Conor Curtis

A New ‘Fundamental Fairness’ Can Save Democracy, the Environment, and Canada As major media focus on negotiations between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Donald Trump, it’s the Canadian people who are our best line of defence. We need a new fairness to empower ourselves.

(2/2) As I wrote recently (in an article for @theenergymix.com) this doesn't solve the underlying problem that led us to that point and that will keep leading us to this point unless we fix it. But the above does help address the immediate crisis: energymixweekender.substack.com/p/a-new-fund...

If you want to protect Canada from Trump then the biggest strategic mistake to make is to start from the premise that Trump gives a *bleep* about #America or the American people...

My most recent post on this subject: conorcurtiswriting.substack.com/p/how-to-pro... #CDNpoli #Canada #USpoli #Tariffs

Bill 5, Dangerous Deregulation, Nature and National Identity - Sierra Club Canada Andrés Jiménez Monge of Ontario Nature about why Bill 5 is dangerous for deregulation beyond just the environment.

"What is a more beautiful way to form a national identity than around nature? Than around the ecosystem you live in and how to live a good life on that land?"
- Andrés Jiménez Monge on @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social The Environment in Canada podcast.
🎧: www.sierraclub.ca/bill-5-dereg...
#onpoli

"Imagine every Canadian engaged co-operatively with national political and economic systems. That should excite progressives and traditional economists alike, and might inspire other countries to follow a really promising and exciting example."

Read Conor's latest in The Energy Mix Weekender 👇

With huge thanks to @mitchellbeer.bsky.social for much insight and editing!

A New ‘Fundamental Fairness’ Can Save Democracy, the Environment, and Canada As major media focus on negotiations between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Donald Trump, it’s the Canadian people who are our best line of defence. We need a new fairness to empower ourselves.

A limit on extreme individual wealth above healthy, competitive rewards; With any extreme #wealth at the highest end of the spectrum clawed back and shared equally by all.

The proposal in my article for @theenergymix.com: energymixweekender.substack.com/p/a-new-fund... #CDNpoli #Canada #USpoli #US

The Environment in Canada - Harbinger Media Network A podcast about the environment in Canada (and sometimes elsewhere) by Sierra Club Canada. Topics include climate change, biodiversity, pollution, renewable energy democracy, and the Rights of Nature....

Pour cet épisode du podcast L'Environnement au Canada de @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social, j’ai reçu Sylvain Comeau, un jeune environnementaliste néo-brunswickois, comme invité pour discuter de la lutte contre les changements climatiques au Nouveau-Brunswick.

harbingermedianetwork.com/show/the-env...

(4/4) I respect there's nuance in every argument, but I have to say the nuance usually gets lost when headline reads 'we've lost the climate fight' - because most people only ever see the headline.

(3/4) The 'stop doing this organizing & only do this other type of organizing' singular solution thinking is why we haven't made as much progress as we could have. It's about having a full spectrum of resistance.

Your Community Can Drive the Transition to Renewables - Don’t Wait for the State! Podcast Episode · The Environment in Canada Podcast · 07/01/2025 · 27m

(2/4) Here's another podcast on how community action and political action for climate can be mutually reinforcing: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...

On Full Spectrum Resistance with Aric McBay Podcast Episode · The Environment in Canada Podcast · 05/14/2024 · 55m

(1/3) I'm so tired of 'either/or' nonsense & I'm tired of broad sweeping declarations about losing the #climate fight. We can pursue both changing politics & community action at the same time in a way that they're mutually reinforcing. A good podcast on this: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

(2/2) We have to remember Trump does not actually care about America or Americans. But his select rich friends in the U.S. do have some sway over him. So anything that impacts them specifically is likely to have more leverage.

US will impose 35% tariffs on Canadian imports, Trump says in letter New levies, apart from the 25% on auto parts and 50% on steel and aluminium, will come into effect on 1 August

When you concede to someone like Trump he will see it as weakness. Now would be a really good time to reinstate the digital services tax on U.S. tech companies.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... ##CDNpoli

The Environment in Canada - Harbinger Media Network A podcast about the environment in Canada (and sometimes elsewhere) by Sierra Club Canada. Topics include climate change, biodiversity, pollution, renewable energy democracy, and the Rights of Nature....

