Catherine McKenna
@cathmckenna.bsky.social
🌱 CEO, Climate & Nature Solutions; Chair UN Net Zero.
🇨🇦Former Minister of Environment & Climate
🏃♀️Author, Run Like a Girl
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www.catherinemckenna.ca
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🇨🇦Former Minister of Environment & Climate
🏃♀️Author, Run Like a Girl
Order your copy today ⬇️
www.catherinemckenna.ca
📩 [email protected]
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Big news! My book, #RunLikeaGirl, is launching in Canada & US on September 23. It’s about having the courage to run your own race-even when it’s hard. Trying to live up to the expectations of others is no way to live or make a difference. Let’s do this!🏃♀️💪 🏃♀️💪 🏃♀️💪 🏃♀️💪
#WomenLeadingonClimate
#WomenLeadingonClimate
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
#MontrealMassacre 💔
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
#MontrealMassacre 💔
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Geneviève Bergeron
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
#MontrealMassacre 💔
Hélène Colgan
Nathalie Croteau
Barbara Daigneault
Anne-Marie Edward
Maud Haviernick
Maryse Laganière
Maryse Leclair
Anne-Marie Lemay
Sonia Pelletier
Michèle Richard
Annie St-Arneault
Annie Turcotte
Barbara Klucznik-Widajewicz
#MontrealMassacre 💔
Joined the Secure Line podcast to talk about climate, democracy, and what it’s actually like to face sustained online and offline harassment as a woman working in politics. Listen now ⬇️
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December 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Joined the Secure Line podcast to talk about climate, democracy, and what it’s actually like to face sustained online and offline harassment as a woman working in politics. Listen now ⬇️
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Really sad to see @catabreu.bsky.social & @simondonner.bsky.social quit Canada’s Net Zero Advisory Body. Cat and Simon are globally respected climate leaders. More than ever, Canadians need experts giving independent advice about how Canada can achieve its goal of net zero emissions.
Ignored since the federal election, an arms-length expert body set up to advise the federal government on the energy transition is collapsing.
The latest pipeline agreement between Canada and Alberta representing the final straw for two members. @woodsideful.bsky.social reports
The latest pipeline agreement between Canada and Alberta representing the final straw for two members. @woodsideful.bsky.social reports
Federal net-zero body falling apart in wake of Alberta-Ottawa deal
Two prominent members of the Net-Zero Advisory Body, including its chair, have resigned this week, citing a lack of influence over a government that’s increasingly pulling back on climate action.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Really sad to see @catabreu.bsky.social & @simondonner.bsky.social quit Canada’s Net Zero Advisory Body. Cat and Simon are globally respected climate leaders. More than ever, Canadians need experts giving independent advice about how Canada can achieve its goal of net zero emissions.
So brutal. Danielle Smith & the oilsands’ goal is increasing production, pollution, and the cost Canadians pay for climate change - while delaying the energy transition. The opposite of winning the future.
Just one week after signing an MOU with the federal govt agreeing to strengthen industrial carbon pricing, Alberta has changed its regulations, making the agreement harder to achieve.
Read our full statement from Principal Economist @enveco.bsky.social ⬇️
climateinstitute.ca/news/alberta...
Read our full statement from Principal Economist @enveco.bsky.social ⬇️
climateinstitute.ca/news/alberta...
Alberta’s latest changes to industrial carbon pricing make MOU commitments harder to achieve - Canadian Climate Institute
Seven days after signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with federal government, Alberta changes regulations that make the $130 minimum effective carbon credit price harder to achieve
climateinstitute.ca
December 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
So brutal. Danielle Smith & the oilsands’ goal is increasing production, pollution, and the cost Canadians pay for climate change - while delaying the energy transition. The opposite of winning the future.
Join me next week at Rockcliffe Park to talk #RunLikeAGirl ––about leading, learning, pushing for change & more!
📍Rockcliffe Park Community Hall
🗓️ Dec. 9 at 8 p.m.
Thanks Sarah Anson-Cartwright for this thoughtful article on my book. Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/CathMcKenna-...
📍Rockcliffe Park Community Hall
🗓️ Dec. 9 at 8 p.m.
Thanks Sarah Anson-Cartwright for this thoughtful article on my book. Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/CathMcKenna-...
December 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Join me next week at Rockcliffe Park to talk #RunLikeAGirl ––about leading, learning, pushing for change & more!
📍Rockcliffe Park Community Hall
🗓️ Dec. 9 at 8 p.m.
Thanks Sarah Anson-Cartwright for this thoughtful article on my book. Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/CathMcKenna-...
