Kat Tancock
@kattancock.bsky.social
Writer, reader, editor, Russian > English translator. Gardener + crafter. Syilx + Secwépemc territory, British Columbia. kattancock.com
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In 1980, Devaki Amma met with a life-threatening car accident. Her recovery was slow and excruciating.
But, amidst the darkest of the clouds, Devaki Amma found a silver lining – a native #forest she raised and planted with her own two hands.
#rewilding
www.rewildingmag.com/i-didnt-know...
But, amidst the darkest of the clouds, Devaki Amma found a silver lining – a native #forest she raised and planted with her own two hands.
#rewilding
www.rewildingmag.com/i-didnt-know...
“I didn’t know I was building a forest”
This 90-year-old woman in India offers a lesson on how small, incremental action can lead to meaningful change.
www.rewildingmag.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:44 AM
In 1980, Devaki Amma met with a life-threatening car accident. Her recovery was slow and excruciating.
But, amidst the darkest of the clouds, Devaki Amma found a silver lining – a native #forest she raised and planted with her own two hands.
#rewilding
www.rewildingmag.com/i-didnt-know...
But, amidst the darkest of the clouds, Devaki Amma found a silver lining – a native #forest she raised and planted with her own two hands.
#rewilding
www.rewildingmag.com/i-didnt-know...
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Following the end of the field season, our small team has spent the past few weeks reviewing all the data we collected during this year, and I am thrilled to announce that the wild population of this critically endangered species reached a new high this year - 427 marmots!
November 28, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Following the end of the field season, our small team has spent the past few weeks reviewing all the data we collected during this year, and I am thrilled to announce that the wild population of this critically endangered species reached a new high this year - 427 marmots!
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The arrogance is astounding.
David Cochrane asks about the fact that it would’ve been impossible for the coastal First Nations to travel from their communities to meet the feds on the timeline the govt offered.
“It’s called Zoom,” Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson responds.
Jesus CHRIST.
(Video: Scott Robertson/Twitter)
“It’s called Zoom,” Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson responds.
Jesus CHRIST.
(Video: Scott Robertson/Twitter)
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The arrogance is astounding.
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NB: Its also an AI/data centre deal (gift to big tech). The terms include:
« Constructing thousands of megawatts of AI computing power, with a “large portion” dedicated to sovereign cloud; »
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol...:
« Constructing thousands of megawatts of AI computing power, with a “large portion” dedicated to sovereign cloud; »
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol...:
Carney signs major energy agreement with Alberta, laying out conditions for new oil pipeline
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed a major new energy co-operation agreement on Thursday, outlining the conditions that need to be met for a new oil pipeline to the P...
www.bnnbloomberg.ca
November 27, 2025 at 9:34 PM
NB: Its also an AI/data centre deal (gift to big tech). The terms include:
« Constructing thousands of megawatts of AI computing power, with a “large portion” dedicated to sovereign cloud; »
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol...:
« Constructing thousands of megawatts of AI computing power, with a “large portion” dedicated to sovereign cloud; »
www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol...:
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Yesterday I was up on that pipeline route and a First Nation land guardian was explaining to me the riskiness of shipping oil on those waterways and I kept thinking: how f-ing broke is Canada that it’s thinking of doing this? This is ‘selling your kidney’ level of desperation.
Lets face it, this is a good day for oil companies, businesses, and those in the oil sector. Its a bad day for the environment and for reconciliation with Indigenous nations whose lands this thing will go over. As Blanchet stated, this is the official end of Canada's climate commitments.
Ottawa-Alberta agreement clears federal hurdles for west coast pipeline, suspends clean energy regulations
Federal government won’t implement its oil and gas emissions cap, and both sides will consult with B.C. on project, MOU says
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Yesterday I was up on that pipeline route and a First Nation land guardian was explaining to me the riskiness of shipping oil on those waterways and I kept thinking: how f-ing broke is Canada that it’s thinking of doing this? This is ‘selling your kidney’ level of desperation.
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What we have witnessed tday in this new federal-Alberta agreement is a complete abandonment of core federal climate policy and a complete abdication to the MAGA-aligned govt of Alberta and to oil & gas corporations that send huge chunks their profits to the US.
November 27, 2025 at 7:50 PM
What we have witnessed tday in this new federal-Alberta agreement is a complete abandonment of core federal climate policy and a complete abdication to the MAGA-aligned govt of Alberta and to oil & gas corporations that send huge chunks their profits to the US.
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This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.
You can find my full statement below.
