Claire Kraatz

@climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

Mom, wife, educator, activist. Co-founder of For Our Kids Alberta. Passionate about people and our beautiful planet. Treaty 7. She/her 🌎

@williamripple.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 4:01 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

We invite everyone (nonscientists) to endorse the Declaration of a Planetary Emergency, part of the upcoming World Scientists’ Warning to Humanity: A Third Notice. Add your name and share widely. Endorsement helps show public concern about the future of our planet. forms.gle/vAARd7mv2yS7...

@57kev.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:11 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

This is what Dem leadership should be saying but they just hide in timid and weak in the background. I don't believe ICE can be fixed it's needs to be demolished and rebuilt, if we need it at all. The demolition includes all the prisons and black sites when some very bad things are happening.

@iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 2:21 AMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

HAPPENING NOW: Protestors are marching through the streets of the University of Minnesota in demanding justice for Jane Doe! CORNELL IS CORRUPT! EXPEL THE RAPISTS, LOCK THEM UP!

@ledevoir.com Oct 9, 2026, 6:34 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

Un jugement rendu cette semaine conclut que Rebel News ne produit pas suffisamment de contenu de nouvelles originales. #médias

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 9:00 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

Zelenskyy says Trump has betrayed Ukraine.

@maxfawcett.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 8:22 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

I know we focus a lot on the various failings of Jeff Rath and Mitch Sylvestre -- and we should! -- but Dennis Modry isn't any better.

From earlier this year: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

@drjaydrno.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 4:34 AMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

Wait! You’re telling me the seppie leaders are just grifters?

@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 4:54 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment.

www.nber.org/papers/w35854

Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…

@sobittersosweet.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 5:01 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

A document prepared by Energy United and Resource Works calls Canada’s policies to fight the climate crisis, protect nature and defend Indigenous Rights are a “problem,” and environmental organizations are “opponents,” @meyer.bsky.social reports

They also took aim at the Local Journalism Initiative

Carl Meyer@meyer.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 2:15 PM

A document meant for a behind-closed-doors group of fossil fuel advocates earlier this year got right to the point: Canada’s policies to fight the climate crisis, protect nature and defend Indigenous Rights are a “problem” and environmental organizations are “opponents” thenarwhal.ca/fossil-fuel-...

thenarwhal.ca‘Knowing our opponents’: how a pro-oil-and-gas group tracks journalists, First Nations and environmentalistsNew research by Greenpeace Canada lays out a web of pro-oil and gas groups working together to influence public opinion on climate change

@thenarwhal.ca Oct 9, 2026, 11:36 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

These documents, prepared for a meeting of groups advocating for the oil and gas industry, were hiding in plain sight. Our latest newsletter:

@theserfstv.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:52 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

Not only is Mark Carney subsidizing pipelines but he's actively fighting against ones for EVs and solar panels right as climate change is spiraling out of control. Genuine comic book super villain shit

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 10:11 AMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

All these years later.... I'm STILL a member of The Resistance.

Paul Marvin@paulmarvin.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 9:16 AM

@parismarx.com Oct 9, 2026, 8:19 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

In Montreal? Come to my book launch!

On October 23, join me and @rachelgilmore.bsky.social for a conversation about HYPERSCALE, the data centre backlash, and what the tech billionaires are trying to achieve with it all.

Get your ticket now: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

HYPERSCALE: an evening with author Paris Marx + local AI data centre organizers
Paris Marx in conversation with Rachel Gilmore

@lukaszukab.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 1:47 AMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

Calgary’s Pakistani community is committed to voting for Canadian unity and rejecting the other nine questions.

They truly appreciate Canada and are proud of being part of our mosaic.

#ForeverCanadian #Yyc

@brenttoderian.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:25 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com

@parismarx.com Oct 9, 2026, 1:07 AMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

if western allies of the US actually cared about human rights, they’d be denouncing this depravity

theverge.comUS plans livestream of execution by firing squadPete Hegseth: “We’ll make sure that people are able to watch it.”

@jeromyyyc.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 3:58 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

With the latest provincial overreach, Danielle Smith is now ordering me how to vote at Calgary City Council. If I refuse, I risk losing my job. I want to work constructively with the province, even when we disagree. But we must be free to listen to residents and make fair decisions.

@phillipmeintzer.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 6:22 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

This is disgusting and a total abandonment of the Alberta Energy Regulator's mandate to "provide safe, orderly, and environmentally responsible energy development." Environmental racism is putting it mildly. #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli

@thenarwhal.ca Oct 9, 2026, 1:00 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

A former director of the committee overseeing Canada-U.S. water relations says, despite President Donald Trump’s move to change the name of Lake Ontario, the real threat to the Great Lakes is a shift away from research and monitoring: “If you can’t understand the lakes, you can’t protect the lakes.”

@thebreakdownab.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 11:40 PMReposted by @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social

"The rule of law is under vicious attack in this province and I am not the first, nor will I be the last, to call this out. When an institution is silent in the face of what is happening in this province, that silence is complicity." Another resignation at the Law Society.

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