No provincial environmental impact assessment required for Kevin O'Leary's proposed Wonder Valley data centre | CBC News Kevin O’Leary's proposed Wonder Valley project in northwestern Alberta will not need to undergo an environmental impact assessment from the province due to existing water and power systems. However, t...

Only in Dani Smith's Alberta: A huge climate-trashing AI centre doesn't need an environmental assessment. So can you kindly get stuffed with your pipeline requests?
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Illustration of a blonde bearded caveman with a tie, hardhat and an axe. He’s standing by a campfire and a stone cave with a wooden door with the red label “BANNED: EFFICIENCY”. Stand.earth logo in the bottom left corner and the SAFE Cities logo in the bottom right corner.

Why is Ford trying to pass a new Housing Bill to keep Ontario buildings in the Stone Ages?

Maybe because he wants to let his developer buddies cut corners to save a few bucks — allowing them to ditch modern tech like electric heat pumps in favour of polluting gas furnaces and boilers. 🧵 #GreenSky

Background photo of Ontario. Photo of Doug Ford. “Doug Ford is selling out the climate and our communities. Again. He's putting corporate profits over our future. Here's how.”

Red background. “Ford just tabled a bill to kill local green building policies. Ontario cities have worked for years to build up these policies. Today, 15 cities use Green Development Standards to encourage new homes to use clean and efficient heating rather than polluting gas boilers and furnaces. Ford wants to squash them and keep us hooked on fossil fuels.”

White background. Photo of money at bottom of image. “Who Actually Wins? Follow the money. Enbridge: Enbridge serves gas to 75% of Ontario residents for home heating. It wants to lock in even more people to be hooked on gas. Big Developers: Ford's buddies save a quick dime by avoiding modern tech like heat pumps, leaving you with the bill later.”

Red background. Cutout image of a high rise apartment building in bottom right corner. “Buildings are Ontario's #3 polluter. We need climate action. But if this bill passes, new homes will needlessly pump out more pollution and add to Ontario's emissions when we desperately need to cut them. We can't build a climate-safe future if we keep building like it's 1990.”

You can’t make this up 🙄 Doug Ford is trying to destroy… local green building policies. 🧵 #GreenSky

The Ford government just introduced a new omnibus housing bill that would kill local green building policies which encourage new homes to be efficient, sustainable, and more affordable to operate.

We will be pushing back. Watch this space.

For now, some info and my perspective:

​​​​Cost of Net Zero by 2050 less than a single fossil fuel price shock​ – CCC  - Climate Change Committee The independent, statutory body tested its cost and energy security conclusions against different scenarios. It found that the total additional cost of a single fossil fuel price spike of 2022 magnitu...

The additional cost of ONE fossil fuel price spike on the scale of 2022 = the ENTIRE COST of Net Zero by 2050. We get precisely nothing in return for the first cost, and a whole new, more secure and cheaper energy system from the second one.
#NoBrainer
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Photovoltaic Plants with Battery Cheaper than Conventional Power Plants - Fraunhofer ISE The newest edition of the study by the Fraunhofer ISE on the electricity generation costs of various power plants shows that photovoltaic systems now produce electricity much more cheaply than either ...

Everything has changed ... except the claims of the fossil fuel lobbyists who infest politics and the media.
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It's finally here! "Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves From the Tyranny of the Automobile" is now available wherever you buy books. Thank you to everyone who has made this day possible, including our amazing podcast listeners. We hope everyone finds the book valuable!

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Canadian government officials, what are you still doing on X in 2026? The platform's own chatbot started posting sexualized material of children and other people who couldn't consent. With no moral bottom in sight, it's well past time our officials found other ways to c...

It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.

Bankrupt oil company leaves Alberta county with $9.3M unpaid tax bill | CBC News Big Lakes County in northwestern Alberta says it has formally approved the write off of more than $9 million in unpaid property taxes owed by the now bankrupt Razor Energy Corp.

When polluters don’t pay, taxpayers do.

#CleanUpYourMess

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Doug Ford keeps crapping on Ontario.

Record Arctic warmth meets retreating climate action, leaving the North exposed From shrinking sea ice to wetter weather, the latest report card catalogues a year of rapid-fire change

“Inuit Nunangat is at the forefront of climate change, and irreversible changes are occurring in our homeland. Our adaptation costs & needs will grow whether or not global temperatures remain within 1.5 or 2.0C. ITK is deeply concerned that Canada won’t meet its emissions targets.”

A green buildings policy in Toronto would spur heat pump adoption across the city, making homes safer, healthier, and less polluting. If you're a Toronto resident, send an email to your council member telling them to vote in support of the policy at City Hall now! act.stand.earth/page/88238/data/1

Investing in a healthy planet isn’t just good for nature—it’s a massive economic opportunity.

New #GEO7 report shows that transforming energy, food, waste & finance systems can unlock US$20 trillion a year by 2070, save millions of lives, & lift millions out of poverty.

ow.ly/AFjE50XG8bI #UNEA7

At #UNEA7 opening, UNEP ED @ingerandersen.bsky.social stressed that the environmental crises we face are shared challenges.

