Twenty creators have made the cut for the annual Canadian Arts and Fashion Awards (CAFA), and seven of them are at the heart of the arts scene right here in Toronto. #CAFA #CanadianArtsandFashionAwards #TorontoFashion #EmergingArtists
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A Vicious Cycle: Financial Institutions Affect the Climate, and Vice Versa
🍁Un cercle vicieux : les institutions financières affectent le climat, et vice versa 🌍🏦
Let’s talk about double materiality.
🍁Parlons de double matérialité. 🌍🏦
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#CAFA #ClimateFinance
CAFA is about more than 💰. It 🔎 a viable future for our grandchildren ✨. By aligning financial 🏦 decisions with climate science, we can 📉 emissions, strengthen resilience, and 🆙 a just transition.
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#CAFA #ClimateFinance #FutureGenerations #Canada
I just mailed a batch of postcards to Senators asking them to support #CAFA. I believe that small actions like this do add up and make a difference
Our Senate Action Team at Citizens' Climate Lobby Canada. They are so motivated. Check it out: #CAFA
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📰 Must read | Climate risk & pensions
Quoted in the latest piece by Eleonor Wand in The Hill Times.
“These risks must be taken seriously. Canadian pensions are gambling with the retirement of millions of Canadians.”
🔗 www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
#ClimateFinance #CAFA
Thanks so much @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social ! #CAFA is needed more than ever. Courage, forward thinking, system shift are needed to protect the health, environment, economic affordability.
✌️ Record Support Alert ✌️
In just 10 days, Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada volunteers collected 886 signatures for the Climate Aligned Finance Act #CAFA - our biggest open letter yet!
A strong sign of political will for #CAFA
@senrosagalvez.bsky.social
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You have until midnight to sign the Open Letter to the Senate calling for a Climate-Aligned Finance Act (CAFA).
Do it #foryourkids 💚
#climateaction #finance #CAFA
In 2021 Canada five big bnaks commited to reducing the climate-related emissions from their portfolios. ... Today they remain among the largets financiers of fossil fuels globally.
The climate criis is financial risk. It is time to legislated It is time for the Climate Aligned Finance Act Sign Our Open Letter to the Senate of Canada
A collection of the best ideas canvassed from international and national experts, the Climate Aligned Finance Act (CAFA Bill S238) works to align banks investments with our climate commitments.
Graphic promoting climate-aligned finance. Text reads: “Tax dollars are not enough to fund the green transition alone. We need our banks to stop financing the fire. Support Senator Galvez’s private members’ Bill S-238 #CAFA.” Below the text is a collage of many people in a video call holding signs that say “Support CAFA,” “Pass CAFA Now,” and similar messages, showing broad public support. Citizens’ Climate Lobby logo appears in the upper left.
📌 An Open Letter to the Senate: Advancing Financial Alignment with Canada’s Climate Commitments. Please sign by midnight Thursday, January 22
🖊️ Sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
🔥It is time our banks stop fueling the fire.
#CAFA
🧩🌍 The missing piece of Canada’s climate plan: the Climate-Aligned Finance Act ✏️ CAFA
🫶 Thanks to @environmentaldefence.ca ! It’s time to move forward and turn climate ambition into real opportunities. 🏗️🔍💰🍃🔋🌱🗺️
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#CAFA #ClimatePolicy #Canada
CANADIAN POLITICIANS NEED OUR HELP — AND YOUR VOICE.
Act now for a livable future for everyone.
🖋️ Sign our Open Letter to the Senate of Canada to enact a policy that would require Canada’s banks to align with our climate commitments.
#CAFA #S238
🖋️here:
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[chimera culture blitz at CAFA]
We are bringing our first line of original goods,
while also bringing a selection of past merchandises.
More stuffs below. Have a look.
#creatorsparty #creatorsanthrofair #CAFA #CHCL #chimeraculture
Zoom screenshot of 29 people in their video boxes holding signs supporting Climate Aligned Finance. Senator Galvez is in the top row, center, smiling broadly as she sees the suppor
Brilliantly crafted Climate-Aligned Finance #CAFA is back!
