“The Elbows Up for Climate campaign launched today with an open letter signed by more than 100 mayors and councillors from coast to coast to coast, urging all party leaders to advance Canada’s economic and climate security through five bold, and achievable actions.”
#ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis
To celebrate #EarthWeek "the Trump Administration is launching the Freedom to Drive Initiative." This is just the latest escalation of Big Oil's decades-long global war on #publictransit, walking, rolling and #cycling (spearheaded by Koch bros). Attn @urbantruth.bsky.social #urbantruth
“Superpower Suicide” is a concept to help understand the approach of the Trump regime to the rest of the world. We are fighting a war for no reason we can name, losing it, and covering our defeat with genocidal and apocalyptic propaganda.
snyder.substack.com/p/superpower...
Graphic titled Disabled people need mobility equality has pictures of different Disabled people using wheeled mobility aids, some of which are presently legal to use in some ways, and some of which are not presently legal in public spaces. The pictures are surrounding the words “Rights to pedestrian mobility” and “Rights to cycling and cycling-equivalent mobility”. From left and top to bottom in columns, a child using a powerchair, an adult using a powerchair with a pram attached, an adult using a mobility scooter towing two children in a cycle-type trailer, an adult using a manual wheelchair and long cane, an adult on a mobility scooter assisting a small child who is walking, an adult on a recumbent trike, an adult using a manual wheelchair with an e-assist handcycle attachment, an older child on a bicycle, an adult and child using a side-by-side tandem. At the bottom is hashtag MobilityJustice and the Wheels for Wellbeing logo.
You only have until the end of tomorrow to respond to the government's consultation into powered mobility aids.
You can use our 10 Key Asks to help advocate for fair mobility laws for all: wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk/our-campaign...
When you see buses in a depot like this, it means your transit agency could quickly increase service levels at that time.
It's normal to see a lot of buses parked at 2am, but at 9:10am, it's a signal of unmet potential.
All we need is more operating funding to pay for driver, fuel, maintenance.
In a time of rising fascism & an accelerating climate crisis, we organize to strengthen the fight for land return & build lasting political power.
🌎 Join LAN, visit Landback.org
ℹ️ Read our press release: ndnco.cc/landbackpr
#LANDBACK #ClimateJustice #EarthDay #EarthWeek
Our movement grows stronger today.
NDN Collective proudly launches the LANDBACK Action Network (LAN) — a powerful organizing and resourcing hub connecting Indigenous people, Tribal Nations, grassroots groups, organizers, allies, and movements to build together the future we are envisioning.
![The report lists 12 "action insights", each with three "action recommendations". (The list
was cut down from a shortlist of about 40-50 insights, Carbon Brief understands.)
One of the most striking in the draft is "action insight 5", which says: "Take immediate measures to prevent future emissions. Ban new fossil infrastructure, mandate deep methane cuts, accelerate electrification and inscribe fossil-fuel phase- down targets in NDCs [nationally determined contributions] and clean-energy pathways
support to low and middle income countries (LMICs)." The accompanying three "action recommendations" include "halting all new fossil-fuel extraction and infrastructure projects ahead of a final investment decision", "implementing deep, legally binding methane cuts in the energy sector" and "inscribing] targets for fossil-
fuel phase down, electrification and green exports in NDCs". (The draft report includes multiple references to "phasing out" and "phasing down" fossil fuels, rather than the "transition away from fossil fuels" language that was, ultimately,
agreed by countries at the COP 28 UN climate talks in Dubai in 2023.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:xalxqffcayyidntafmptzhta/bafkreian2ufespiadxcuyeock76lqppss4i5hlj5ccgc6zryh2gniizgl4)
The report lists 12 "action insights", each with three "action recommendations". (The list was cut down from a shortlist of about 40-50 insights, Carbon Brief understands.) One of the most striking in the draft is "action insight 5", which says: "Take immediate measures to prevent future emissions. Ban new fossil infrastructure, mandate deep methane cuts, accelerate electrification and inscribe fossil-fuel phase- down targets in NDCs [nationally determined contributions] and clean-energy pathways support to low and middle income countries (LMICs)." The accompanying three "action recommendations" include "halting all new fossil-fuel extraction and infrastructure projects ahead of a final investment decision", "implementing deep, legally binding methane cuts in the energy sector" and "inscribing] targets for fossil- fuel phase down, electrification and green exports in NDCs". (The draft report includes multiple references to "phasing out" and "phasing down" fossil fuels, rather than the "transition away from fossil fuels" language that was, ultimately, agreed by countries at the COP 28 UN climate talks in Dubai in 2023.)