Her message was clear: only by working together and grounding decisions in science can we secure a stable climate, healthy nature, and a pollution-free future: bit.ly/48KxbA1

Toronto residents mobilized yesterday to depute for a strong climate action plan that could lower costs, improve transportation, create jobs and save lives. It was inspiring to be in the room.
If we want a livable city we need council to pass a stronger TranformTO now !

What’s scarier than the climate crisis? A city council that refuses to talk about the climate crisis!

We need BETTER leadership

#IMHO the current crop (can only speak to #TOpoli) won't even mouth the words #ClimateCrisis. Find leaders who will plot #TransformTO as a lynch pin to Housing/Affordability, Inequality, Public Health & Infrastructure investments. Waiting for the leaders to make some noise

"I'm not crazy. It's really there and its bad."

This farmer was able to finally see the invisible pollution from oil and and gas on her farm with the help of our optical gas imaging camera.

BREAKING: The #Ford government has just forced through legislative changes in #Bill68 that strip away provincial climate obligations — just days before critical December 1st #Mathur youth climate hearing where the government was expected to have to finally answer for its climate record. Stay tuned.

COPs vs CO2 On the most important climate scoreboard — the atmosphere — our kids are losing spectacularly.

Despite decades of international climate summits (officially called United Nations Conference of the Parties, or COPs), the blanket of climate-destabilizing CO2 continues to grow thicker at an accelerating rate. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/a...

Support a Strong Climate Action Plan for Toronto The City of Toronto adopted a climate action plan called TransformTO in 2017, in 2021 the city accelerated its TransformTO targets in line with the climate emergency that was declared in 2019.  ...

Help build a healthy, low-carbon, climate-resilient Toronto where we can all thrive.Please sign and share this petition for a strong climate action plan! you.leadnow.ca/petitions/su...

Tell City Hall: We need to green Toronto’s buildings Make your voice heard

If you’re a Toronto resident, send an email now to your council member and the mayor telling them to support a green buildings policy!

Background photo of a person in Toronto, with the cityscape behind them. Illustration of buildings with a plant growing out of a smokestack. “Sustainable buildings protect you from extreme weather and make homes more comfortable. TELL TORONTO CITY COUNCIL: "Greener buildings for all." SEND A MESSAGE” Stand.earth logo and Toronto Environmental Alliance logo in bottom left corner.

More than 50% of climate pollution in Toronto comes from burning gas to heat buildings

The good news is, we can solve this.

Ontario First Nation battles Australian-owned company over Ring of Fire mine Without federal intervention, no environmental assessment will be carried out on a proposed mine in the Ring of Fire — a boon to Australian billionaires at the expense of the local Neskantaga First Na...

As the pieces fall into place for Eagle’s Nest, the Neskantaga First Nation — a fly-in community home to about 400 people living for more than 30 years under a boil water advisory — is fighting the development. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/17/n...

Jane Goodall died before the world caught up, Suzuki says David Suzuki counts Jane Goodall among his top inspirations, and said he isn't grieving her death — he's grieving the political, economic and legal systems that destroy nature have not been changed th...

David Suzuki counts Jane Goodall among his top inspirations, but he isn't grieving her death. He’s grieving she never got to see the big changes to the political, economic and legal systems that destroy nature and must be reformed. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/n...

"You can't transition by building more of the problem."

@tzeporah.bsky.social, International Program Dir. at Stand.earth & Chair of
@fossiltreaty.bsky.social, talks climate change, COP30, & the fight for a #FossilFuelTreatyNow on the latest episode of Adam Walsh's podcast The Signal on CBC News.

The origin of #OrangeShirtDay 🧡

Please share, and support Phyllis Webstad by purchasing her newly published book "Decolonization and Me: Conversations about healing a Nation and ourselves" >> shop.medicinewheelpublishing.com/products/dec...

@medicinewheelpub.bsky.social
#TruthBeforeReconciliation

Canada should fast-track the idea that Indigenous rights and critical minerals go hand in hand Leadership in inclusion and responsibility projects to the world that Canada is a safe and reliable jurisdiction for mining.

To unlock Canada’s full potential for critical minerals, governments and industry must treat Indigenous rights as central pillars—not afterthoughts—in mining development.

Read more from Saga Williams, the Institute’s Marisa Beck and Tamara Krawchenko ⬇️
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Nova Scotia’s forest ban is a test — just not the one some people think Tim Houston is trying to prevent the sort of wildfires that caused death and destruction in his province just two years ago. To some people, though, he's just an agent of creeping climate extremism an...

Dangerously dry conditions have forced Nova Scotia to restrict public access to forests and trails. Why the decision is the latest litmus test of our collective willingness to pull together in a crisis — and how some people are failing it badly. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/07/o...

Why all climate misinformation should be seen as disinformation Almost all misinformation — especially about climate change — is the downstream product of coordinated disinformation campaigns specifically designed to deceive and delay progress.

Almost all misinformation — especially about climate change — is the downstream product of coordinated disinformation campaigns specifically designed to deceive and delay progress, writes Andrew Heffernan www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/05/o...