Senator Galvez’s video has 15 likes, 7 comments, 188 views
Live? 60 👩👩👧👧 tuned in!
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Our Senate Action Team has doubled and already mapped out ambitious plans for 2026 🌱
🥂Cheers to healthy democracy in 2026🍁
A brilliantly crafted Climate-Aligned Finance #CAFA bill is back!
Senator Galvez’s video already has 11 likes, 5 comments, 123 views & 60 live viewers and a doubling of size of our national Senate Action team
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eQP...
Yay for a healthy democracy🍁 + civic engagement 👩👩👦👦
A brilliantly crafted Climate-Aligned Finance #CAFA bill is back!
Senator Galvez’s video already has 10 likes, 4 comments, 94 views & 60 live viewers.
Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eQP...
This is how credible movements grow: education, evidence-based discussion, and sustained civic engagement. 💡✊
CANADA MUST ALIGN FINANCE WITH THE CLIMATE SCIENCE
Our deepest gratitude @senrosagalvez.bsky.social and all of you who joined—or will take the time—to consider championing Bill #S238 #CAFA
99 Registered
60 Live
And, our national Senate Action Team doubled in size.
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A photo of Senator with an announcement beside it Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada Invites you to join our session with Senator Rosa Galvez To learn about the newly-reintroduced and updated Climate-Aligned Finance Act Wednesday, December 10 8:15 am PT 9:15 am MT 10:15 am CT 11:15 am ET 12:15 pm AT 12:45 pm NT
A zoom photo of people holding up signs in support of Climate Aligned Finance Act.
👿That Alberta MOU could pave the way for a new pipeline, while carbon pricing keeps getting weakened.
🌟Good news: Senator Rosa Galvez has reintroduced #CAFA Climate-Aligned Finance Act #S238 and will join our call on Wednesday, December 10.
🍁All are welcome:
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Fresh from COP30, I asked at the 🇨🇦 🇨🇳 panel how finance can ⚡ climate action.
⏳ Pace is glacial
💰 Finance must accelerate
🌱 Align systems with science
Green bonds, green deposits & biodiversity finance exist—now we need ambition.
🔗 CAFA: rosagalvez.ca/en/initiativ...
#ClimateFinance #CAFA
Ninth Circuit: When class allegations are removed, CAFA jurisdiction ends. SCOTUS’s Royal Canin controls. Remand required. Read more [subscription required]: https://ow.ly/ZeJK50Xs1Iv #NinthCircuit #CAFA #LegalNews
Proud to reintroduce – Fière de réintroduire the Climate-Aligned Finance Act (CAFA) / la Loi sur la finance alignée sur le climat (LFAC) — a blueprint to🍁finance with climate goals, attract investment & build a resilient future. 🌍
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/QKSIo3WFmS4
#CAFA #LFAC #NetZero
🧬The 6th Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotation #CAFA6 #CAFA is growing fast! We now have 295 participants! Join for the love of science🧬machine learning, and 🏆 💵.
Please repost.