A preliminary scientific “synthesis report” circulated to the 50 nations at the conference on fossil-fuel phase out in Santa Marta, Columbia, recommends real-talk "action recommendations" including the ban of new fossil infrastructure and fossil-fuel phase-down targets in NDCs.
This is the way!
338 PPM.
Some context re Koch brothers bsky.app/profile/urba...
Picture of street filled with people when cars are prohibited, with a prominent sign saying “road closed.” Via Urban Truth Collecrive (Also, it’s a street, not a road)
How come they keep spelling “open” wrong?
Does that street look closed to you? Only if you’re a car… and presumably that’s the real problem. #UrbanTruth
To celebrate #EarthWeek "the Trump Administration is launching the Freedom to Drive Initiative." This is just the latest escalation of Big Oil's decades-long global war on #publictransit, walking, rolling and #cycling (spearheaded by Koch bros). Attn @urbantruth.bsky.social #urbantruth
Who’s really paying their fair share? 🤔
The average Canadian pays 36.7% of their income in taxes. The richest 1%? Just 23.6%. That gap is helping drive inequality in #Canada.
Read our latest #blog: www.oxfam.ca/story/how-ca...
And take action against inequality: www.oxfam.ca/story/how-ca...
Of course they are concentration camps. And @anatosaurus.bsky.social is right that once you accept the euphemism you are halfway to normalizing the thing.
Great event!
Legalize it!
#yyj #bcpoli #AVICC2026
Picture of text stating: show us what actions you can take to address congestion. Focus solutions on expanding and maximizing roadway capacity for driving. ....You may also need to recover roadway capacity from other purposes to support driving
"You may also need to recover road capacity
from other purposes to support driving." The Trump administration urges governors and mayors to take away bus lanes, bike lanes and sidewalks to support more driving. No kidding - straight from USDOT head Sean Duffy to every gov and mayor in America
The city of Victoria makes it very easy to suggest a location where a bike rack is needed: forms.office.com/pages/respon... #YYJ
We face a massive snow drought from the Southwest U.S. up into BC, setting the stage for a devastating #bcwildfire season. This is the #climatecrisis, caused by extracting and burning fossil fuels like LNG from BC (as dangerous as coal!) #bcpoli
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvo3...
David Eby and Mark Carney seem intent on trampling Indigenous rights to cook our planet faster. However, some caucus members seem less keen on the Trump-lite frack-the-planet agenda. This is good. #yyj #bcpoli
While I might not be the biggest fan of the style of our new bus shelters, I do love seeing them go in where there hasn't been a shelter before. This is at Quadra and Balmoral. #yyj #victoriabc #busstop #busshelter
Our #EarthWeek ride and roll was a lot of fun, with a serious message. #yyj #bcpoli
Person riding adult trike on Government Street pedestrian area.
Person riding bicycles on waterfront bike lane with harbor in background
Adult riding cargo bicycle with child on back on Government St pedestrian priority area.
Person riding mobility scooter on Haultain bike and roll route.
Nice day to ride and roll in #VictoriaBC today. #yyj #pwd
Image of book launch announcement
Image of book cover
A Fight for Justice. Book launch Wednesday April 22 5:00 to 7:00 p.m at the Bent Mast, 512 Simcoe Street. #yyj
John is planning to join our #EarthWeek Bike and Roll Celebration. Want to come roll with us? #yyj #climatejustice
Very serious point here — media vastly overreport what Trump says rather than clarifying for the reader the actual strategic situation.
Not what the fossil fuel oligarchs had in mind, exactly. But very, very nice.
Today in #yyj!
PS. Are you following @wheelsforwellbeing.org.uk? They are doing great work on this in the UK.