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Canadian Wildlife Conservation Photographer. Canon Ambassador. Associate Fellow @ILCP. Co-founder of @exposdwc Wildlife Conservancy. Proud Metis.

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Exposed Wildlife Conservancy is hiring!

Are you passionate about protecting and advocating for threatened apex predators like bears, wolves and cougars in Western Canada and beyond?

https://t.co/vMUZgSTK7M

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@BCyrus_12 @scottcwheeler Income loss is different than net gain or loss...the same report was quite clear that the carbon tax is a net gain to most Canadians. It reduces the use of fossil fuels, which is the point.

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@KathyBoling1 The one with blue skies.

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A reminder that I'll be posting a lot more over where the sk**s are bl** this year. I'm done w this platform other than using it to recruit ppl over to the other.

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@DamonesParrot @BCyrus_12 @scottcwheeler Care to explain? How is saying that a federal program that saves his family money and could get cut by the next gov't a 'pile of shit' tweet?

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@BCyrus_12 @scottcwheeler What do you mean less taxes? When has he promised that? Am I missing something from his whole campaign? All I've seen is the 'axe the tax' program, which will actually cost most Canadians more than the cut is worth.

[Laurie Adkin @LaurieAdkin]

This makes my blood boil. It is simply criminal for a govt to permit a private company to operate without having built a proven system for preventing toxic contamination of the environment. Asked to pay for it (after the fact), the company declares bankruptcy. Criminal.

[Joe Ceci @joececiyyc]

Things the UCP do/have done I think are terrible, #1 Allowed the return of coal mining in the Rockies, but gaslight us and say they aren’t. #easternslopes #notocoalmining #ableg #SouthernAlberta

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Please read this. It’s important.

No matter what happens with the Canadian Federal election this year, one thing will be true ��� a significant percent of Canadian voters and media will have been successfully manipulated to oppose a beneficial carbon pricing approach that was either revenue-neutral or financially beneficial to almost all Canadians, with smart pricing mechanisms well understood to be one of the most effective ways to support badly needed #ClimateCrisis mitigation, ALL because of a continually repeated political slogan as lazy as “axe the tax.”

It should take a lot more than that to get us to do something so dumb, so self-defeating, for our own future.

Why am I including the media in this? Because instead of media doing their job and constantly informing the public that the “carbon tax” is in fact a strategic rebate program that more than makes most Canadians financially whole every single time the “ax the tax” messaging is reported, they gave up on that quickly (if they did it at all). They instead fuelled a false narrative of “affordability vs climate action” that was never true (“Canadian voters are just more concerned about affordability than climate action,” I just heard that false choice again on the news). Most media eventually just started referring to the program with shorthand like “the unpopular” or “the controversial” or “the polarizing carbon tax.” Those shorthand statements are factually accurate, but they leave out that the program is unpopular because of the highly successful misinformation campaign that the media itself helped. In other words, they reported the controversy and ignored the more important story that the controversy was manufactured based on misinformation and the media itself played role in it.

At best, that’s lazy and unprofessional, and at worst that’s complicit.

We’re essentially all responsible though. We should all be a lot harder to manipulate than this. And sadly, the consequences of being such “easy marks” are going to be huge.

#ClimateCrisis #CarbonTax #AxeTheTax

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@DrTOMontgomery @pnwkate You guys are great! Thank you!!

[Deonandan @deonandan]

Growing up in Toronto in the early 70s, as I walked to school every morning, I would daily experience racist slurs shouted at me from random people on the street. It was like a sport to them. I was a child and they were much older teens. We didn't import racism. It's home grown.

[Cheryl Bozarth Soll🌎🌱🦉🇨🇦 @CherylBozarth]

The #Alberta govt; @Alberta_UCP, continues to gaslight Albertans. There’s no scientific reason, or any reason to open unlimited trapping on ‘at risk’ #wolverines! This decision was made to appease one special interest group.
Contact @ABForestryParks minister to voice your concern

[Ariel Brunner🇺🇦 #Xdissenter @ArielBrunner]

Sweden is a huge country that would need many thousands of wolves to ensure health of its ecosystems. Reducing population to a couple of hundreds means the species will remain ecologically absent.

https://t.co/L6RT3HxLqA

[Craig Bennett @CraigBennett3]

I believe that one of the hallmarks of human progress is learning to co-exist with other species that our ancestors once feared

And sadly, it often feels like we still live in the Dark Ages...

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@bruce_arthur That is gorgeous, wow!

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So now we know that wolverines should be listed as a Threatened spp in Alberta, will Minister Loewen actually pay attention to the science for once or will he continue to ignore it at the expense of our wolverines?

[Kennedy Halvorson @kentomologie]

The researchers found "that there were 955 wolverines in the province," which "falls well below an IUCN threshold for a legally listed species". They "suggest a reassessment of the wolverine status in Alberta and considering commensurate #conservation actions".

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We knew this a month ago when trapping limits were removed...more importantly, Todd Loewen, a trapper himself, knew this a month ago, yet still did what he did.

[Kennedy Halvorson @kentomologie]

@ABForestryParks Minister stated that lifting trapping limits on species like #wolverines was necessary to update population data. However, recently published research provides estimates w/o trapping, & was notably "supported by the Government of Alberta" https://t.co/tq6NMqG3js

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Absolutely ridiculous. Once again, ignoring the science.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

‘Sweden begins wolf hunt as it aims to halve endangered animal’s population’ [to a pitiful 170 individuals]

Imagine if the outcry if this were Sri Lanka killing leopards, or Botswana lions, both much trickier animals to live with.

Shame, shame on Sweden. https://t.co/QBcvdUJCup

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@rightblend What an embarrassment that lady is.

[The Fur-Bearers @FurBearers]

The Fur-Bearers’ achievements in 2024 are a direct result of the support from animal lovers across Canada. Because of you, we're closer than ever to a future where all fur-bearing animals can live wild and free. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you! https://t.co/KEsTdX7Dv0