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Caroline

@northernck.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 curious. savvy. spiritied. witty. PoliSci, Business grad. Former business executive with a conscience. Mentored youth at risk, young staff, entrepreneurs. Deeply concerned about our humanity in the face of growing extremism. Photography enthusiast. 🇨🇦

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · Dec 21

What Mr Poilievre won’t tell you:

2/3 of the federal budget is spent on pensions, health care, provincial transfers, welfare, defence and debt servicing.

If you are promising to lower taxes, where will you cut spending?

Which one of the above areas will Pierre Poilievre AXE Services?

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 3h

Let me know if this link to the above isn’t working

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 3h

Yes, they are

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 7h

If there’s a pathway to destroying our public healthcare sys, Pr ⁦‪Ford‬⁩ will sniff it out.
Have you no sense how many foreign-trained MDs we will lose as a result of your wrongheaded decisions, Pr?
That we should be attracting MORE, not LESS?

www.thestar.com/news/ontario...

‘Discriminatory and devastating’: New Ontario rule for medical residency that would exclude most immigrant physicians sparks outrage

The province’s health ministry now requires international medical graduates to have attended an Ontario high school for at least two years. This excludes the majority of immigrant physicians from the ...

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 7h

And hence why we need to offset the lack of federal
commitment w/ made-in-Ont plan and leader

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 7h

Just in time as women’s rights & reproductive rights is under assault by a further right Christian nationalist movement.
As only Dini Petty can

www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Dini Petty on her TV comeback at 80: ‘The cheese is still firmly on the cracker’

For a generation of Canadian women, Petty was proof you could be smart and stylish, funny and forceful.

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 9h

global transition toward low-carbon energy.”

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 9h

leader to assume the fight
@beynate.bsky.social @maritstilesndp.bsky.social :
“Ottawa is preparing to lay out a new climate-change vision that will deprioritize Canada’s commitments to reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions, in favour of focusing on ways to reap economic advantage from the global

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 9h

While we’ll need to wait for the details, what this does mean for Ont, is the critical need for our prov govt to do the heavy lifting against climate change.
That’s definitively NOT @ontariopcparty.bsky.social - we NEED a progressive/ left of centre

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Carney’s climate vision to deprioritize emissions targets, focus on economic advantages

‘Climate competitiveness strategy’ expected this month as Prime Minister seeks to reframe Canada’s approach to environment, energy

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 20h

And you’re absolutely right….we should all fear the use of that designation to cover anything and everything under the sun, when it comes to Ford

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 20h

Yes! TY

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 21h

SEZ?

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 21h

Why, indeed. We are a province of pacifists - then again, the makeup of the province has changed to a serious influx of social conservatism & anti-Govt, anti-vax folks

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 21h

Agreed

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 21h

Give ‘em heck, sir.

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

The joke is on you @liberalca.bsky.social - China is racing to electrify its grid with renewables.
And unlike in Canada, where we move at the pace of a snail, China builds things with unimaginable speed.

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

answer is yes,” Farrell said. “Most of the oil is cracked to make naphtha which goes into petrochemicals, which goes into making electric cars, to electrify the grid in Asia.”

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

answer is yes,” Farrell said. “Most of the oil is cracked to make naphtha which goes into petrochemicals, which goes into making electric cars, to electrify the grid in Asia.”

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

Commons environment committee, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who was tapped by Prime Minister Mark Carney to shepherd his major projects agenda, was asked by Bloc Québécois environment critic Patrick Bonin if she believed the pipeline contributes to the fight against climate change.

“The

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

Confirmation that PM Carney‘s choice to lead the office lacks judgement in climate science & carbon emissions.
And in turn, how we’ll judge you, PM:
“believes the Trans Mountain oil pipeline helps fight climate change.

Speaking Thursday at the House of

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...

Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

Handing over all authority to “Minister” & Cabinet of a prov govt only too ready to serve its developer allies/donors, while ignoring all the recommendations by Indigenous communities to hold the Govt to account, suggests we are in for even greater period of
corruption
thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill...

Ontario drafts special economic zone rules around minister's opinion | The Narwhal

The Doug Ford government’s draft rules for special economic zones under Bill 5 empower ministers and dismiss First Nations’ request for oversight

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

around the world.”

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

even here, the insect numbers are going down horrifyingly dramatically,” she says.

Long-term data for insect populations – particularly less charismatic species – is still patchy, but Janzen and Hallwachs join a number of scientists that have recorded huge die-offs of insects in nature reserves

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

supposedly protected regions of forest. “In the parts of Costa Rica that are heavily hit by pesticides, the insects are completely wiped out,” Hallwachs says.

“But what we see here in the preserved areas – that as far as we can tell, are free of even these destructive insecticides and pesticides –

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more frightening articles I’ve read in a long time. 93% loss of some species in North America, while the oil/gas industry plots w/ @liberal_party on how to burn even more fossil fuels:
“the catastrophic collapse of insect populations in

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/16/n...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

www.nationalobserver.com

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

emissions & the climate change afoot all around us.

Yes, you read that right.

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone in Ont waiting on PM Carney‘s Govt to assure us of some modicum of an environmental/species at risk review will slow down HWY 413 (gift from Pr Ford to his developer allies), will be disappointed - LPC considers pipelines as effective tools to mitigate carbon
thenarwhal.ca/ontario-high...

Construction starting on Highway 413: what you need to know | The Narwhal

Construction is starting on Ontario’s Highway 413 as the federal government sets its sights on fast-tracking development through Bill C-5

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