Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦
@pamelabanting.bsky.social
The Anthropocene, multispecies studies, environmental literature, psychogeography, energy humanities, wildlife. See "Wild Faces," https://read.dukeupress.edu/environmental-humanities/issue/17/1
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This is good. Get a Kleenex before watching.
Worth reading:
A thread on the MOU.
MOST IMPORTANT: Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we? 1/22
MOST IMPORTANT: Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we? 1/22
This is not a good take. Carney's move signals to the rest of Canada, and the world, that it's OK to keep building more fossil fuel projects.
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we?
Other countries will use this to justify doing the same.
Our children are watching, to see if we care about their futures. Do we?
November 29, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Worth reading:
Marking my first-year students’ essays and also wishing someone would drop off a nice mushroom lasagna for me to bake for supper.
November 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Marking my first-year students’ essays and also wishing someone would drop off a nice mushroom lasagna for me to bake for supper.
It’s going down to -25 C overnight!!
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 AM
It’s going down to -25 C overnight!!
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Two positions in Theater direction at U of R: universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Two positions in Theater direction at U of R: universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...
The UCP is just disgusting:
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 PM
The UCP is just disgusting:
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Friends our holiday sale is running from now until Dec 15th. All our titles are 30% off and we're offering free shipping on orders over $50. I know we have brilliant books, sure to please the readers on your gift giving list, or for you to enjoy! www.wolsakandwynn.ca
November 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Friends our holiday sale is running from now until Dec 15th. All our titles are 30% off and we're offering free shipping on orders over $50. I know we have brilliant books, sure to please the readers on your gift giving list, or for you to enjoy! www.wolsakandwynn.ca
In other energy-related news, reading Waubgeshig Rice's novel Moon of the Turning Leaves seems to have caused the first-year students to think quite a bit about electricity and how vulnerable we all are to potential outages and its loss. For some, it was also their favourite book on the course.
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 AM
In other energy-related news, reading Waubgeshig Rice's novel Moon of the Turning Leaves seems to have caused the first-year students to think quite a bit about electricity and how vulnerable we all are to potential outages and its loss. For some, it was also their favourite book on the course.
I see 0 mention in the UCP AGM resolution below for educating about ivermectin injuries, nor any mention of the symptoms (including death) and after-effects of covid, of which there are many. Nor of the need to study acne caused by prolonged wearing of homemade tinfoil hats.
How consumed by off-the-rails anti-science antivaxx conspiracy theories is the Alberta UCP?
Check out Resolutions #20 for UCP AGM. 👇
- Stop mRNA vaccines use in AB?
- provide vaccine detoxing (read: embrace pseudoscience)?
- educate about "vaccine injuries"?
Dark Age 2.0.
Check out Resolutions #20 for UCP AGM. 👇
- Stop mRNA vaccines use in AB?
- provide vaccine detoxing (read: embrace pseudoscience)?
- educate about "vaccine injuries"?
Dark Age 2.0.
November 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
I see 0 mention in the UCP AGM resolution below for educating about ivermectin injuries, nor any mention of the symptoms (including death) and after-effects of covid, of which there are many. Nor of the need to study acne caused by prolonged wearing of homemade tinfoil hats.
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Canada's regressive new climate policies violate international law.
New oil pipeline, gut Clean Electricity Standard (to phase out coal), kill consumer carbon tax, eliminate EV sales mandate, kill oil & gas sector emissions cap, increase fossil fuel subsidies, kill coastal oil shipping moratorium,
New oil pipeline, gut Clean Electricity Standard (to phase out coal), kill consumer carbon tax, eliminate EV sales mandate, kill oil & gas sector emissions cap, increase fossil fuel subsidies, kill coastal oil shipping moratorium,
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Canada's regressive new climate policies violate international law.
New oil pipeline, gut Clean Electricity Standard (to phase out coal), kill consumer carbon tax, eliminate EV sales mandate, kill oil & gas sector emissions cap, increase fossil fuel subsidies, kill coastal oil shipping moratorium,
New oil pipeline, gut Clean Electricity Standard (to phase out coal), kill consumer carbon tax, eliminate EV sales mandate, kill oil & gas sector emissions cap, increase fossil fuel subsidies, kill coastal oil shipping moratorium,
Jamaica and the Philippines just practically swished away. Tehran, city of 10 million+, has run out of water. Vietnam is drowning in rainstorms. And Canada, in flames most summers now, signs a MOU to build yet another bitumen pipeline and transport the product through Hecate Strait...........
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Jamaica and the Philippines just practically swished away. Tehran, city of 10 million+, has run out of water. Vietnam is drowning in rainstorms. And Canada, in flames most summers now, signs a MOU to build yet another bitumen pipeline and transport the product through Hecate Strait...........
I'm with him ⬇️. Maybe PM Carney is playing a game of 3-D chess of which I am incapable, but it seems to me more like a game of Trouble.
Liberal environmental expert evaluates Mark Carney's climate plan, denounces it, resigns #cdnpoli #ClimateCrisis www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Guilbeault quits Carney’s cabinet over energy deal with Alberta | CBC News
Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault has quit cabinet over the federal government signing Thursday’s memorandum of understanding with Alberta.
www.cbc.ca
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I'm with him ⬇️. Maybe PM Carney is playing a game of 3-D chess of which I am incapable, but it seems to me more like a game of Trouble.
