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jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 23h

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/sh...

Shut down the Metro Vancouver Incinerator

The Burnaby incinerator, located in an urban environment and near neighbourhoods and farms, is a major source of pollution. Touted as waste to energy, it wastes more energy than it recovers.  Bur...

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jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 3d

"Sustainable" palm oil = #greenwashing. Instead #Boycottpalmoil every time you shop. Ingredient names: STEAR GLYC PALM LAUR are generally #palmoil. Avoid these and use your wallet as a weapon! #Boycott4Wildlife 🌴🪔🩸🚜🔥☠️🧐🙊 @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/11/p...

Palm Oil Free Brands

The RSPO is a global certification scheme for palm oil that certifies palm oil as ‘sustainable’. Yet this word means absolutely nothing, as RSPO members – the biggest supermarket …

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jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 5d

This gas terminal would be built in Korea and owned by American billionaires. Tell PM Carney: no taxpayer subsidies for Ksi Lisims LNG. #cdnpoli www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/ca...

PM Carney: no taxpayer subsidies for American billionaires!

Donald Trump’s billionaire donors are pushing a new gas terminal on the coast of British Columbia. It would be 100% American owned – and built in Korea. BUT THEY WANT US TO PAY FOR IT.

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jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 10d

Tell the Canadian government to send #Marineland's surviving whales & dolphins to sanctuaries! #CdnPoli
action.animaljustice.ca/page/178914/...

Whales & Dolphins Are Suffering at Marineland - Take Action!

Tell the Canadian government to send Marineland's surviving whales & dolphins to sanctuaries!

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jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 10d

Tell Japan: shut down the ivory market, save elephant lives. action.eko.org/a/japan-ivor...

Tell Japan: Shut down the ivory market.

Every year, tens of thousands of elephants are butchered for their tusks despite a global ivory ban -- and Japan’s massive domestic market remains one of the main drivers.But we have a once-in-a-gener

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jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 12d

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...

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...

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jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 12d

Love me.
Don’t eat me.

jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 12d

World Leaders: Protect the Sumud Flotilla Now action.eko.org/a/world-lead...

World Leaders: Protect the Sumud Flotilla Now

Right now, the last remaining vessel of the Sumud Flotilla, The Marinette, is approaching Gaza's waters -- carrying brave activists who are all risking their lives to break Israel’s illegal siege on G

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Greenpeace Africa @greenpeaceafrica.org · 15d

🚨 BREAKING: Greenpeace activists are taking action at the African Energy Week in Cape Town.⁣
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They are there to present Big Oil with the big, beautiful and destructive climate bill for the damages they have caused across Africa.⁣
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#Makepolluterspay

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jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 14d

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/me...

Mercury Justice for Grassy Narrows

I just signed the Grassy Narrows petition calling on Justin Trudeau to honour his treaty obligations and commitment to reconciliation. Join me in signing here https://you.leadnow.ca/org/petitions/merc...

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jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 15d

BACKTRACKING CARNEY
Fast tracking fossil fuels.

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jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 15d

A decade later, Carney's climate wake-up call to financiers still falls on deaf ears www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/29/a...

A decade later, Carney's climate wake-up call to financiers still falls on deaf ears

Mark Carney's 'Tragedy of the Horizons' speech was a landmark moment for the financial sector to recognize climate breakdown was a severe threat, but a decade later he's flouting his own prophetic war...

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jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 21d

Tell your MP Climate Matters!
Carney needs to hear from
YOU👉🏼

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 21d

The Trudeau-era strategy of influencing policy by lobbying high-level officials isn't working for climate groups — who are now pivoting to an outsider game in an attempt to find leverage in the age of Carney.

Shut out of meetings, environmental groups fight for Carney's consideration

Replaying the Trudeau-era strategy of influencing policy by lobbying high-level officials isn't working for climate groups who are now pivoting to an outsider game in an attempt to find leverage in th...

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Rocket Gurl @rachellerockett.cloud · 21d

Cartoonishly stupid is the order of the day. Every day. All day.

rusty54.bsky.social @rusty54.bsky.social · 22d

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jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 21d

Shut out of meetings, environmental groups fight for Carney's consideration www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/23/a...

Shut out of meetings, environmental groups fight for Carney's consideration

Replaying the Trudeau-era strategy of influencing policy by lobbying high-level officials isn't working for climate groups who are now pivoting to an outsider game in an attempt to find leverage in th...

www.nationalobserver.com

jojam.bsky.social @jojam.bsky.social · 24d

The perception that a bureaucratic maze is preventing Canada from building major projects, as PM Mark Carney has argued to support his deregulatory nation-building agenda, doesn’t hold up according to a data analysis of projects already underway. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/15/a...

Carney's red tape narrative doesn't hold up

The perception that a bureaucratic maze is preventing Canada from building major projects, as Prime Minister Mark Carney has argued to support his deregulatory nation-building agenda, doesn’t hold up ...

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Bluesky Fanatic @blueskyfanatic.bsky.social · 25d

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Rocket Gurl @rachellerockett.cloud · 25d

A continuous Russian Tippy Toeing Intimidation Tactic:

NYT: Three Russian fighter jets violated the airspace of Estonia, a NATO member, in what Estonia’s foreign minister called an “unprecedentedly brazen” intrusion.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 25d

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.

An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

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BC Reality @bcreality.bsky.social · 25d

Hey @seanfraser.bsky.social when will this be considered a hate symbol in Canada?

a red hat says make america great again on it

Alt: a red hat says make america great again on it

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jayneh @jayneh.bsky.social · 25d

For #Critterday (or any day for that matter), what can be more cheerful than a Monarch butterfly on yellow flowers?
Ada Hayden Heritage Park, Ames, IA, August 2025
#insects #butterflies #originalcontent #photography 📷

A monarch butterfly in hues of rusty orange with black lines and white spots as part of its pattern is sitting with wings outstretched on the yellow flowers of a cup plant. The flowers have numerous thin petals on long spindly stems. The background is blurred meadow greenery.

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Rocket Gurl @rachellerockett.cloud · 25d

Ms Bowers:

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944

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