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Gardener. Current: flower mixologist. Former: flack. Fluent in spin. I media scan, therefore I am. Mister Rogers/Mary Oliver stan. Born at 326 ppm. Old married broad. Mom. Dogs' person. Canadian. Ferenge. she/her #BlackLivesMatter #LFC #ElbowsUp
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · Jun 23
For the time-being, many of the political news stories I share will have comments closed. I want to continue to share the stories as a service and FYI to other news junkies here but don't want negative energy in my comments right now. Apologies and thanks for understanding.
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3boxesofsighs.bsky.social
macy’s thanksgiving day parade
1988

elliott erwitt
large balloon snoopy passing by a window with 2 people seated watching the thanksgiving day parade
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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ericallixrogers.com
Goodnight, city.
Night time photo looking out over the reflecting Waters of Lake Michigan towards the illuminated Chicago skyline under a mostly cloudy night sky.
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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aptnnews.bsky.social
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the memorandum of understanding that Canada and Alberta Thursday morning.

The MOU explicitly endorses the construction of a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
‘The answer is no and always will be’: UBCIC on Alberta-Canada MOU
The Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) says it’s against the MOU signed Thursday morning to build a massive new bitumen pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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amandafollett.bsky.social
I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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stewartprest.ca
Honestly, it really is.
jjofbc.bsky.social Ezekiel Bones @jjofbc.bsky.social · 7h
its absolutely unfucking believable to sign an MOU about what will be done in another province without even inviting the province to the table
November 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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brucearthur.bsky.social
The man has principles
rachelgilmore.bsky.social Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 9h
Trudeau-era environment minister Steven Guilbeault has published a resignation letter detailing the reasons for his departure from Carney's cabinet.

He directly cites today's MOU:
Statement by Steven Guilbeault This afternoon, it is with great sadness that I submitted my resignation to the Prime Minister as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec. As you know, I chose to enter politics to champion the fight against climate change and the protection of the environment. Over the past ten years, our country has made historic progress in reducing climate pollution, protecting nature and the environment, while our economy continued to grow. I believe I have contributed to these advancements, and I remain deeply proud of the achievements I have helped bring forward: • Standing up to tech giants and major polluters • Implementing Canada's first emissions reduction plan, slowing their growth and placing them on a downward trajectory • Establishing the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation • Modernizing the Canadian Environmental Protection Act • Developing the country's first national climate adaptation strategy to protect our communities • Eliminating harmful single-use plastics • Implementing the most ambitious nature conservation plan in the country's history • Continuing the modernization of the Official Languages Act • Making historic investments in arts and culture, including during the COVID-19 crisis and in the most recent budget Changes in our relationship with the United States have led to profound disruptions affecting the global order, diplomatic relations, and the economy. I understand and share the Prime Minister's efforts to ensure our country First, there was no consultation with the Indigenous nations of the West Coast of British Columbia or with the provincial government, who would be greatly affected by this agreement. Furthermore, a pipeline to the West Coast would have major environmental impacts, particularly as it could cross the Great Bear Rainforest, contribute to a significant increase in climate pollution, and move Canada further away from its greenhouse gas reduction targets. Lifting the tanker ban on the West Coast would also significantly increase the risk of accidents in the region. This moratorium was established in 1972 following a unanimous vote in the House of Commons, notably because navigation in the Hecate Strait is highly dangerous. Its removal would also hinder the creation of a marine conservation area in the Great Bear Sea, a project our government has been actively developing with Indigenous partners and the government of British Columbia for several years, protecting more than 100,000 km of this ecologically sensitive region. We cannot hope to decarbonize our economy without decarbonizing the electricity sector. The proposal to exempt Alberta from the Clean Electricity Regulations in exchange for stricter industrial carbon pricing rules and the Pathways project is, in my view, a serious mistake. As shown in the analysis submitted to the House of Commons, without this regulation, the electricity sector-which has halved its pollution over the past 20 years-would return to an upward emissions trajectory. This regulation also saves lives by reducing air pollution, generates over $3 billion in healthcare savings, and ultimately reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 182 million tonnes. Finally, over the past few months, several elements of the climate action plan I worked on as Minister of the Environment have been, or are about to be, dismantled: the consumer carbon pricing, the Zero Emission Vehicle standard, the oil and gas sector emissions cap, the framework to eliminate fossil fuel subsidies, and the Clean Electricity Regulations. In my view, these measures remain essential to our climate action plan. I want to express my sincere gratitude to the citizens of Laurier-Sainte-Marie for the trust they have placed in me since 2019. I will continue to represent them as their Liberal Member of Parliament with dedication. I also thank the Prime Minister for the honor of serving in his cabinet and as his lieutenant in Quebec. When I entered politics, it was because I had a deep conviction that I could make a difference in fighting climate change and protecting our environment. My commitment to leaving a better world for the future of our children and our planet remains unchanged. Steven Guilbeault Member of Parliament for Laurier-Sainte-Marie
November 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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andreawoo.bsky.social
Steven Guilbeault, career environmentalist, resigns from Carney cabinet after announcement of energy deal with Alberta
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault resigns from cabinet after Carney, Smith sign energy deal
Mr. Guilbeault is a career environmentalist who has been serving as the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
christyceeck.bsky.social
Ford and the dentist. Carney and...everything.