📍Rockcliffe Park Community Hall
🗓️ Dec. 9 at 8 p.m.
Thanks Sarah Anson-Cartwright for this thoughtful article on my book. Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/CathMcKenna-...
“Find creative solutions to tough challenges.” That’s what it takes to build a clean energy future.
Great chat with Ingrid Reumert from Orsted on the latest #WomenLeadingOnClimate.
💚 Listen, subscribe & share → linktr.ee/WLOC
Great chat with Ingrid Reumert from Orsted on the latest #WomenLeadingOnClimate.
💚 Listen, subscribe & share → linktr.ee/WLOC
December 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
“Find creative solutions to tough challenges.” That’s what it takes to build a clean energy future.
Great chat with Ingrid Reumert from Orsted on the latest #WomenLeadingOnClimate.
💚 Listen, subscribe & share → linktr.ee/WLOC
Great chat with Ingrid Reumert from Orsted on the latest #WomenLeadingOnClimate.
💚 Listen, subscribe & share → linktr.ee/WLOC
So grateful to the MaRS Discovery District team and the Women in Cleantech Network for such a powerful morning 💚 Being in a room full of women who are building climate solutions was incredible. Thanks for the space to talk leadership, risk, failure & getting back up again.
December 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
So grateful to the MaRS Discovery District team and the Women in Cleantech Network for such a powerful morning 💚 Being in a room full of women who are building climate solutions was incredible. Thanks for the space to talk leadership, risk, failure & getting back up again.
The thing about online hate is that it goes offline & is dangerous. In my case, it would often start with clip of Conservative politician making a personal attack in Question Period, rage farming outlets would promote, bots & trolls pile on, algorithms amplify.
It needs to stop!
It needs to stop!
🇨🇦 Catherine McKenna joins us this week to chat about the state of hate online (esp. for women in politics) & her new book, Run Like a Girl 🏃♀️.
Get The AmberMac Show now on Spotify / wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/0Wam...
Cc @jeffmacarthur.bsky.social
Get The AmberMac Show now on Spotify / wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/0Wam...
Cc @jeffmacarthur.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The thing about online hate is that it goes offline & is dangerous. In my case, it would often start with clip of Conservative politician making a personal attack in Question Period, rage farming outlets would promote, bots & trolls pile on, algorithms amplify.
It needs to stop!
It needs to stop!
Reposted by Catherine McKenna
Books you shouldn’t miss:
📘 Saving Us by @katharinehayhoe.com
🚀 Stellar by James Arbib and @tonyseba.bsky.social
🌞 Here Comes the Sun by @billmckibben.bsky.social
🏃♀️ Run Like a Girl by @cathmckenna.bsky.social
📊 Principles of Transition Finance by C. Robin Castelli
...and more.
📘 Saving Us by @katharinehayhoe.com
🚀 Stellar by James Arbib and @tonyseba.bsky.social
🌞 Here Comes the Sun by @billmckibben.bsky.social
🏃♀️ Run Like a Girl by @cathmckenna.bsky.social
📊 Principles of Transition Finance by C. Robin Castelli
...and more.
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Books you shouldn’t miss:
📘 Saving Us by @katharinehayhoe.com
🚀 Stellar by James Arbib and @tonyseba.bsky.social
🌞 Here Comes the Sun by @billmckibben.bsky.social
🏃♀️ Run Like a Girl by @cathmckenna.bsky.social
📊 Principles of Transition Finance by C. Robin Castelli
...and more.
📘 Saving Us by @katharinehayhoe.com
🚀 Stellar by James Arbib and @tonyseba.bsky.social
🌞 Here Comes the Sun by @billmckibben.bsky.social
🏃♀️ Run Like a Girl by @cathmckenna.bsky.social
📊 Principles of Transition Finance by C. Robin Castelli
...and more.
At #MyRunLikeAGirl book launch in Victoria last week, I had a conversation with @ianmauro.bsky.social. Ian asked me tough but thoughtful questions - and I did my best to answer them.
Have a listen and let me know what you think.
Have a listen and let me know what you think.
The conversation regarding pipelines and tankers is active across #BritishColumbia and #Canada. Our Executive Director @ianmauro.bsky.social recently asked @cathmckenna.bsky.social on her take.
#bcpoli #canadapoli #climatechange #climatesolutions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5dW...
#bcpoli #canadapoli #climatechange #climatesolutions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5dW...
A Conversation with Catherine McKenna: Pipelines, Tankers, and Fossil Fuel Development
YouTube video by PICSCanada
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
At #MyRunLikeAGirl book launch in Victoria last week, I had a conversation with @ianmauro.bsky.social. Ian asked me tough but thoughtful questions - and I did my best to answer them.