As Bugs Bunny once said, and it seems apropos here, "It's the wabbit in wed/ Do-do do-do do/ It's the wabbit in wed." Smith dressed top to toe in Liberal red: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Danielle Smith Wins Even If a Pipeline Is Never Built | The Tyee
The deal with Carney boosts the premier. But a lot of people are going to hate it.
thetyee.ca
November 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
As Bugs Bunny once said, and it seems apropos here, "It's the wabbit in wed/ Do-do do-do do/ It's the wabbit in wed." Smith dressed top to toe in Liberal red: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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Canada’s clean energy future is within reach ⚡💡 Join David Suzuki, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Jordyn Burnouf, and @stephenjwt.bsky.social for Suzuki Session: The Clean Energy Opportunity.
🗓️ Dec 4 | 1–2:30 PM PST
🔗 Register: dsfdn.org/SuzukiSessio... #CleanEnergy #IndigenousLeadership #Renewables
🗓️ Dec 4 | 1–2:30 PM PST
🔗 Register: dsfdn.org/SuzukiSessio... #CleanEnergy #IndigenousLeadership #Renewables
November 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Canada’s clean energy future is within reach ⚡💡 Join David Suzuki, Melina Laboucan-Massimo, Jordyn Burnouf, and @stephenjwt.bsky.social for Suzuki Session: The Clean Energy Opportunity.
🗓️ Dec 4 | 1–2:30 PM PST
🔗 Register: dsfdn.org/SuzukiSessio... #CleanEnergy #IndigenousLeadership #Renewables
🗓️ Dec 4 | 1–2:30 PM PST
🔗 Register: dsfdn.org/SuzukiSessio... #CleanEnergy #IndigenousLeadership #Renewables
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How Easter Island's giant statues were transported remained unsolved for decades. Physics, morphological analysis and a comprehensive 3D map now show the moai, or statues, were "walked" upright across the landscape using principles of lateral oscillation. buff.ly/Lj0PMep
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Alberta municipalities missing out on millions from green energy projects.
#ableg #abpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
#ableg #abpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Alberta municipalities missing out on millions from green energy projects.
#ableg #abpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
#ableg #abpoli
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Beautiful tribute by @DevinHeroux to a Canadian champion:
Colleen Jones was something wonderful to happen for anyone who knew her
#Curling #Canada #NovaScotia
www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
#Curling #Canada #NovaScotia
www.cbc.ca/sports/olymp...
Colleen Jones was something wonderful to happen for anyone who knew her | CBC Sports
Colleen Jones was a tour de force. When you were with her you felt invincible and that anything was possible. She made you a believer.
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Beautiful tribute by @DevinHeroux to a Canadian champion:
Heh, Minister Loewen, Forestry and Parks, Alberta!
"In BC’s Great Bear Rainforest, a study by CREST and Stanford University found that bear-viewing tourism generated 12 times more revenue than trophy hunting, supporting 510 jobs compared to just 11 from hunting. Protecting one bear creates a renewable source of income for a community."
Our latest piece, ‘Rewilding the Economy: Can Ecotourism Reconnect People and Planet?’, discusses how shifting even a fraction of public funding away from extraction and toward ecosystem protection would yield enormous social and economic returns.
www.exposedwildlifeconservancy.org/news/rewildi...
www.exposedwildlifeconservancy.org/news/rewildi...
November 25, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Heh, Minister Loewen, Forestry and Parks, Alberta!
First real snowfall this season. The U, without fail, sends out its snow and ice warning, telling us “never run on icy ground” and “walk like a penguin.”
There hasn’t been a single syllable about Covid, vaccines or masks for at least 3 years, but don’t slip out there!
#liability
There hasn’t been a single syllable about Covid, vaccines or masks for at least 3 years, but don’t slip out there!
#liability
November 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
First real snowfall this season. The U, without fail, sends out its snow and ice warning, telling us “never run on icy ground” and “walk like a penguin.”
There hasn’t been a single syllable about Covid, vaccines or masks for at least 3 years, but don’t slip out there!
#liability
There hasn’t been a single syllable about Covid, vaccines or masks for at least 3 years, but don’t slip out there!
#liability
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The problem with climate change is we have to convince a bunch of people that future people are actual people, when they don't even believe some currently alive people are people.
November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The problem with climate change is we have to convince a bunch of people that future people are actual people, when they don't even believe some currently alive people are people.
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Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
November 23, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.
I came on here to say re: The Guardian article about audiobooks that narrators are characters or figures within a text, not actors standing in a sound studio reading books. They aren’t narrators; they’re readers.
It’s fine to enjoy listening to a book read aloud. But an audiobook is not the book.
It’s fine to enjoy listening to a book read aloud. But an audiobook is not the book.
November 23, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I came on here to say re: The Guardian article about audiobooks that narrators are characters or figures within a text, not actors standing in a sound studio reading books. They aren’t narrators; they’re readers.
It’s fine to enjoy listening to a book read aloud. But an audiobook is not the book.
It’s fine to enjoy listening to a book read aloud. But an audiobook is not the book.
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This is what Hoekstra and PP want for Canada and Canadian women. Project 2025.
November 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This is what Hoekstra and PP want for Canada and Canadian women. Project 2025.
Why is Hecate Strait so treacherously dangerous for ships?
.Andrew Scheer is an idiot (but I knew this years ago). The Hecate Strait is dangerous indeed - why? It’s SHALLOW. It was glaciated, it’s full of sand banks and bumps and all that sediment shifts all the time.
Aldo whales
Aldo whales
I’m no fan of Elizabeth May but she’s educating us on proposed projects
November 23, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Why is Hecate Strait so treacherously dangerous for ships?
Charisma, or in some places such as Alberta their anti-charisma.
"Representative democracies do not provide for expertise in governance as representatives are elected by land mass and time span, not system, and are usually elected for charisma, not expertise." I keep saying having a *favorite politician isn't the flex ppl think. #BindingChaos #HeatherMarsh
November 22, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Charisma, or in some places such as Alberta their anti-charisma.