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Jul 14 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Great take from @parismarx on Mark Carney's use of "decarbonized oil". This is exactly the kind of corporate greenwashing that @DonDavies teamed up with MPs from other parties to ban. 🧵 1/3 Bluesky post from Paris Marx: “Liberals have been very concerned about mis- and disinformation in recent years, so when Mark Carney says carbon capture will allow for “decarbonized” oil, we should be clear that he’s engaging in active disinformation about climate change to please Danielle Smith and the Alberta oil industry.”
Last spring, these MPs worked to give Canada's Competition Act real teeth by forcing companies to PROVE environmental claims with evidence. Oil lobbyists called it "vague and overreaching."

Translation: they can't lie with impunity anymore. 2/3

thenarwhal.ca/mps-greenwashi…
The same should be true for politicians who parrot fossil fuel propaganda, including our PM. Big Oil isn't just polluting our air, land and water: it has spread its slick coating all over our national discourse. Canada's political speech needs to be decarbonized! 3/3

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May 14
Trump’s team built a snitch site targeting Canadian doctors.

Not US doctors. Ours.

It asks people to report gender-affirming care. Every province was listed.

That's not some code fluke. It's a political threat to scare Canadian health workers into silence.



🧵1/4breachmedia.ca/trump-admin-an…
At the border, same story.

Texts searched. Artists detained. Whole tours cancelled.

A trans musician pulled his US dates after the government declared it only recognizes “biological sex.”

This isn’t policy! It’s cruelty. And Canada is being dragged into it.



2/4npr.org/2025/05/12/g-s…
So where’s the elbows-up attitude from our political leaders?

In this election, the Liberal leader dodged. The Conservative denied.

Neither stood clearly to defend trans lives.

Not out of fear. Out of calculation.

They think staying quiet helps them win.

They’re wrong.

3/4
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Feb 16
With Trump’s brute force attack on Canada’s economy underway, I’m finding myself frustrated by the lack of political imagination in our national debate.

🧵...
At the same time, I’m also energized by the opportunity to advance an inspiring vision: the transformative policies we have needed for years!

voteavi.ca/donate-ideas
This week there was a bright spot - our leader @JagmeetSingh announced that an NDP government would bring back the Electric Vehicle Subsidy canceled by the Liberals this month, doubling it to $10,000 for Made-in-Canada EVs.

ndp.ca/news/singh-ann…
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Feb 9, 2024
It's disgraceful that @UBC has said nothing, done nothing about #Stickergate.

That was when someone from Hillel BC plastered
"I❤️Hamas" stickers all over campus - with the logo of a student group standing up for Palestine.

Great to see @nccm seeking justice in court.

🧵...
When I called this out months ago, Selina Robinson responded, "It was investigated, action was taken".

Since UBC had done nothing, she could only have been referring to the fact that Hillel had fired the person responsible.

What's the significance of this at this point?

2/
Selina Robinson, a front-bench government minister, was speaking as if she was Hillel BC.

This was not an isolated incident: for 4 months after Oct. 7 she acted openly as an ally and activist for the whole ecosystem of pro-Israel lobby groups.

3/
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Oct 11, 2023
The fog of war lies thick all around. It’s so hard to sort out pebbles of fact from mountains of propaganda.

But here’s one thing I know: I’m just appalled.

Appalled by what Hamas unleashed: the slaughter of civilians, homes drenched in terror and raw vengeance. 1/8
Appalled by Israel’s government on a rampage of revenge: publicly announcing war crimes, then delivering them with unprecedented ferocity (though this is far from the first time). 2/8
Appalled by how rich countries like Canada, the US and those of the EU are reverting to simple-minded, one-sided Israel-right-or-wrong-ism.

The dead and the rubble piling up in Gaza are the bitter fruit of this cynical, simple-minded worldview. 3/8
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Dec 11, 2021
Here's a 🧵 with the 2 minute speech I made at the #BCNDP convention just now.

@Ashleyzarbatany & others tried emergency resolutions and amendments to get tough resolutions against fossil fuels and supporting Wet'suwet'en land defenders to the floor.

They were all shut down.
Friends and delegates, as so many of you know, there is a pipeline-sized elephant in the room at this convention, and in this province.
And it’s time to speak its name aloud: it is our government’s continued support of fossil fuel expansion in the very teeth of a cascading climate emergency.
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Dec 9, 2021
Getting a lot of media requests to comment on the NDP grassroots Wet'suwet'en solidarity statement.

The story is getting framed in predictable/sensationalist ways, so I'll say what I have to say in this thread.
The story is not about a conflict in the NDP, or attacks on leaders (much as those headlines get clicks.)

This is a story about the conflict created by unneeded fossil fuel projects that are dividing communities and COOKING THE PLANET.
In BC, we are reeling from fires (made worse by shitty logging practices) and heat (that killed 600 people) and floods (made worse by the fires) causing TENS OF BILLIONS in damage, lives and livestock and livelihoods swept away.

Climate breakdown. It's here. It's terrifying.
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