#BIOINFORMATICS #machinelearning
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China's Central Academy of Fine Arts Unveils AI Chatbot for Global Engagement #China #Beijing #AI_Chatbot #Central_Academy_of_Fine_Arts #CAFA
India’s new chapter under head coach Khalid Jamil dawned with fireworks, as the Blue Tigers stunned higher-ranked Tajikistan 2-1 in the opening fixture of the CAFA Nations Cup 2025. #CAFA #Indianfootball
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Reverse that awful ruling by Patty Hajdu on back to work legislation for #CUPE #CAFA. This is a serious misstep that can't go unchecked! To have the former litigatior, Maryse Tremblay, for Air Canada now heading the Canada Labour Relations Board is a glaring conflict of interest. #Solidarity✊️
Jiang Biwei (蔣碧薇) leisurely relaxes on a golden-yellow bed reading a book. In the early 1920s Chinese artist Xu Beihong (徐悲鴻) produced numerous paintings and sketches in France of his muse Jiang. The couple were madly in love at the time and too poor to hire models. Jiang was born as Jiang Tangzhen (蔣棠珍) in April 1899 in Yixing, Jiangsu province. In 1911, her parents betrothed her to Zha Zihan, from an influential family of Haining, Zhejiang. In 1916, her family moved to Shanghai for her father to be a professor at Fudan University. One of his students was the ambitious young artist Xu Beihong who became very close with his daughter. Xu was set to go to Japan to study art and Jiang was upset to be forced to marry Zha, so the couple left a note and eloped to Japan giving her the alias "Jiang Biwei" ... which later became better known than her real name. The embarrassment for her family was so great that they declared she had died from an illness. Their anger subsided after Jiang wrote an apology. After 6 months, Jiang and Xu moved back to Shanghai. In 1918, Xu was offered a scholarship to study in France and the young couple moved to Paris. In the mid-1920s, they returned to China and Jiang gave birth to a son and a daughter. But, by 1930, Xu had fallen in love with one of his students: Sun Duoci (孙多慈) ... or so the story goes, but it might of been exaggerated rumors spread by Kuomintang (KMT) leader Chang Tao-fan (张道藩), aka Zhang Daofan, who had known Jiang since Paris and was sending her love letters ... even though Chang had a French wife and child. Jiang and Xu finally and very publicly divorced in the 1940s. When the Kuomintang lost the Chinese Civil War and retreated to Taiwan, Jiang went with Chang and they lived together for 10 years including many when he was president of Taiwan ... before his wife returned in 1958. Jiang published her memoir "Reminiscences of Jiang Biwei" in 1964: composed of two volumes, "Beihong and I" and "Daofan and I."
读书的蒋碧薇 (Jiang Biwei Reading) by 徐悲鴻 / Xu Beihong (Chinese) - Oil on canvas / 1920s - CAFA Art Museum (Beijing, China) #WomenInArt #art #ChineseArtist #reading #artText #ChineseArt #CAFA #PortraitofaWoman #张道藩 #BlueskyArt #蔣碧薇 #JiangBiwei #徐悲鴻 #XuBeihong #CAFAartMuseum #中央美术学院 #artwork #OilPainting
The 80s were a turning point for Chinese artist Zhu Naizheng (朱乃正), as his choice of subject matter gradually changed from being figure-centered to landscape-centered. As for the style he used in his oil paintings, he began to explore new forms of expression by incorporating brushwork from Chinese calligraphy and striving to create a dialogue between Eastern and Western art. In 1980, when Zhu was transferred from Qinghai, where he had worked for over 20 years, back to the CAFA (Central Academy of Fine Arts aka 中央美术学院), he created this painting of a modern Chinese woman seated on a couch, engrossed in reading a paperback booklet. Together, the soft lighting, the simple tones, and the eye-level perspective can be seen as signs of the artistic reform that Zhu would soon undertake. The painting conveys a sense of quiet contemplation and introspection. The subject's absorbed attention to the book she holds, combined with the subdued colors and textures, creates a serene and almost melancholic atmosphere. The realistic style draws the viewer's attention to the details of the woman's expression and the textures of her clothing and the surrounding environment. With her dark hair styled simply, the woman’s expression is one of concentration. She wears a loose-fitting, striped shirt in muted blue and off-white tones, paired with blue trousers. Her posture is relaxed but attentive as her left arm stretches out on the armrest. Painted at a time of political, economic, and cultural reform in China, Zhu was also in a time of transition. The native of Hailan in Zhejiang Province had been sent to work in Qinghai Province after graduation. In 1972, he was selected with other young artists to “technically” correct artworks by amateurs for the official Cultural Revolution Art Exhibition in Beijing. These works presumably included the paintings done by the Huxian peasant painters. Zhu was tranferred back to Beijing in 1980 and reassigned to the Central Art Academy.
妇女像 (Portrait of a Woman) by 朱乃正 / Zhu Naizheng (Chinese) - Oil on canvas / 1980 - CAFA Art Museum (Beijing, China) #WomenInArt #ArtText #Art #ZhuNaizheng #womensart #CAFAArtMuseum #CAFA #ChineseArt #ChineseArtist #realism #portraitofawoman #朱乃正 #妇女像 #中央美术学院 #中央美术学院美术馆 #artoftheday #reading #chinese
