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With the U.S. waging war on Iran and the Canadian economy, Premier Wab Kinew on Friday singled out what he sees as the biggest threat to Manitobans’ livelihoods: the American president.
Philip Newell from CAAD
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📢 Civil society groups/NGOs: Tell Minister Dabrusin to attend the Santa Marta Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels so Canada can demonstrate climate leadership! Sign the open letter by March 18: https://loom.ly/PezRpTk
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Yesterday was Canada’s #OvershootDay, the date when Earth’s yearly resources would be used up if everyone lived like Canadians.
Our energy use is nearly 3x the global average, and we generate some of the highest waste per person in the world.
Overshoot Day is one date; what we do next matters.
As I wrote earlier this week, and others have since, these geopolitically driven supply shocks are going to remind customers in Europe and Asia about the unpredictability of fossil fuels.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/03/o...
We lobbied 900+ times 2010 -2018. At one point in 2016-2017 we had conservatives provincially and federally on board and NDP not fighting it. The fact is carbon pricing with rebates is a very powerful tool to get the economy off fossil fuels and that is why the fossil fuel industry killed it.
yes we were there
As long as they don’t lie, especially if it means lying will result in people dying. There has to be a accountability for disinformation if those are the rules then yeah for sure there should always be opposition to policies.
That is rationale the Liberals give - it can become propaganda and whether it is for the greater or good or not, it can be slippery slope.
Especially, "proactive, transparent impeccble communication."
💯% agree.
Many provincial governments are pre-empting pushback for their questionable-energy policies with TV, radio, print & social media campaigns.
The feds should have predicted the pushback🫷
Tobacco, sugar, gambling, fossil fuels - all things that are bad for us - will sell c/o education.
They would have been very small cheques in the beginning if monthly.
Definitely have cheques/bank deposits clearly labelled from the get-go.
The biggest setback was a massive, relentless, and highly funded disinformation campaign.
Preempt that with proactive, transparent impeccble communication.
It is a GINORMOUS lift to empower and educate enough people to be trusted local spokespersons for one climate policy. Here at CCL Canada we have one 0.25 paid person to do the work. Focus is not something we will lose until fossil fuels go the way of the dinosaurs.
If there had been no disinfo campaign or an artificial inflation crisis precipitated by oil speculators post COVID, would education had been needed?
That is why we just clumped them all together as top 4 reasons.
n.b. QC is the only province that retained a consumer price albeit without a rebate.
This is a useful set of carbon pricing policy lessons for any government or carbon pricing advocacy group.
Particularly on public communication and the attacks from the fossil fuel industry [+ lackeys].
Post-Mortem on the Loss of the Carbon Rebate - What do you think about this reflection?https://canada.citizensclimatelobby.org/post-mortem-on-the-loss-of-the-carbon-rebate/
🔥 Unmasking Fossil Fuel Disinformation
Philip Newell from caad.info
Tues., Mar. 10, 2026
5 pm PT/ 8 pm ET
✅ Learn how disinformation is used to block climate progress
✅ Discover tools to counter false narratives
Everyone in the world is welcome to join us
citizensclimate.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Denis and Donna at CCL Milton had their lobbying meeting with Kristina Tesser Derksen, MP for Milton East-Halton Hills South this week. 😀 It was a very positive meeting.😀
BREAKING: One of the world’s largest real estate corporations, Cushman & Wakefield, is risking its workers’ retirement funds by investing in climate-risky funds.
We’re highlighting a groundbreaking lawsuit to hold the company accountable in court. #GreenSky
The world is undergoing a profound rupture
PM Carney's "variable geometry"—building flexible coalitions of the willing—is the only viable path forward.
Colombia & the Netherlands will hold the first Conference on transitioning away from fossil fuels. #SantaMarta
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Alberta’s oil inheritance pilifered
Alberta's Heritage Fund
❌est 1976
❌$18.7 billion deposited $45.8 billion withdrawn
= no net savings
❌in 2025 worth $5,500 per capita
VS
Norweigan Sovereign Wealth fund
✔️ est 1996
✔️$2.9 trillion
✔️$510,000 per capita
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
Twice in 6 weeks our National Director are in The Hill Times, Parliament Hill's newspaper.
"There’s elements within that system that are playing dirty and are just trying to squeeze every last penny out of the taxpayer,” said Orlando.
Full Story:
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.
We mustn’t let this war do so.
Thanks to MP Viviane Lapointe for meeting with constituents in Greater Sudbury and supporting #TurnDebtintoHope. Appreciate your excellent questions and your offer to help put the global #debtcrisis on Parliament’s radar.
@vivianelapointe.bsky.social @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social @DebtJustice
Every year we have an annual general meeting that we call “Standing Our Ground”. This year‘s theme was the transformation of the economy will not be linear. If you only had time to listen to one video, it would be the first 2/3 of video number two. canada.citizensclimatelobby.org/standing-our...
He's not taking it well you guys
The tragic events in Tumbler Ridge have left us all searching for answers.Yes mental health, violent videos and systemic failures all were factors.
How does the anti-trans movement—fueled by fossil fuel money—contribute to violence and harm in our communities?
www.sudbury.com/letters-to-t...
Yesterday, Taylor, Emma & Juliana met with their MP @wadegrant.bsky.social, the Member of Parliament for Vancouver Quadra and Parliamentary Secretary for Environment and Climate Change Canada and Parks.
Kudos to these 3 amazing youth their climate work & MP Grant for welcoming them again