I spent the day at floral wholesalers. Catching up on the news now, I would like to go back and just *be* with the flowers.
Bouquets of blue, purple and white lisianthus rest against red mini carnations.
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
Btw, if you're a Carney loyalist who has rationalized everything he's done and told the rest of us to keep quiet, you own what's happening now and what will happen in the next election.
November 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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stewartprest.ca
The result of the current path could well be a project tied up for years with court battles and beset by protests, and a decline in Liberal fortunes in BC and no offsetting gains in Alberta.

Meanwhile other states will continue moving towards a low carbon future. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions were unchanged from a year earlier in the third quarter of 2025, extending a flat or falling trend that started in March 2024.
www.carbonbrief.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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stewartprest.ca
It's not hard to imagine the Liberals bleeding enough support to hand significant chunks of BC to the Conservatives in the next federal election. And unlike in Alberta, the Liberals have significant ground to lose in BC.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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stewartprest.ca
Same goes for First Nations. The federal government is going to spend a lot of time and money in court explaining how they could be serious about consulting with Indigenous peoples in accordance with s35 obligations, when they approved the project in principle before the conversation even began.
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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stewartprest.ca
It's a strange way to go about building national unity—agreeing with Alberta what should be built in BC without talking to BC about it.

Can't imagine the federal government taking this approach to a project that went through Ontario or Quebec.
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Carney briefs cabinet on Alberta energy deal to be unveiled Thursday
Agreement could open the door for a new heavy oil pipeline to the B.C. coast
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
christyceeck.bsky.social
Oh look, there's the dentist with Ford at a PC fundraiser.

"A company that received millions of Ontario taxpayer dollars from the Skills Development Fund is run by a dentist whose clinic’s clientele has included members of Premier Doug Ford’s family, according to eight well-placed sources" #OnPoli
The eight sources — including two who’ve worked in Progressive Conservative politics, four who’ve worked with Maggirias, and two from the dental sector more broadly — said Maggirias often boasted about his connections to the Ford family. His clinic’s website does too. “We want you to feel as comfortable and relaxed as the Ford family has during their visits with us,” it says.
November 27, 2025 at 8:46 PM
christyceeck.bsky.social
Is alienating lots of your caucus and a big chunk of your voter base a 4-D chess strategy?

And Energy Minister Tim Hodgson scolded members of the B.C. caucus not to be “naive,” saying they should stop being “boy scouts” on energy? Really?

#GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli

www.thestar.com/politics/mar...
“There’s zero political win in this for us federally,” said a Liberal MP on Thursday who told the Star the deal gives Alberta everything it wants, even without a realistic private sector pipeline proposal on the table right now, and although it has the potential to alienate voters who supported the Liberal party because of its climate actions and commitment to reconcile Indigenous rights and concerns. The MP said it is not clear if Carney wants to get to “yes” on a pipeline, or to “no,” and said while Carney is a very smart man, he is also able to do politically “really dumb” things.
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 PM
christyceeck.bsky.social
So PM Goldman Sachs excluded an experienced environment minister under Trudeau, Steven Guilbeault, from deliberations on the pipeline agreement with Alberta? And the MPs who are upset are worried about their seats but climate collapse, not so much?

