Patrick Canning 🇨🇦

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

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Remember what matters. Our lives are short, but the future stretches out forever. Everyone says "take care of yourself" but in my view, frankly, that is a juvenile approach to life. Take care of your children, of all children, of the future. Deprioritise your "self." Their future is in our hands.

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Which position? The terrible position that Carney was adopting until Trump torpedoed the deal by adding stuff even Carney at his most elbows down couldn't accept? Or a position that's actually good for Canada?

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The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

He did not compromise with fascists. This seems virtually inconceivable to Canadian politicians.

George Potter 🔶@georgepotter.bsky.social

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

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The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative 😎👏💙👏😎 Juice Media

"Digital crimes must be dealt with like real life crimes." Canada, anyone?

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

54 years on this planet and I still can't account for how shitty people are. Catch your breath, BC, we've got a fight ahead.

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I am predicting a very unstable minority government that lasts a year to 18 mos. But in that time Emily Lowan will be in the house, rocking it and holding people accountable, making for a very different election next time.

I am predicting a very unstable minority government that lasts a year to 18 mos. But in that time Emily Lowan will be in the house, rocking it and holding people accountable, making for a very different election next time.

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South Korea is betting big on clean energy with an ambitious plan to cut fossil fuel dependence. The plan would add 100 GW of renewables by 2030, accelerate EV adoption and cut emissions from heavy industry, all while improving energy security.

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and to all of creation.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social

We need to be way angrier than we are. I'm all for adopting the framing from the End Times Fascism book, namely that these people - the techbros - are traitors to the human race.

Mafia family, trying to create a mafia world.

Jeff Young@jefftheyoung.bsky.social

Not just a bombshell, a barrage of bombshells. "Jared promised MBZ that he’d push their agenda with Trump... "UAE's Mohamed bin Zayed (MBZ) and Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) of Saudi Arabia...put at least $2B into at least two bank accounts for Kushner." www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

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So the AI / Surveillance Centers are also big environmental disasters.

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An adviser to the Canadian PM said that one of the purposes of data centres is to create a market for fracked gas..

An adviser to the Canadian PM said that one of the purposes of data centres is to create a market for fracked gas..

John Kostyack@kostyack.bsky.social

Data centers solve two big problems for Permian oil drillers: excesses of water and fossil gas. Historically they've flared the fracked gas and injected the produced water into the ground, causing earthquakes. Now they expect data centers will burn all the gas and use the water for cooling.

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This is rich. #Eby/BC NDP are simply Conservatives minus the poisonous social rhetoric. They stuff pockets of profitable US oil and gas firms with our tax dollars while healthcare in crisis, care homes cancelled, post secondary floundering.

David Eby@davidebybc.bsky.social

If you’ve voted Green in the past, I’m asking for your support in this election. In 11 seats last time, the Green vote was the difference between electing a Conservative and electing a New Democrat.

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But @alexgoatcher.bsky.social you can rest easy #Carney will care for #Canada’s nature. I mean, his wife has a new job protecting oceans after he gutted Oceans Canada the same way. He’ll come up with another genius solution. Perhaps oil and gas drilling in parks to pay for their protection? #cdnpoli

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I firmly believe that if Eby gets the solid majority he seeks he will repeal or gut DRIPA. Only the @bcgreens.bsky.social will keep it as is.

Emily Lowan (she/her)@emilylowan.bsky.social

The BC Greens stand with Indigenous rights, with DRIPA, to confront hatred and disinformation, and to uphold Indigenous self-determination. Please see the full policy brief on our website for our full list of pledges: bcgreens.ca/statement-on...

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Replying to @ianboudreau.com

Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink and try Musk for crimes against humanity

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Forests are burning, like never before. Ice caps are melting, like never before. Ocean temperatures are rising, like never before But YOU support building more pipelines & fast tracking LNG that put BILLIONS of TONS of CO2 into the atmosphere? Im Voting GREEN! @bcgreens.bsky.social

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Receipts. 🧵 Guilbeault: "Worse than Harper". Me: Principles before party/leader. "Millions of Canadians who cheered on parliamentary intern Brigette DePape when she boldly engaged in silent protest against Stephen Harper's policy agenda now angrily cheerlead for the very same policy agenda!"

Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social

Millions of Canadians who cheered on parliamentary intern Brigette DePape when she boldly engaged in silent protest against Stephen Harper's policy agenda now angrily cheerlead for the very same policy agenda as Mark Carney repeatedly draws directly from Stephen Harper's playbook. 🧵1/

This is a climate election, and no one's talking about climate. British Columbia, Canada, is planning to add 36 mtpa of LNG to the world, the same amount as Iran, for the next 40 years. The Greens are the only party with a better plan

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From "we're the greenest province, we have a carbon tax!", to "we need to cut the carbon tax because the economy!" to "we're going to use taxpayer money to pay you to buy gas". Put a cowboy hat on, you'll fit in better.

David Eby@davidebybc.bsky.social

Up to $20 back in your pocket every time you fill up. Our plan cuts up to 30 cents a litre off gas by suspending part of the gas tax and reining in big oil’s profits at the pump. It’s one of the ways we'll make life more affordable, and how we build B.C. strong.

Trump is not only a Russian asset, but an asset of the corrupt side of the oil and gas industry.

If we want to show the world that aggression does not pay there also needs to be consequences for trump's illegal invasion of Venezuela and Iran, and embargo of Cuba.

Michael McFaul@mcfaulmike.bsky.social

If we want to deter a wider war in Europe, or a future war over Taiwan, we need to demonstrate that aggression does not pay. That means more weapons for Ukraine and more sanctions on Russia. Supporting Ukraine is not charity. It is in America's national interest. 10/

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When an LNG lobbyist smoothed Eby's path to NDP leadership and becoming Premier they got more LNG projects in return. Now real estate and AirBNB lobbyists are working to get him reelected. Eby has their back not British Columbians. #VoteGreen ricochet.media/politics/two...

ricochet.mediaTwo major electoral campaigns in Canada are being run by former Airbnb and real estate lobbyistsA revolving door of election campaign staff and political lobbyists is not in the public interest — a ‘layer cake of conflicts of interest’