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Tell Carney: No Subsidies for LNG! Join students across Canada taking action to demand: no public money for climate chaos! Prime Minister Mark Carney and his government are gearing up to spend billions of dollars on liquefied natural ...

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Tell the Prime Minister: No Public Dollars for LNG!
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“The recent epidemic waves have exposed the vulnerability of our social infrastructure to disease dissemination, and additional engineering controls focused on airborne pathogens are needed. The COVID-19 pandemic, a resurgence of endemic respiratory viruses…

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NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.

All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...

today's essential listen.
Really fascinating discussion, and a super important one.

Big Oil's top lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute, has reported talking to members of Congress about draft legislation to stop state climate lawsuits.

What a coincidence that Rep. Harriet Hageman happens to be drafting legislation to do exactly that. 🙄

Iranian attack on the BAPCO refinery in Bahrain

not proud of this.

Russia Is Big Winner as Iran War Drains Supplies That Ukraine Needs The conflict is draining supplies Ukraine needs for its defense, while surging oil prices are boosting the Russian economy.

By attacking Iran, Trump has degraded Ukraine’s ability to defend itself AND jacked up the price of oil that Putin can sell.

Gift link www.wsj.com/world/europe...

BYD’s Second-Generation Blade Battery Makes Western EV Tech Look Ancient The battery can add a staggering amount of range in under 10 minutes. Here's just how quick it is, and how it compares to the best Western designs.

On a 1,500-kilowatt charger, these batteries added over 500 miles of indicated range in ten minutes.

Yeah, this clip will certainly be shown as evidence at the trials.

Alberta’s Tax Advantage Is Being Paid For by Your Property Tax Bill I am sitting here running code to pull and process British Columbia property tax data for a project Gillian Petit and I are doing on property tax regressivity across Canadian provinces — work that …

Alberta Budget 2026 didn't raise taxes. It just raised your property taxes — the one tool the province left municipalities, then spent years criticizing them for using. Wrote about it.

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‘At first, she couldn’t come off the oxygen long enough’: the film that gives Marianne Faithfull one final thrilling performance In new docu-drama Broken English, the much misunderstood singer looks back at all her past selves – and gives a performance that moves her audience to tears. Its makers relive an extraordinary shoot

Faithfull grows sombre when shown a clip of herself at 60 declaring that she loved being that age, feeling healthy and philosophical about things. “Now I’m less philosophical. I hate what’s happened to me. Covid did this.”’

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The Iran War and the Climate Emergency CCNow will be joined by Rawan Damen of ARIJ, Nina Lakhani of Drilled, and AJE's former managing director, Giles Trendle.

🚨 Iran webinar alert

War makes climate change worse — and vice versa. Join CCNow on March 5, for a rapid response discussion about the US-Israel attacks on Iran and the way climate change threads through conflict.

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NEW: Reporting from Postmedia and newly disclosed briefing materials at today’s special Council meeting outline the scope of the provincial property tax increase. Cities like Chestermere will see increases as high as 32%, making this the largest property tax increase in Southern Alberta’s history.

In this @longcovidanswers.bsky.social podcast episode, Dr. Erica Spatz talks about Covid's cardiovascular impact, diagnostic testing, research, and more. Watch the full episode at covidsociety.ca/priorities/l...
#LongCovidHeartbeats #LongCovid #ILCAD2026 #LongCovidAwareness #hearthealth

Don’t look up

How broadcast TV networks covered climate change in 2025 Corporate broadcast networks again reduced climate coverage in 2025, marking the third year coverage has declined since the networks' high-water mark of 23 hours of reporting in 2022. A Media Matters…

New analysis from @mmfa.bsky.social finds that US TV news coverage of climate change dropped 35% from 2024 to 2025.

Long-COVID Sufferer Awarded Nearly $1M After Employer Refused to Let Her Work From Home | Law.com A jury in Nassau County awarded $954,000 to a longtime employee of Stony Brook University Hospital Blood Bank.

A woman with Long Covid won almost one million dollars in a lawsuit against her employer who refused to allow her work from home accommodations.

May this set a precedent.

Remote work should be accessible to all who need it.

It’s a game changer for people with disabilities.

Electric car sales edge above petrol in EU for first time Sales of fully ​electric cars surpassed those of petrol-only vehicles in the European Union for the first time in December, data from ‌the auto industry group ACEA showed on Tuesday, even as hybrids h...

Fully electric vehicle sales in EU overtake petrol for first time in December

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Why MAGA suddenly loves solar power The Trump-led attack on solar eases as the right reckons with its crucial role in powering AI and keeping utility bills from spiraling.

Duh.

See our statement on today's announcement between 10 provinces and territories on electricity 📣

Honestly, it's fantastic to see this level of collaboration on building out Canada's electricity

#cdnpoli #electricity #EnergySky #onpoli
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White graphic with black and pink text. Top left: “whn.global”. Top right: “Long COVID Awareness Month”. Main text: “Every COVID infection adds risk, not protection.” The word “risk” is in bright pink; the rest is in black. Below in bright pink: “Each infection increases the risk of Long COVID.” Bottom text: “World Health Network - Science for a safer, healthier world.”

Every COVID infection adds risk, not protection. The more times someone is infected, the higher their risk of developing Long COVID.

Reducing infections is one of the most important ways to protect long-term health. The Five Pillars of Protection help lower risk by layering prevention strategies:

Provincial agreement on electricity grid a landmark moment in Canada's journey to clean, prosperous economy | Pembina Institute EDMONTON — Tim Weis, senior director of the Pembina Institute’s Industrial Decarbonization program, made the following statement in response to the National Energy Corridor agreement announcement.“Thi...

this is good.
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Fossil fuels will be collateral damage in Trump’s war on Iran Canada's oil and gas industry and the politicians in its thrall will use the US attack on Iran as a justification for more pipelines. In reality, it will actually erode the economic case for them.

“Repeated shocks like this push countries to reassess what energy security really means. Wind, solar, storage, and, where available, hydro are not immune to operational challenges. they increasingly look less like a climate choice and more like a stability strategy.”

Excited to be presenting at this virtual @who.int event at the end of the month on behalf of @cape-acme.bsky.social!
Please do consider joining!

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They really don't want to do the hard work of governing, do they?

The Widening Middle East Conflict and Its Impact on Energy - Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University SIPA | CGEP Hear in-depth conversations with the world’s top energy and climate leaders from government, business, academia, and civil society.

If you want to have a deeper understanding of the war’s impact on energy highly recommend this podcast from Columbia Energy Exchange. Recorded yesterday www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/the-widening...

Climate Has Slipped From Canada’s Political Priorities Climate change has fallen lower on Canada’s political agenda, former federal environment minister Steven Guilbeault told a recent webinar, because governments no longer see the issue as a mandate from...

Former climate activist turned Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Steven Guilbeault, says that climate has slipped from Canadian political priorities. He cites an over-reliance on market dynamics and voluntary measures from the private sector, and emphasizes a need for regulation.

Covid inquiry reaches ‘bittersweet’ final day of witness testimony Campaigners say ‘hard-hitting, clear-sighted and damning’ inquiry – the most expensive in history – ‘absolutely has been worth it’ * ‘A new normal’: inquiry’s key findings on how Covid changed UK society Bereaved families have marked the final day of witness testimony in the long-running Covid inquiry by saying government “incompetence, chaos and callousness is now on the public record”. Matt Fowler, co-founder of Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK (CBFFJ), urged officials to use the inquiry as a blueprint “to take brave, decisive, urgent action” and warned the country was still not prepared for a future crisis. Continue reading...

Covid inquiry reaches ‘bittersweet’ final day of witness testimony