#GiftLink 🎁

www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
But news that the deal will outline how a new pipeline could get backing from the federal government has sparked anxiety within the Liberal caucus, according to four sources. One of them has described some MPs from the party’s British Columbia caucus as “hopping mad” over their exclusion from talks about the Alberta accord. A second source said some are worried a deal to help pave the way for a new pipeline — which Smith wants built through northern B.C., requiring Ottawa to lift or partially remove a long-standing ban on large oil tanker traffic — could jeopardize their re-election. The Star agreed not to identify the sources so they could speak freely about internal party dynamics.
November 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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dayintoronto.bsky.social
I believe all governments disappoint. I certainly don’t trust any politician - PMMC validated that in near record time.
November 27, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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marygillis.bsky.social
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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CDC website altered at Robert F. Kennedy's behest to reflect his belief that "all events depicted in the film Ghostbusters really happened."
November 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
christyceeck.bsky.social
A 1,100-kilometre journey to another country to have fingerprints done...

With a lot of pressing, a Citizenship & Immigration senior operations person (who shall remain nameless) admitted to me years ago that Canada under-resourced visa operations for all of Africa (except South Africa of course.)
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 AM
christyceeck.bsky.social
With more cuts coming in '26.

"Ontario colleges & universities have been hit with more than $4.6 billion in lost revenues amid the drastic cuts to international students…

The new numbers have the province’s universities now warning they “cannot cut their way out of these growing fiscal challenges.
November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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garyhornseth.bsky.social
A favorite archive photo. It appeared in the Minneapolis Times today in 1899, taken by local photographer and restaurateur W. Ernest Bateman.
garyhornseth.bsky.social Gary Hornseth @garyhornseth.bsky.social · Nov 16
Minneapolis Times Building on a rainy night, 4th St. S and Nicollet Ave., uncredited photographer, November 1899

Image: Hennepin County Library; digitalcollections.hclib.org/digital/coll...
A black and white image of a misty or foggy night scene, taken at street level. A man stands on the sidewalk in the middle distance looking toward a building with a sign that says “The Times”. Lamp lights glow gauzily along the sidewalk and down the street, reflecting off the damp pavement. There is a U.S. mailbox affixed to a pole in the foreground. I did a Twitter thread a while back on this photo and others that dated it pretty conclusively to Nov 1899 based on some of the posters visible.
November 26, 2025 at 11:29 PM
christyceeck.bsky.social
"One B.C. MP inside the room, however, described the meeting with the minister as quite candid & at times tense, saying Hodgson seemed dismissive of the possible political consequences for Liberal MPs in B.C.

Hodgson used words like "naive" & "ideological" when responding to MP concerns"
With Prime Minister Mark Carney expected to lay out a path forward for an oil pipeline to northwest B.C. on Thursday, senior people around him have had to assuage skittish MPs and at least one cabinet minister about the virtues of the forthcoming "grand bargain" with Alberta. One dynamic at play in this discussion is the future of Steven Guilbeault, the minister of Canadian identity and culture. Sources told CBC News there have been ongoing conversations between Guilbeault and the Prime Minister's Office, with the lifelong environmental activist expressing concern about the compromises being made on the government's climate policies to get to a deal with Alberta.
November 27, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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mlongfield.bsky.social
This isn't Doug Ford or the Province doing this. This is a municipality choosing to de-prioritize the safety of vulnerable road users to save less than $5 per resident.
adamadonaldson.bsky.social Adam A. Donaldson @adamadonaldson.bsky.social · 1d
Motion fails 6-7.

Gibson, Richardson, Guthrie, Billings, Chew, Busutill, Hauser vote against.
November 27, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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amaramarasingam.bsky.social
Interviewed my friend @markkersten.bsky.social on genocide - what is it and when is it. A good primer for those new to the topic.

For the CIDP podcast: youtu.be/9nLuYt9qL_s?...
Episode 17 - When is it Genocide? Thinking about the Crime of Crimes
YouTube video by The Centre for International and Defence Policy
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 12:33 AM