climate chaos, Canadians deserve a government that invests in building the green economy of tomorrow – creating good jobs, lowering costs, and protecting our future.
And for Canadians across this land, it is a kick in the teeth to call this climate bomb of a project “in the national interest”. It is in Big Oil’s interest for sure.
Alors que j'apprenais la nouvelle aujourd'hui ici en Colombie-Britannique, la fumée des feux de forêt obscurcit le ciel, nous pique les yeux et notre enfant se plaint d'un mal de gorge. Et nous sommes des chanceuses et chanceux. 🧵 ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/227...
L’oléoduc en voie d’être désigné projet d’intérêt national
Ottawa continue d'avancer dans le processus visant à désigner le projet de nouvel oléoduc vers la côte ouest du Canada comme étant d'intérêt national.
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As I received this news today here in British Columbia, the wildfire smoke blankets the sky, our eyes are burning and our kid is complaining of a sore throat from it. And we’re the lucky ones. 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Carney government moves toward listing West Coast pipeline as national interest project | CBC News
Canada’s federal government is advancing the process to designate the Alberta government’s proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a project of national interest. A notice published in the Canada G...
cbc.ca
Wildfires Rage Across 2 Continents as Shell Posts ‘Scandalous’ $9.8B Quarterly Profit www.theenergymix.com/wildfires-ra...
Wildfires Rage Across 2 Continents as Shell Posts ‘Scandalous’ $9.8B Quarterly Profit
As devastating wildfires continue to burn across swaths of Canada, the United States, and Europe, oil major Shell posted $9.8 billion in second quarter profits, more than double its earnings from this...
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"Fossil fuels are fanning the flames of this crisis. Expansion must stop. More coal, oil and gas will lead to a more combustible future. Unless we act – to protect people and tackle the root cause of the crisis – the dangers will become deadlier still.” - UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
if you don’t want more of these in your future, explain to your fossil fuel funded liberal and conservative MPs and MLAs why you don’t want more wildfires, worse wildfires, longer wildfires that are amplified and worsened by fossil fuel use versus clean, solar, wind, and batteries #cdnpoli #bcpoli
elcanaco.bsky.social@elcanaco.bsky.social · 3d agoIf anyone wonders why people in BC are so passionate about climate resilience and ending oil dependency, this is why. People evacuating Westside Rd in Vernon, BC. @mark-carney.bsky.social @avilewis.ca @davidebybc.bsky.social #ClimateCrisis #BCWildfire #VernonBC #cdnpoli #bcpoli #yyc #yeg #topoli
“The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says about 230 homes have been destroyed by a raging wildfire near Vernon, B.C.” cheknews.ca/devastation-... - @cheknews.ca #BCWildfire #BradleyCreekWildfire #OkanaganIndianBand #VernonBC #Wildfires
'Devastation': Chief says about 230 homes destroyed by B.C. wildfire
The chief of the Okanagan Indian Band says about 230 homes have been destroyed by a raging wildfire near Vernon, B.C.
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While homes burn here in BC, oil executives laugh. #ClimateCrisis #BCWildfire #cdnpoli #bcpoli #vanpoli
Tony Campari@tonycampari.bsky.social · yesterdayJust another casual reminder that you’re being laughed at by corporates because a) governments facilitate them and b) we don’t push back. Cost of living crisis, for you not for them.
ICYMI: “Residents in B.C.'s north Okanagan region say they had to leave their homes, possessions and in some cases their pets behind to escape a rapidly spreading wildfire near Vernon.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC News BC #BCWildfire #BradleyCreekWildfire #OkanaganIndianBand #VernonBC
'We're all pretty stressed out': Okanagan residents flee fast-spreading fire | CBC News
Residents in B.C.'s north Okanagan region say they had to leave their homes, possessions and in some cases their pets behind to escape a rapidly spreading wildfire near Vernon.
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Will gleefully take the opportunity to point out: the lack of a regional rail/bus network is an ENORMOUS GAP in our region. Montreal: EXO Toronto: GO Seattle: Sound Transit Miami (?): Trirail Vancouver: N/A Imagine one of these leaving Abby every 30m to downtown, Surrey Central and the Airport?
The Bus. From GO. The GO Bus.
YouTube video by GO Transit
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social · yesterdayI don’t know what the best highway between two cities is in British Columbia. But I do know that Langley to Abbotsford is the worst.
Big Oil is raking in record profits while the rest of us are struggling to heat our homes and cover our transportation costs. We must electrify our future and phase out oil dependence. Demand Powerlines not Pipelines: 350.org/canada/no-pi... Later is Too Late @seniorsforclimate.bsky.social
No Pipelines: People and Planet over Profit
Carney's using Trump as an excuse to push through new toxic tar sands pipelines and gut key federal climate policies. This puts us all in danger while making Big Oil richer. We've got to fight back! L...
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Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
OTTAWA - Pollsters report a split among Canadians over the idea of higher tax on the assets of wealthy individuals, though support skyrockets after noting that Kevin O'Leary has vowed that he will res...
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