According to Anna Johnston, a staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law, Carney's proposed #regulatoryrollback “would represent by far the worst evisceration of environmental law in Canadian history, far worse than what happened under Prime Minister Harper’s government in 2012.”

‘Worse Than Harper’: Regulatory Rollback Would Stop Canada from Assessing Project Impacts, Critics Warn

The Carney government is proposing a regulatory rollback that goes farther than the most deregulatory moments of the Stephen Harper era, with proposals that would make it impossible to assess the heal...

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ANNOUNCEMENT After two years of accountability failures, nine of us are suing the Calgary Police, City of Calgary & University of Calgary for brutality & Charter violations suffered May 9, 2024. We will provide a public statement at UofC TFLD Quad, 12:30pm today. drugdatadecoded.ca/for-immediat...

For Immediate Release: Calgary Police, City of Calgary and University of Calgary sued by demonstrators for excessive force, breach of rights in 2024

Drug Data Decoded writer/editor joins eight other plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking damages and vindication that Charter rights were violated during the brutal police operation to remove a peaceful demo...

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Kevin O'Leary's planned #AIdatacentre and gas-fired power plant is becoming even more massive, setting AB back 20 years in its emissions reduction efforts and diverting six million cubic metres of water/year from the Smoky River. www.theenergymix.com/earths-large...

‘Earth’s Largest’ AI Data Centre in Alberta Just Got Bigger

Kevin O’Leary’s massive data centre and gas plant planned in northwestern Alberta is expanding its footprint and leverage, securing a meeting with a federal cabinet minister while regulators dismiss a...

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In the wake of the provincial’s government’s use of the notwithstanding clause to bring an end to the Alberta teachers’ strike, the response from the labour movement is “not yet.” #abpoli #ableg edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

'Topple the government': Unions mobilize to battle the UCP but no general strike yet

Common Front says it will organize a provincewide labour stoppage "if necessary."

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if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

"Some may be concerned about the optics of a giant inflatable ghost hovering outside a hospital. Does it send the wrong message? Maybe. But when weighed against the message of 'We’re shutting down, and the closest emergency room is 178 miles away,' Casper here doesn’t seem so bad."

We’re Turning Our Emergency Room into a Spirit Halloween

Good evening, and thank you all for attending this important town hall meeting. Due to budget cuts, we’re excited to announce our groundbreaking me...

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#Wildfire smoke is about as deadly as prostate cancer, says Michael Brauer, co-author of a new Nature study. 🔥

Canada’s 2023 Wildfire Season Linked to 82,000 Deaths Worldwide | The Tyee

We need to reduce our smoke exposure, says one researcher. But that’s not possible for outdoor workers.

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The Psychological Totalization of Experience: Objectification and Subjectivity by Konstantinos Kontis I must be a mechanistic, predictable unit, in order for a psychiatric label or a psychological variable to be implemented on me smoothly. buff.ly/wkFoy9i

The Psychological Totalization of Experience: Objectification and Subjectivity

I must be a mechanistic, predictable unit, in order for a psychiatric label or a psychological variable to be implemented on me smoothly.

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🧵Why are seasonal childhood vaccination rates falling after the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic despite a mass increase of viral illness? @mmaroto.bsky.social @amykaler.bsky.social and I add some new understanding to this in our new paper published in The Sociological Quarterly

Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy Model Promises Liberation, Not Adaptation Psychologists propose a comprehensive new model for psychotherapy that integrates insights from critical, liberation, and decolonial psychologies. By Micah Ingle www.madinamerica.com/2025/07/crit...

Critical-Liberation Psychotherapy Model Promises Liberation, Not Adaptation

Psychologists propose a comprehensive new model for psychotherapy that integrates insights from critical, liberation, and decolonial psychologies.

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“Indigenous communities impacted by wildfires disproportionately experience adverse mental health outcomes partly because they often live in affected areas. That's on top of cultural trauma from being displaced [bc] land is integral to [their] identity & well-being[.]. www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Wildfire evacuations take an immense toll on the mental health of Indigenous people. Here's what could help | CBC News

Indigenous people living on reserves and in remote communities in Canada are disproportionately affected by wildfires, researchers have found. Those who study wildfire evacuations and others who provi...

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“Half of the study’s 1,800 adult participants are suffering depressive symptoms such as insomnia, fatigue, loss of appetite, feelings of guilt and worthlessness, and poor concentration, while one in four adult survivors are racked with anxiety.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Mental health and poverty remain a struggle for Maui wildfire survivors, new study says

Two years after the devastating fires, many lack access to food, stable housing, work and healthcare

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As Trump cuts climate adaptation funding, climate research & disaster relief, climate change & the devastation it causes doesn’t stop. It just piles on. The people working to build a sustainable alternative support. Please join Susanne Moser, Ph.D. for this powerful workshop. CEs available.

