BC Government Quietly Kills $20-Million School Affordability Fund | The Tyee ‘Transformative’ program had allowed schools to cut fees and provide supplies to vulnerable students.

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A tale of two pension funds: one abandons net-zero, the other doubles down on climate action Canada's two largest pension funds are taking radically different approaches when it comes to sustainable investing. This yawning gap between the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Caisse de dép...

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Petition: Tell Canada to oppose the Mining Code and protect the deep sea from mining. Sign the Greenpeace petition to tell Canada to oppose the Mining Code and protect the deep sea from mining.

Canadian-based The Metals Company (@themetalsco.bsky.social) is pushing to mine the deep sea. Canada must double-down to #StopDeepSeaMining and oppose the Mining Code that would open oceans to irreversible damage. @greenpeaceca.bsky.social Add your name: act.gp/3ZXB5ll

Opinion | The $7 Billion We Wasted Bombing a Country We Couldn’t Find on a Map

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BC Admits It Won’t Come Close to 2025 and 2030 Climate Goals | The Tyee The province’s new climate report walks back last year’s positive forecasts.

In its last report, BC said its #climate policies were on track to meet its emissions targets.

This week it walked that claim way back. They're nowhere close.

My latest for @thetyee.ca

Inside an Australian Miner’s Brawl with Alberta Regulators | The Tyee Told to monitor pollution, Montem issued insults and legal threats, documents reveal.

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‘It makes me want to scream’: Nobel peace prize winner horrified by planned exits from landmine treaty Plans by five Nato countries to pull out of life-saving agreement are ‘stupid’, says Nobel laureate Jody Williams

‘It makes me want to scream’: Nobel peace prize winner horrified by planned exits from landmine treaty

Spring reminder, as people start to think about gardening: NEVER buy compost with peat it in (inexplicably still on sale). If it does not say "peat free" in big letters, do not buy it. Peat is incredibly valuable in peat bogs, for rare biodiversity and as a carbon store. Don't put it on your garden!

This Scientist Wants Us to Combat the Climate Crisis by Thinking Like a Woman The author of “Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequity to Combat Climate Change” has helped pioneer attribution science.

Read this interview of @frediotto.bsky.social by @jeffgoodell.bsky.social about climate change. Two smart people, one asking good questions and the other giving interesting answers. I’m proud to call both of them friends.

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

Capitalism sowing the seeds of its own destruction.

A step closer to the truth: IJF database exposes new details about Canada’s residential schools Thousands of pages detailing abuse and poor conditions are now public and searchable

Read the story here: theijf.org/residential-...

#cdnpoli #ResidentialSchools #RSHiddenStories

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

Want to Improve Schools? Education Assistants Have Ideas | The Tyee The Tyee interviewed three EAs about bettering students’ learning conditions.

“There’s an awful lot of support in schools that goes on behind the scenes, but education assistants are not part of that because there’s no funding for those hours.”

Tariffied As part of its ongoing crusade to roll back the clock and return America to some mythical golden age, the Trump-Musk administration has just launched a new wave of tariffs against China, Canada and Me...

New CAMPAIGN TRAILS post on Ghost about the horrific history of tariffs we're apparently intent on repeating.

As the president said, "Have fun!"

campaign-trails.ghost.io/tarri/

Fossil Fuel industry actively shaping climate education in Canada: report A new report has found evidence of a deliberate strategy by the fossil fuel industry to promote industry propaganda and viewpoints to obfuscate responsibility for the causes of climate change.

Fossil Fuel industry actively shaping climate education in Canada: report

Congrats to @cape-acme.bsky.social & @forourkidscanada.bsky.social on the release of this important report.
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Opinion: To counter U.S. threats, B.C. must not buy into the ‘drill baby, drill’ mentality at expense of First Nations and climate Clean water, food security, and healthy communities are how we will outlast Trump

To counter U.S. threats, B.C. must not buy into the ‘drill baby, drill’ mentality at expense of First Nations & climate.

Great piece here by Grand Chief Stewart Phillip & Glen Williams/Malii, president and chief negotiator of the Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs
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