Have a listen and let me know what you think.
Have a listen and let me know what you think.
If you raise your hand & say you’re committed to net zero, you need to do the work: short-term targets, a credible transition plan, real emissions going down, money going from fossil fuels to clean, no new investment in fossil fuel infrastructure. See our UN Expert Group “Integrity Matters” report.
Integrity Matters: Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities | United Nations
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, on 31 March 2022, established a High-Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities to develop stronge...
www.un.org
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If you raise your hand & say you’re committed to net zero, you need to do the work: short-term targets, a credible transition plan, real emissions going down, money going from fossil fuels to clean, no new investment in fossil fuel infrastructure. See our UN Expert Group “Integrity Matters” report.
If you need hope on climate, check out our new #WomenLeadingonClate podcast episode where I talk with two awesome women who are using the law to get action on climate: Client Earth CEO @lauraclarkece.bsky.social & my pinky promise friend, @sophiamathur.bsky.social! 💪
Sophia was 10 when we made a pinky promise to protect the planet — and she’s more than lived up to it. Hear her story & @lauraclarkece.bsky.social of @clientearth.bsky.social on Women Leading On Climate podcast.
Listen, subscribe, share: linktr.ee/WLOC
Listen, subscribe, share: linktr.ee/WLOC
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
If you need hope on climate, check out our new #WomenLeadingonClate podcast episode where I talk with two awesome women who are using the law to get action on climate: Client Earth CEO @lauraclarkece.bsky.social & my pinky promise friend, @sophiamathur.bsky.social! 💪
Reposted by Catherine McKenna
November 27, 2025: PM Carney’s Alberta pipeline partnership, @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social's resignation, support for industries affected by tariffs www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf3U...
@rosiebarton.bsky.social @acoyne.bsky.social @chebert18.bsky.social @markusoff.bsky.social @althiaraj.bsky.social 🍁
@rosiebarton.bsky.social @acoyne.bsky.social @chebert18.bsky.social @markusoff.bsky.social @althiaraj.bsky.social 🍁
At Issue | Carney’s Alberta pipeline partnership
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
November 27, 2025: PM Carney’s Alberta pipeline partnership, @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social's resignation, support for industries affected by tariffs www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf3U...
@rosiebarton.bsky.social @acoyne.bsky.social @chebert18.bsky.social @markusoff.bsky.social @althiaraj.bsky.social 🍁
@rosiebarton.bsky.social @acoyne.bsky.social @chebert18.bsky.social @markusoff.bsky.social @althiaraj.bsky.social 🍁
Whoa. It’s called “zoom” - quite a way to respond to the Coastal First Nations request for a meeting especially when he refused to meet them before the MOU that directly affects them was announced - while doing over 50 meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists.
HODGSON: It's called Zoom. I think that's what we're using.
COCHRANE: I understand. But I'm also not a Coastal First Nation Chief.
COCHRANE: I understand. But I'm also not a Coastal First Nation Chief.
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Whoa. It’s called “zoom” - quite a way to respond to the Coastal First Nations request for a meeting especially when he refused to meet them before the MOU that directly affects them was announced - while doing over 50 meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists.
See CarbonTracker’s new report “Petro-Provinces at Risk”.
Energy transition puts at huge risk provincial revenues from oil & gas in 2030s:
- AB ⬇️ 85%
- BC ⬇️ 72%
- SK ⬇️ 78%
Oil & gas expansion is increasingly a “high-risk, low-reward strategy”.
Energy transition puts at huge risk provincial revenues from oil & gas in 2030s:
- AB ⬇️ 85%
- BC ⬇️ 72%
- SK ⬇️ 78%
Oil & gas expansion is increasingly a “high-risk, low-reward strategy”.
Petro-Provinces at Risk - Carbon Tracker Initiative
How oil- and gas-dependent Canadian provinces face fiscal strain as the energy transition progresses A number...
carbontracker.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
See CarbonTracker’s new report “Petro-Provinces at Risk”.
Energy transition puts at huge risk provincial revenues from oil & gas in 2030s:
- AB ⬇️ 85%
- BC ⬇️ 72%
- SK ⬇️ 78%
Oil & gas expansion is increasingly a “high-risk, low-reward strategy”.
Energy transition puts at huge risk provincial revenues from oil & gas in 2030s:
- AB ⬇️ 85%
- BC ⬇️ 72%
- SK ⬇️ 78%
Oil & gas expansion is increasingly a “high-risk, low-reward strategy”.
Imagine the hole in Alberta’s budget when the price & demand for oil is in long-term decline in 2030s as a result of the energy transition and increased demand for clean energy. Not nostalgia for the past, it’s about winning the future. Just economics, folks.
