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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 8h

I guess we know now how much "excessive force and racial abuse" by the RCMP equals two days of reduced sentence for Indigenous victims of such violence. 🤨 Were the officers charged???
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British Columbia Prosecution Service seeks jail time for three Indigenous land defenders arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory - Peace Brigades International-Canada

Photo: The rally and march from Highway 16 and Main Street to the Provincial Court of British Columbia on Alfred Avenue in Smithers. The Interior News reports: “The B.C. Prosecution Service is seeking...

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 9h

Tomorrow!!! October 16th.

Energy vs Climate Podcast @energyvsclimate.bsky.social · 5d

LIVE Oct 16 - Drill & Dash: The Oil & Gas Liability Crisis
@molszyns.bsky.social, Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, joins EvC to unpack Alberta's mounting energy liability crisis.

Register and join on October 16 at 4pm ET/2pm MT:
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You're Invited - Drill & Dash: The Oil & Gas Liability Crisis with Martin Olszynski | Oct 16 at 4pm ET

Who'll be left paying the tab? Martin Olszynski, Associate Professor and Chair in Energy, Resources, & Sustainability at the University of Calgary, joins Energy vs Climate to unpack Alberta's mountin...

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Environmental Defence Canada @environmentaldefence.ca · 7d

#Media: "Recommendations that would enable [Alberta] to release partially-treated tailings into the Athabasca River using unproven technology are unacceptable and would put downstream communities and the local environment at great risk." Our full release 👇

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Indigenous, environment, health groups reject tailings treat-and-release guidance - Environmental Defence

ATHABASCA CHIPEWYAN FIRST NATION, MIKISEW CREE FIRST NATION, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, INDIGENOUS CLIMATE ACTION, KEEPERS OF THE WATER, CANADIAN PARKS AND

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 9h

Good grief. As if kowtowing ever appeases bullies. Haven't we figured that out yet?

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 1d

This new report documents the ongoing complicity of Canadian universities in violations of international law stemming from their investments and collaborations, as well as their repression of Palestinian solidarity actions. @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.institutionalcomplicity.ca

Palestine at Canadian Universities

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 11h

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Global Assessment - Brown Climate Social Science Network

Climate advocacy has not failed, climate policy has been sabotaged, explains a new open access book, Climate Obstruction: A Global Assessment.

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 18h

In which the Swedish minister for foreign affairs essentially tells Swedish citizens held captive by Israel: "You asked for it." The genociders are laughing.

Samara @samaaraa.bsky.social · 20h

„We’re going to gas you.“
It was standard for them to say that. They held up a gas cylinder and threatened to press it against us.

Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 20h

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 1d

This new report documents the ongoing complicity of Canadian universities in violations of international law stemming from their investments and collaborations, as well as their repression of Palestinian solidarity actions. @timeshighered.bsky.social
www.institutionalcomplicity.ca

Palestine at Canadian Universities

www.institutionalcomplicity.ca

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 2d

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Aryn Toombs @aryn.bsky.social · 2d

The $87 billion climate cost has always been, very clearly so, a long-term cost to the economy and not a direct City of Calgary cost to taxpayers—in fact many stories, and admin have pointed this out.

But some candidates keep using this number to campaign on.

livewirecalgary.com/2025/10/13/8...

Is there an $87 billion Calgary climate strategy funded by city taxpayers? Y/N... Candidates respond - LiveWire Calgary

Since the climate emergency declaration on the heels of Calgary’s 2021 municipal election, an $87 billion cost claim has been the rallying cry of opposition to the city’s climate strategy. Only, as re...

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 2d

A new study published in Nature Climate Action finds Woodside’s Scarborough gas project could cause 100s of heat-related deaths & exposed 500k people to unprecedented heat.

Govt can’t claim climate leadership while approving projects like this.
www.afr.com//policy/ener...

Forrest-backed study links Woodside mega-project to hundreds of deaths

The research, conducted by academics at ANU, suggests the massive offshore gas project off the coast of Western Australia will cause warming of 0.00039 degrees.

www.afr.com

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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 4d

Rewriting reality.

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Ken @cowcakes.bsky.social · 4d

The continuing environmental devastation of coal mining and burning.

Dr Bino says the results "clearly show toxic brine is leaking from Energy Australia's Mount Piper Power Station ash dump".

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Platypus vanish from river where Charles Darwin pondered evolution

Almost 190 years on, in the place where Charles Darwin first spotted a platypus, the egg-laying mammal seems to have disappeared.

www.abc.net.au

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 5d

"Wokeness" & "political correctness" have been appropriated by the far right and turned into cudgels to suppress ways of seeing that are anathema to the right--in the guise of "restoring balance" or "neutrality." @ualberta.bsky.social @ucalgary.bsky.social
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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 5d

There is, however, a deepening crisis of administrators selling out the principles of academic freedom and freedom of expression, kowtowing to right-wing governments.

Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 5d

There is no "viewpoint diversity crisis." This claim was manufactured by right-wing think tanks and is backed by no credible research.
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The viewpoint diversity debate in Canadian universities - University Affairs

Taking free inquiry seriously means rejecting unverified crisis narratives.

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 5d

Brilliant thinker and writer . . .
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Upcoming Conferences and Events - CACS-ACÉC - Canadian Association of Cultural Studies

Get information on upcoming conferences for the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies (CACS).

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 6d

This is quite a review, Winters. Not sure I need to read the book, now! 😉

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Grist @grist.org · 15d

So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why.

In The Long Heat, Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

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#BookSky #Climate #Capitalism #Business #Tech #Politics

So many climate solutions, so few emissions reductions. A new book explains why.

In The Long Heat, Wim Carton and Andreas Malm argue that capitalism has turned the climate crisis into a business opportunity.

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 6d

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Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 7d

They spend millions on constructing lies, then disseminating them.

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 7d

“The alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.”

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 7d

“Our leaders don’t make decisions in our interests unless we have the people power that’s needed to actually hold them accountable,” said Meintzer. “We have to be the reason that they feel the heat.” therockies.life/town-hall-ra... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG #CleanUpYourMess

Town Hall Rallies Albertans Against Province’s Plan to Stick Families With Oil Well Cleanup Bill

Over 160 people participated in the event, which called on the UCP to rethink its Mature Assets Strategy.

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Climate Science Legal Defense Fund @csldf.org · 7d

While climate scientists have been under attack for years, they are facing an increasing onslaught of politically motivated attacks in the current "post-truth" political environment. Check out our Pocket Guide to Handling Political Harassment & Legal Intimidation: www.csldf.org/resource/poc...

A Pocket Guide for Scientists: Handling Political Harassment and Legal Intimidation - Climate Science Legal Defense Fund

We produced this guide to educate scientists about the legal risks they may face from politically-motivated attacks.

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 7d

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Laurie Adkin, Ph.D. @laurieadkin.bsky.social · 7d

This is an important declaration; please help it get attention from politicians & media. FNs, env. orgs, & public health experts reject the industry-driven proposal to semi-treat and release oil sands tailings water into the Athabasca River.
www.indigenousclimateaction.com/entries/ukkc...

Indigenous, Environment and Health Groups Reject Inadequate Industry-led Recommendations For Treat-and-Release of Tailings — Indigenous Climate Action

Indigenous, Environment and Health Groups Reject Inadequate Industry-led Recommendations For Treat-and-Release of Tailings

www.indigenousclimateaction.com

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