You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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"You can’t just do work on the forest just once," said Secwépemc firekeeper Joe Gilchrist.
"It has to be continuous — it has to be more of a lifestyle change."
Story by Aaron Hemens.
indiginews.com/features/lon...
"It has to be continuous — it has to be more of a lifestyle change."
Story by Aaron Hemens.
indiginews.com/features/lon...
Amid climate impacts, leading Secwépemc firekeeper shares 'a better way of looking after the land'
In a time of worsening wildfires, Joe Gilchrist says cultural burning 'needs to be multiplied hundreds of times' — returning to Indigenous stewardship
indiginews.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
"You can’t just do work on the forest just once," said Secwépemc firekeeper Joe Gilchrist.
"It has to be continuous — it has to be more of a lifestyle change."
Story by Aaron Hemens.
indiginews.com/features/lon...
"It has to be continuous — it has to be more of a lifestyle change."
Story by Aaron Hemens.
indiginews.com/features/lon...
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"Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs." Couldn't agree more with colleagues @gmbutts.bsky.social @rjcsmith.bsky.social and Peter Nicholson on the only sustainable way forward for Canada www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
New data shows the world is embracing renewable energy. Canada can’t follow Trump’s fossil fuel obsession
North America at risk of becoming an island of fossil fuels in an electrifying world. Canada should take note and choose a better path.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs." Couldn't agree more with colleagues @gmbutts.bsky.social @rjcsmith.bsky.social and Peter Nicholson on the only sustainable way forward for Canada www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
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This is one of the most endangered mammals in the world – there are fewer than 400 alive in the wild right now – so it is pretty special to watch this mom and her two pups emerge from their burrow. Kids will be kids, no matter how rare your species!
P.S. they are Vancouver Island marmots
P.S. they are Vancouver Island marmots
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is one of the most endangered mammals in the world – there are fewer than 400 alive in the wild right now – so it is pretty special to watch this mom and her two pups emerge from their burrow. Kids will be kids, no matter how rare your species!
P.S. they are Vancouver Island marmots
P.S. they are Vancouver Island marmots
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"There are 14,000,000 square metres of parks, boulevards and golf courses in #Vancouver. Six million of that is lawn. We’ve transitioned 7 percent of that. We'll keep increasing as and when we can."
www.rewildingmag.com/the-city-tur...
www.rewildingmag.com/the-city-tur...
The city turning lawns into pollinator meadows
In Vancouver, a city-led (and research-backed) initiative is converting chunks of park land into wilder ecosystems.
www.rewildingmag.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
"There are 14,000,000 square metres of parks, boulevards and golf courses in #Vancouver. Six million of that is lawn. We’ve transitioned 7 percent of that. We'll keep increasing as and when we can."
www.rewildingmag.com/the-city-tur...
www.rewildingmag.com/the-city-tur...
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Australia to introduce power cuts... no, wait, free power for 3 hours a day, as the solar boom has reached its, what's the new word?, abundance phase.
HT @volts.wtf www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
HT @volts.wtf www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Australian households to get free electricity three hours a day
Saying there is enough solar power for everyone in the daytime, the federal government will direct retailers to provide three hours of free power every day to consumers.
www.abc.net.au
November 3, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Australia to introduce power cuts... no, wait, free power for 3 hours a day, as the solar boom has reached its, what's the new word?, abundance phase.
HT @volts.wtf www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
HT @volts.wtf www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Some news from me — I'm teaching a new class on freelancing at @ubcjournalism.bsky.social next term as the Asper Visiting Professor. jwam.ubc.ca/news/ubc-jou...
October 30, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Some news from me — I'm teaching a new class on freelancing at @ubcjournalism.bsky.social next term as the Asper Visiting Professor. jwam.ubc.ca/news/ubc-jou...
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"Rewilding is not just about protecting individual species. It’s about re-establishing the relationships between them, many of which are complex and poorly understood."
www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...
www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...
Why rewilders shouldn’t forget about fungi
These mostly hidden life forms have a big role to play in rewilding – and need its support, too.
www.rewildingmag.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"Rewilding is not just about protecting individual species. It’s about re-establishing the relationships between them, many of which are complex and poorly understood."
www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...
www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...
I'm still not travel writing, but I couldn't resist sharing some of my favourite spots in Vancouver with CAA Magazine: caamagazine.com/mb/adventure...
caamagazine.com
October 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I'm still not travel writing, but I couldn't resist sharing some of my favourite spots in Vancouver with CAA Magazine: caamagazine.com/mb/adventure...
