Indigenous and campesino communities in Cuenca, Ecuador met with Canadian ambassador Craig Kowalik yesterday.
They delivered a clear message: NO Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement, and NO to Canadian mining in the Kimsakocha páramo.
🚨 Lois climatiques bloquées. Multinationales protégées. Démocratie écartée.
Le règlement des différends entre investisseurs et États (RDIE) compromet l'action climatique dans le monde entier. Ce système hérité de l'ère coloniale privilégie les multinationales et renforce les inégalités mondiales. 👇
❌ Climate laws blocked. 💰 Corporations protected. 👀 Democracy sidelined.
Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) is undermining #climateaction worldwide.
Learn how this colonial-era system grants exclusive privileges for multinational corporations, reinforcing global inequalities. 👇
📢 For the first time in over a decade, Canada has been shamed at #COP30 as the “Fossil of the Day” — the most dishonourable award given during COPs to the countries “who are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least.”
Read our press release:
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1/3 Canada spoke at the Baku High-Level Dialogue on Adaptation today — solid words, but no real movement.
Plenty of references to the UAE Framework for Climate Resilience, indicators, the adaptation policy cycle, cooperation, etc.
All accurate and constructive — but very procedural.
“The best that can be said of Canada’s presence at COP so far is that it’s not as actively harmful as Prime Minister Carney’s major projects agenda back home. But we need better."
Read our network's analysis of Canada's performance at COP so far, & how Canada can step up in the final week. ⬇️
💥BREAKING💥 Four young Canadians just launched a lawsuit against the Canada Pension Plan investment manager, #CPP Investments, for alleged mismanagement of climate risks.
Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/4okNn1i
Congratulations @emilylowan.bsky.social and BC Greens 🎉
Tens of thousands in 70+ communities across Canada took to the streets in an unprecedented & historic cross-movement mobilisation to #DrawtheLine and demand Mark Carney & the federal government pick a side: injustice, violence, and climate destruction — or a just and safe future for all of us.✊
#DrawTheLine #Montreal
#DrawTheLine #Montreal
Scapegoating immigrants, refugees, and temporary residents is political cowardice. Canada benefits from the disposability of temporary residents and their disempowerment. Temporary residents are human commodities to this country. #BillC-2 #DrawTheLine #Montreal
I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. I'll be taking action in Montreal on Sept. 20, 2025. Will you join me? drawtheline.world?event_id=263...
"The best time for Canada to have implemented these measures would have been in the beginning of Israel’s genocide [...] The second best time, as ever, is right now."
Check out our international spotlight on the latest edition of The Political Climate.
Thrilled to be reunited with the full @canrac.bsky.social international diplomacy team in Bonn for week 2 of #SB62! 🇺🇳
As war and climate collapse accelerate, connecting multilateral climate action with justice and peoples on the ground is more urgent than ever.
This was an epic feat - we built a 95-metre wide installation to tell @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social to pick a path, say no to pipelines and YES to bold climate action. We want an E-W grid, green jobs and homes, not divisive pipelines.
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White banners laid out across Major's Hill Park spell out the words "Carney Pick a Path." One arrow points to the word "Pipelines" and towards the U.S. embassy, while the other points to the words "Climate Action" and the Parliament Buildings.
Yesterday in Major's Hill Park, beside the Parliament buildings, volunteers & organizers sent a 95-metre message to the Prime Minister. 🔥
It's time for @mark-carney.bsky.social to pick a path—pipelines, or climate action?
Learn more at CarneyPickAPath.ca.
Tomorrow in Ottawa, national climate organizations are calling on Prime Minister Carney to “pick a path” for Canada that prioritizes climate solutions—not fossil fuel expansion.
📅 Wednesday, May 21st
📍 Major’s Hill Park
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Often used to "describe" the conundrum of responsibility/complicity under authoritarian regimes, it's refreshing to see them used as inspirations for personal acts of voicing dissent.
Havel and others describing everyday acts of resistance, compliance, complicity, and subversion under authoritarianism are making a comeback into our collective inspiration on resistance.
Come join us for the Just Transition Rising!
Grab your coffee and start your day early next week with Just Transition Rising! ☀️
Together, let’s connect movements, align strategies, and build collective power for a just transition rooted in equity, solidarity, and hope. 🌱
📅 May 14 & 15
⏰ 6 - 9am ET
Register now: shorturl.at/5CmD7
Sashenka Lleshaj (PhD completed at McGill University), “The Politics of Contested Heritage: Memory, Place, and Power in Post-Communist Albania” This dissertation investigates the politics of contested heritage in contemporary Albanian politics, in particular the way that political attempts at creating a new narrative about the history and meaning of the Albanian nation engages with art, infrastructure, and national symbols. The dissertation relies on solid empirical research and is both theoretically innovative and thought-provoking. Sashenka Lleshaj (Doctorat complété à McGill University), « The Politics of Contested Heritage: Memory, Place, and Power in Post-Communist Albania » Cette thèse de doctorat examine la politique en matière d’héritage contesté dans l’Albanie d’aujourd’hui et plus précisément la manière dont les tentatives politiques de créer un nouveau récit à propos de l'histoire et de la signification de la nation albanaise interagit avec l'art, les infrastructures et les symboles nationaux. S'appuyant sur de solides recherches empiriques, cette thèse se distingue par l’originalité de son plan théorique et donne à réfléchir
Recent McGill Political Science PhD and RGCS PhD Fellow Sasha Lleshaj @sashall.bsky.social is one of the three finalists for the Canadian Political Science Association's Vincent Lemieux Prize for best dissertation. Congratulations and good luck!
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Thank you RGCS for all the support during this journey!
And on that question: If unity demands silence on the very fractures shaping our world, is it still leadership?
#elxn45 results are coming in. Follow this thread along as I track #cdnpoli climate champions who are getting elected to Canada's 45th Parliament 🧵 🗳️👇