Alberta faces $6.4-billion deficit as falling oil prices and trade troubles take toll
This year’s budget represents a massive multibillion-dollar swing from an $8.3-billion surplus last year
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Imagine the hole in Alberta’s budget when the price & demand for oil is in long-term decline in 2030s as a result of the energy transition and increased demand for clean energy. Not nostalgia for the past, it’s about winning the future. Just economics, folks.
Sophia was 10 when we made a pinky promise to protect the planet — and she’s more than lived up to it. Hear her story & @lauraclarkece.bsky.social of @clientearth.bsky.social on Women Leading On Climate podcast.
Listen, subscribe, share: linktr.ee/WLOC
Listen, subscribe, share: linktr.ee/WLOC
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Sophia was 10 when we made a pinky promise to protect the planet — and she’s more than lived up to it. Hear her story & @lauraclarkece.bsky.social of @clientearth.bsky.social on Women Leading On Climate podcast.
Listen, subscribe, share: linktr.ee/WLOC
Listen, subscribe, share: linktr.ee/WLOC
I worked with @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social starting when I was a new Minister working hard to tackle climate change & build an economy that positioned Canada to win the energy transition. He gets it. He has worked with integrity his entire career & will continue.
He is the best of politics. 🙏
He is the best of politics. 🙏
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I worked with @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social starting when I was a new Minister working hard to tackle climate change & build an economy that positioned Canada to win the energy transition. He gets it. He has worked with integrity his entire career & will continue.
He is the best of politics. 🙏
He is the best of politics. 🙏
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Reposted by Catherine McKenna
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
Working on climate is hard—but nights like Tuesday in @victoria.ca remind me why we keep going.
Huge thanks to @uvic.ca, @picscanada.bsky.social, and everyone who came out for climate and your coastal waters. 💚🌊
Huge thanks to @uvic.ca, @picscanada.bsky.social, and everyone who came out for climate and your coastal waters. 💚🌊
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Working on climate is hard—but nights like Tuesday in @victoria.ca remind me why we keep going.
Huge thanks to @uvic.ca, @picscanada.bsky.social, and everyone who came out for climate and your coastal waters. 💚🌊
Huge thanks to @uvic.ca, @picscanada.bsky.social, and everyone who came out for climate and your coastal waters. 💚🌊
What an incredible day in Vancouver — from an energizing afternoon with students UBC to an evening with 400+ people from business, finance, policy, philanthropy, health care and infrastructure.
Huge thanks to @kookai.bsky.social for hosting a powerful “Run Like a Girl” conversation.
Huge thanks to @kookai.bsky.social for hosting a powerful “Run Like a Girl” conversation.
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
What an incredible day in Vancouver — from an energizing afternoon with students UBC to an evening with 400+ people from business, finance, policy, philanthropy, health care and infrastructure.
Huge thanks to @kookai.bsky.social for hosting a powerful “Run Like a Girl” conversation.
Huge thanks to @kookai.bsky.social for hosting a powerful “Run Like a Girl” conversation.
Wonderful day of #RunLikeAGirl events with UBC Sauder School on Monday - met hundreds of students & Vancouverites who care about climate, politics & making change! Many women asked me what gives me hope. The honest answer: That I’m not alone but in solidarity with so many amazing women! 💪
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Wonderful day of #RunLikeAGirl events with UBC Sauder School on Monday - met hundreds of students & Vancouverites who care about climate, politics & making change! Many women asked me what gives me hope. The honest answer: That I’m not alone but in solidarity with so many amazing women! 💪
Live at @uvic.ca tonight! Join the livestream: tinyurl.com/RLAG-uvic-live
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Live at @uvic.ca tonight! Join the livestream: tinyurl.com/RLAG-uvic-live
Hey Canadians: This is what winning the future looks like! (Hint: it’s not doubling down on oil and gas!)
Great piece by @gmbutts.bsky.social, Rick Smith, Peter Nicholson.
Great piece by @gmbutts.bsky.social, Rick Smith, Peter Nicholson.
New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson.
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
New data shows the world is embracing renewable energy. Canada can’t follow Trump’s fossil fuel obsession
North America at risk of becoming an island of fossil fuels in an electrifying world. Canada should take note and choose a better path.
www.thestar.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Hey Canadians: This is what winning the future looks like! (Hint: it’s not doubling down on oil and gas!)
Great piece by @gmbutts.bsky.social, Rick Smith, Peter Nicholson.
Great piece by @gmbutts.bsky.social, Rick Smith, Peter Nicholson.