Je suis contente d’annoncer que je suis la nouvelle animatrice du podcast francophone l’Environnement au Canada pour @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social!

Pour mon 1er épisode, j’ai reçu le Dr Chúk Odenigbo pour discuter des feux de forêt dans les Prairies.

harbingermedianetwork.com/show/the-env...

People need to know about AI-generated disinformation flooding city councils to defeat climate policy. If wishes could come true, everyone following me would read, share, repost this story. @350.org @billmckibben.bsky.social @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social @sejorg.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org

Investors might prevent fossil fuel expansion Cautious investors might prevent fossil fuel industry from ramping up production after the U.S. presidency changes hands Jan. 20

(5/5) they can.

These projects of course always being 'just over the horizon, if only government would do this one last thing...' The reality is that exploration budgets are shrinking and oil and gas investors are prioritizing faster returns: www.theenergymix.com/oil-companie...

(4/5) If these projects are certified as national interest there will be leverage to try and attract public funding and concessions for oil and gas projects in general, to erode any sensible climate policy labelled as 'in the way.' And oil and gas corporations will make away with as much money as...

(3/5) Now there's some foreshadowing...

I do wonder if @mark-carney.bsky.social will see these faulty oil and gas projects for what they are: really bad investments. Or will he fall for framing that can only lead to more division in Canada. I suppose we shall see...

(2/5) after all the federal government will have hyped the projects as national interest. What was it the Premier of Alberta said about pipelines that 'if we can't attract private investment it will be because there were barriers and government will have build a pipeline' [with taxpayer dollars?]

(1/5) Getting flawed oil and gas projects labelled as "National Interest" projects is a good framing trap by the oil and gas lobby. Because when a lot of those projects fail, and they will, no one in Government will have the ability to say "well the project was flawed"... #CDNpoli

Reminder for @mark-carney.bsky.social: every time the #fossilfuel lobbyists come calling, think about all who have suffered the impacts of fossil fuel-driven #climatechange - & all who will, especially children.
It's time to act: implement the #EmissionsCap & ensure that Big Polluters pay.

I'm over here chatting with my climate heroes about #elxn45 results! Follow along to read what experts like @billmckibben.bsky.social @carobrouillette.bsky.social @jessiesitnick.bsky.social and @conorcurtis.bsky.social are saying about climate and energy on election night.

“For an election commonly framed as ‘not about the climate’ I’m seeing nature emerge as Canadians’ top source of national identity (far above even hockey),” said Conor Curtis (@conorcurtis.bsky.social), climate communicator and good friend of The Mix. “This election is very much about our identity.”

“People are really concerned about the threat the U.S. administration poses to key water bodies like the Great Lakes,” says @conorcurtis.bsky.social.

He predicts: “Water is going to emerge as a key sovereignty issue going forward... something people are very engaged with as an issue already.”

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"It's directly thanks to Gord that those climate survivors got their story out in Ottawa..."

Great to talk with Ken and Conor about some not great moves by the NS govt. we shall overcome and set this ship right , but it would be so nice if everyone was rowing together!

(2/2) Now, we are seeing that assimilation process play out in real time around U.S. 51st statism, and I hope it’s a wake-up call, because we can stop the process if we act quickly.

The annexation playbook borrows from climate denial tactics To defeat climate denial and 51st-statism, we need to show people how misinformation works.

(1/2) ‘Fake news’ emerged from climate denial like John Carpenter’s The Thing — assimilating new host issues as it went. The monster created by oil and gas corporations quickly evolved into a general tool for wealthy interests.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/20/o... #CDNpoli #Canada #NLpoli

(3/3) Next the #ParliamentaryBudgetOfficer will study diminishing job growth in the horse-drawn carriage industry, due to the rise of cars, without factoring in increased job growth in car production.

The #EmissionsCap report is deeply flawed without accounting for green economy growth benefits.