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LL 🛶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇬🇱 Canadian mama bear born @322.8 ppm CO2. Cancer survivor. Living with gratitude & respect on the land of the Chonnonton, Anishinaabeg & Haudenosaunee Peoples. She/Her

In Kitchener, my phone has gone off now 3 times with red storm, hail and tornado warnings in the last 20 minutes. Hunkering down in the basement here, anyone know what is going on "up top"? One warning said "baseball or larger" sized hail. I truly hope this is an extreme exaggeration!

It's going to hurt for a while, but in the end it will make us stronger and more resilient. Canadians' quiet unity and identity runs much deeper than showy flag waving, and our strength is in our unity.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁@minibubbly.bsky.social · 2w ago

For the next while there is going to be some pain in our economy in #Canada, we have to remind ourselves who we are fighting for, our country, this land we all live on, our culture our identity, we are all united on thing, this is our country, our legacy, no one has a right to undermine that. 🍁🇨🇦🍁

We need to bring back the hatchback. The people don't want sedans. They don't want stationwagons. They don't want SUVs and crossovers. They want indestructible sporty little hatchbacks with carrying capacity that feels like a bag of holding.

All students deserve safe schools where they can thrive — and transgender youth are no exception.

shorturl.at/TKVW1 Species at Risk Act will become “meaningless” and “merely paper protection” if Carney exempts major project from what’s known as the “jeopardy test," which prohibits authorizing projects or actions that would harm listed species & their critical habitats needed for survival.

Scientists Warn Carney’s Changes Will Bring ‘Wilful Extinction’ | The Tyee

Proposed amendments to make building ports and pipelines easier could destroy entire species.

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Don’t forget this. “Foreign actors are attempting to undermine Canadian interests by interfering in Alberta's separatist debate…” “Actors from Russia and the US are attempting to promote separatist ideas in what researchers behind the report described as a threat to Canada's democratic integrity.”

US and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report says

Researchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".

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🌲 First Nations chiefs are calling on Carney and Smith to halt the proposed West Coast oil pipeline, citing climate impacts and inadequate consultation. CBC News examines the dispute as B.C. battles devastating wildfires. Can consultation be meaningful if the project is already advancing?

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“The climate emergency kills,” he said on Monday. “And that’s why it’s not enough to address the consequences, which we do; what we have to do is reduce its causes, anticipate its effects, and, consequently, better prepare our country to protect people’s lives.”

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved

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In 2021, Premier Doug Ford was personally presented with 20 recommendations to improve emergency management in northern Ontario. The auditor general later offered another 30. Little progress was made before the deadliest wildfire season on record. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-igno...

First Nations gave Doug Ford a wildfire plan. Ontario ignored it | The Narwhal

Indigenous leaders and the auditor general gave Ontario several emergency management recommendations over the years. Little progress was made

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It's not OK when people are surrounded by flames, road closures and flight cancellations due to fire and smoke and are left waiting for bureaucracy for evacuation. Is it a coincidence that most of the ppl affected are Indigenous? thenarwhal.ca/ontario-igno...

First Nations gave Doug Ford a wildfire plan. Ontario ignored it | The Narwhal

Indigenous leaders and the auditor general gave Ontario several emergency management recommendations over the years. Little progress was made

thenarwhal.ca

France plans to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050. “France announced a ‘first of its kind’ plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 & gas by 2050…The roadmap was published as dozens of nations gather for the first-ever international talks on how to transition away from planet-heating fossil fuels.”

France unveils plan to ditch all fossil fuels by 2050

France on Tuesday announced a “first of its kind” plan to phase out coal by 2030, oil by 2045 and gas by 2050 during a global conference aimed at breaking reliance on fossil fuels.

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