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twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross
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I use Canada Post to ship out my prints. Its crucial for my business. Canada Post staff are fantastic when I go in to ship stuff out. Corner store depots are a NIGHTMARE for small businesses. Try going in with 30 packages while people are buying lotto. UPS and Fed Ex triple my costs.
October 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I use Canada Post to ship out my prints. Its crucial for my business. Canada Post staff are fantastic when I go in to ship stuff out. Corner store depots are a NIGHTMARE for small businesses. Try going in with 30 packages while people are buying lotto. UPS and Fed Ex triple my costs.
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Good read here.
Solar panels are cheap today everywhere because Germany's government created a 100,000-solar-roof program to build a pro-renewable constituency, creating the political capital for the wider subsidies that made the German industry boom and then get exported to China and made cheap
Solar panels are cheap today everywhere because Germany's government created a 100,000-solar-roof program to build a pro-renewable constituency, creating the political capital for the wider subsidies that made the German industry boom and then get exported to China and made cheap
For more than a decade, the economists have led the design of Canadian climate policies. It's time for the political scientists to take over -- and the debate over rooftop solar offers a perfect example of why. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/02/o...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/02/o...
The political case for rooftop solar
If there’s one lesson progressive politicians should take to heart from the last decade, it’s that the durability of their climate policies is more important — way, way more important — than their eco...
www.nationalobserver.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Good read here.
Solar panels are cheap today everywhere because Germany's government created a 100,000-solar-roof program to build a pro-renewable constituency, creating the political capital for the wider subsidies that made the German industry boom and then get exported to China and made cheap
Solar panels are cheap today everywhere because Germany's government created a 100,000-solar-roof program to build a pro-renewable constituency, creating the political capital for the wider subsidies that made the German industry boom and then get exported to China and made cheap
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In this OpEd, I talk about the residential schools still being built in China and Russia - and explain how that should change Canadians’ thinking about this country’s residential schools: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Residential schools still exist in our world today. This is the lesson Canadians can draw from that disturbing truth
Canadians think about residential schools as if they were a creature of the past, an ancient moral failing from which we have since evolved. But around the world new residential
www.thestar.com
September 30, 2025 at 3:13 PM
In this OpEd, I talk about the residential schools still being built in China and Russia - and explain how that should change Canadians’ thinking about this country’s residential schools: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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My driver's license comes in the mail. My health card comes in the mail. My notifications about mammograms and other imaging come by mail! Some of my income comes by mail. What if we just, I dunno, used TAXES to pay for this SERVICE?
"In response to the government's attack on our postal service and workers, effective immediately, all CUPW members at Canada Post are on a nationwide strike," CUPW said in a statement.
Canada Post workers on nationwide strike after government demands reforms | CBC News
The union representing Canada's postal workers has called for a cross-country strike in the wake of the federal government clearing the way for major reforms to Canada Post.
www.cbc.ca
September 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
My driver's license comes in the mail. My health card comes in the mail. My notifications about mammograms and other imaging come by mail! Some of my income comes by mail. What if we just, I dunno, used TAXES to pay for this SERVICE?
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@zoeyunker.bsky.social with a scoop on LNG Canada operations in Kitimat. #bcpoli
LNG Canada's fast-tracked Phase 2 breaches Canada's air standards for nitrogen dioxide in Kitimat.
That could mean growing acid rain and ground-level ozone.
"It rusts the body," said U of T prof Jeffrey Brook.
That could mean growing acid rain and ground-level ozone.
"It rusts the body," said U of T prof Jeffrey Brook.
Exclusive: LNG Expansion Brings New Health Risks to Kitimat | The Tyee
The project’s fast-tracked second phase would push a key pollutant far above current limits, documents reveal.
thetyee.ca
September 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
@zoeyunker.bsky.social with a scoop on LNG Canada operations in Kitimat. #bcpoli
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“Painting the wall brought attention to it,” says Swanson. “It got people to ask questions and to marvel over the incredible beauty of this micro universe, which we often don’t even notice.”
www.rewildingmag.com/the-muralist...
www.rewildingmag.com/the-muralist...
The muralist whose art is a conversation with nature
Cole Swanson turns to rocks, dirt and lichen to make murals that highlight what often goes unnoticed.
www.rewildingmag.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
“Painting the wall brought attention to it,” says Swanson. “It got people to ask questions and to marvel over the incredible beauty of this micro universe, which we often don’t even notice.”
www.rewildingmag.com/the-muralist...
www.rewildingmag.com/the-muralist...
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.