I have some big career news: I am leaving @YouthClimateLab! After 5 years of starting and supporting the org as ED, I am stepping down. It's time for the next gen of dreamers and doers to carry YCL forward, and I couldn't be more proud and excited.

PM Trudeau was just asked on the world stage @UN #ClimateAmbitionSummit what he plans to do about Canada being one of the largest fossil fuel expanders. Guess 🇨🇦 won’t be given credit for climate leadership while ignoring its biggest source of climate pollution anymore. #cdnpoli

BREAKING: In a huge win for the planet, 18 jurists from the UN have found that children can sue their own countries over climate change under a treaty called the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Children are now leading a powerful global shift in the law on climate.🙏👊

This image breaks me. At 2.7 degrees of warming, which is our present policy trajectory, two billion people will be exposed to extreme heat. 99.7% of those people live in the global South. People who have done nothing to cause this crisis. The injustice is staggering.

This move by the #Alberta Gov is mind-boggling. AB has seen the fastest growth of #solar & #wind in #Canada - attracting billions$ of investment, lowering emissions, and creating thousands of good jobs in the process #abpoli 🧵1/6

"The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope." - Teilhard de Chardin

Good work from a German ad agency which reads "protect the wildlife before it's too late"

“For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years.”

SAVE THE DATE: OTTAWA MARCH FOR TRANS RIGHTS, August 25th at 5:30PM 🏳️‍⚧️ This year, as trans people are demonized and stigmatized by anti-rights groups, we need to show up - in numbers - to defend the dignity, humanity and rights of trans, two spirit and gender diverse people.

A truly excellent paper. Outlining the current financial system's climate injustice.

Once again, homophobes and transphobes were outnumbered in a big way by Drag Story Time defenders. The kids and families had a great time, and we sent a powerful message: that hate won’t go unopposed in our city. While today was a success, we shouldn’t be so used to doing this.

No press release or tweet from Poilievre on this incident, while Singh and Trudeau have both tweeted. This was a hate motivated attack directed at the LGBTQ community -- per police. I don't think I've ever seen a national leader be totally silent on something like this before.

Canada just surpassed 5 million hectares burned this season. That's more than the entire 2016, 2019, 2020 and 2022 seasons combined.

This is not normal.

I know a lot of folks are feeling climate despair right now as we breathe in the latest climate disaster. I’m no doctor, but the best cure I’d recommend is: take action, with friends old and new. Hope is renewable. Go out and fight for it.

Sometimes a crisis hits so hard that a country needs help from others to overcome it. That’s not one-way humanitarian saviourism, it’s international solidarity. 200 South African firefighters land in Edmonton, Canada to help fight the wildfire. Sound up 🔊 https://t.co/QdXdkL8k0O

Connect the dots: bad air quality, caused by Canadian wildfires, intensified by global warming, caused by fossil fuels, produced by companies like ExxonMobil, who lied for decades about the impacts of their product.

Particularly jarring this morning to see arguments in the media to abandon or slow down climate change policies when much of the country, including the national capital itself, is blanketed in smoke from climate change-fuelled wildfires #SelfDeception #Denial

On the train to Ottawa for meetings. I'm feeling numb at the the eerie sight of these smoky skies. It's June 6 and the whole country is in flames. There are active wildfires in practically every province & territory of what is currently called Canada. #cdnpoli 1/

Stark reminder of why I’m at the Bonn UN climate talks this week pushing for the rapid phase-out of fossil fuels and phase-in of renewables. Recent fires have ravaged so many places I love across Canada. “Smoke” is now a weather pattern on my weather app. #SB58 #cdnpoli

I am looking for a postdoctoral fellow for my new SSHRC Partnership Development Grant, which focuses on climate change preparedness in Black communities in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area.