Five federal firefighters, who spoke anonymously because they are barred from speaking publicly, were asked if their agencies were ready for fire season. The answer was a resounding “no”. “If this turns out to be a major fire year, it’s going to be a shit show.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The US is woefully underprepared for wildfire season, say insiders: ‘The stakes are life and death’

‘Efficiency’ cuts across offices have left teams understaffed, firefighters underpaid and uninsured, and without adequate equipment

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For any who are interested, I’ve updated my spreadsheet for climate-related information in Alberta and BC. It includes tabs for websites, social media accounts, apps and more. 🧵

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looks like canada’s in for another summer of intense fires as our government talks about increasing oil production and building more pipelines

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Canada is already in it with big fires and evacs in the thousands. The country looks poised to have large fires on the landscape from now until the snows come. That means Canadian resources will be overextended and not available to help others. Also, probably leads to smoke drifting into the US.

The wildfire situation in the Prairies continues to rage on. Saskatchewan has called a province-wide state of emergency and Alberta Wildfire has issued a red flag warning, meaning wildfires could spread rapidly under the current weather conditions.

Wildfire situation in the Prairies continues to rage on | APTN News

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As wildfire season grows, it is critical to have access to emergency information: Download the Alberta Emergency App Look up alberta.ca/emergency Visit the Alberta Emergency Alert page on Facebook and X We all need to work together to keep Alberta safe! #albertafire #safety

My son's debut article ❤️✍️: "The immune system is a far too often undiscussed casualty of (wildfires), & long after the last embers of the LA infernos fizzle out, their invisible scars will remain ... the human body is left in a weakened & vulnerable state to infectious diseases" tinyurl.com/2s3vbans

The Invisible Scars of Wildfires

BY ESSEY AFEWERKI 57,000 acres of land in Los Angeles were razed in the span of 3 weeks from January 7th to 27th at the start of this year. The scorched earth across the Palisades and Eaton regions…

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‎AB Wildfire Status

‎See where wildfires are burning in Alberta and how they impact you. Get up-to-date information on wildfire conditions and hazard as well as a listing of advisories and bans across the province. Repo...

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I’m very pleased to be serving on the international advisory council of this important, ambitious, and highly original experiment in the re-making of global history: uhgi.org

Ukrainian History Global Initiative

Ukrainian history is central to global history, to an extent that can be hard to bear and hard to acknowledge

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Interesting piece. Started thinking about recent Finnish work suggesting a community resilience framework, which separates acute resilience (immediate response capacities) from basic resilience (e.g. more long-term adaptive capacity, social cohesion, and democratic stability). Curious of thoughts?

John Drury@profjohndrury.bsky.social · 2y ago

Social identity and place-based dynamics in community resilience building for disasters: An integrative framework www.researchgate.net/profile/Stef...

NEW: Our new global factsheets tool provides 8 key measures of climate attitudes, behaviors, and policy support and climate change audience segmentation for many countries across the world.

Global Climate Opinion Factsheets - Yale Program on Climate Change Communication

Factsheets on climate opinions, risk perceptions, and policy for 110 countries, territories, and geographic groups around the world.

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“Our task is to build a wide and deep movement, as spiritual as it is political, strong enough to stop these unhinged traitors. A movement rooted in a steadfast commitment to one another, across our many differences and divides, and to this miraculous, singular planet.”

Naomi Klein@naomiaklein.bsky.social · 2y ago

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

A huge honor to get to write something with my hero @naomiaklein.bsky.social. We wish it was a happier topic, but it's an urgent one. We dove deep into the apocalyptic fervor of the far right to issue a warning about the rise of End Times Fascism. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

As FEMA gets cut and the climate crisis escalates, the need for climate related disaster mental health will only intensify! Join us for our inaugural series! www.climatepsychology.us/cpa-workshop...

Dear Canadians: Ask yourselves what, and who, you value. This is apprehension, with medical experimentation, of and on your neighbours. It is no different from El Salvador, no different from a residential school. Justifying any erosion of human rights, for any group, is a slippery slope. Fight back.

Euan Thomson@drugdatadecoded.ca · 2y ago

NEW The Alberta government is going full MAGA with its Compassionate Intervention Act, which will strip people who use drugs of due process and force them into months-long medical incarceration. drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-ends...

"Albertans looking to get their 'elbows up' against MAGA may identify the MAGA threat now in plain sight in their own province: armed seizure of people deemed undesirable by the state and their rendition into incarceration without due process." #Alberta #Canada #Drugs #Policing #Incarceration

Alberta to eliminate due process for people who use drugs

The Alberta government is going full MAGA with its Compassionate Intervention Act, which will strip people who use drugs of due process and force them into months-long medical incarceration.

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