Catherine McKenna

Big news! My book, #RunLikeaGirl, is launching in Canada & US on September 23. It’s about having the courage to run your own race-even when it’s hard. Trying to live up to the expectations of others is no way to live or make a difference. Let’s do this!🏃‍♀️💪 🏃‍♀️💪 🏃‍♀️💪 🏃‍♀️💪 #WomenLeadingonClimate

From Lula’s victory speech. Hard to argue. 🇧🇷 “We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. We cannot have monstrously large corporations earning millions and billions, paying no taxes to this country and trying to steer our election results.”

It would be nice if news headlines/reports stopped saying “BC Conservatives win first majority in a century” when the BC Liberals and Socreds won plenty of majorities and were, you know, conservative.

Great news: Peter Fry elected as first Green mayor of Vancouver! Congrats @ptfry.bsky.social! 🤛

Good.

Own your politics! Go canvassing for good people! Great night at the doors with @mikelayton.bsky.social in University-Rosedale. We need the “environmentalist-in-chief” back in City Hall! 🗳️

Thrilled to receive @VeloCanadaBikes.bsky.social’s Lifetime Achievement Award! Cycling is about getting around in healthier, cleaner, and often faster, ways! And it’s way more fun! 🙏💚🚴‍♀️

Yes. I have spoken to the toad's lawyer. Is a sentence I have typed to my editor. But when a country has the rights of nature in its constitution? Yes. Your toad DOES get a lawyer. And an ombudsperson! www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/...

Absolutely chilling about how authoritarian states like Uganda’s brutal dictatorship use surveillance technology. And appalling that software from Canadian company Magnet Forensics was used to extract cloud data from a Ugandan lawyer & novelist who was repeatedly detained & tortured.

🔌🏠💰 Today's announcement is a huge step forward to help as many as 820,000 Canadian households benefit from the efficiency and cost savings of an electric heat pump, says Clean Energy Canada's Rachel Doran. #cdnpoli #climateaction

Dear LA friends: If you’re in town later today, come to a discussion at UCLA between me and Client Earth Americas CEO @Danielle Lackey about gender, leadership & climate action, moderated by UCLA’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Nurit Katz! I promise it will be honest, inspiring and funny! 💪

"And there's a misunderstanding, which is often propagated intentionally by fossil fuel companies, that it's expensive, it's hard, it's unreliable...To be honest, the most unreliable thing is if you're trying to pass fossil fuels through the Strait of Hormuz."

"What is irrational is continuing down the road of fossil fuels. That's irrational on the costs, the risks, the impacts. It's an old technology." My comments about the opportunity of solar for all, everywhere, by 2030! #SolarForAll. Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for leading the way!

Could we please stop framing climate action as a left/right issue. It’s just a big issue that all politicians need to grapple with. Both a massive cost/risk & huge economic opportunity with clean energy transition (with big risk of stranded fossil fuel assets).

One major glitch in this piece: Carbon pricing is a conservative policy especially when revenue neutral as it uses the market to reward behaviour. It was George Schultz, a Republican, who championed it (supported by Brian Mulroney). I spent a lot of time discussing it with both.

Great worldresources.bsky.social panel discussion focused on Climate Diplomacy in a Messy World. My main points: We need coalitions of the willing across the board, diplomacy requires leaders to *lead*; climate crisis is worse, solutions are better & hard things are so do the work! #ClimateWeekNYC

Oh yes! @americaisallin.com! Great to catch up with awesome US climate leaders from Governors @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and @mattmeyerde.bsky.social, to @wadecrowfoot.bsky.social and my great friend & climate ally Gina McCarthy! #ClimateWeekNYC #LakeOntarioActually 💪

My favourite event of #ClimateWeekNYC: Women Leading on Climate! So many awesome women globally who are fearlessly speaking up, stepping up and leading climate action! 💪🏼💪🏿💪🏽💪🏻💪🏾

My favourite event of #ClimateWeekNYC: Women Leading on Climate! So many awesome women globally who are fearlessly speaking up, stepping up and leading climate action! 💪🏼💪🏿💪🏽💪🏻💪🏾

Great discussion with my friend and long-time climate ally John Kerry about climate, oceans and the need to push for more ambitious action now! #ClimateWeekNYC

Another New York City Climate Week is underway… and this year we’re talking about oceans!

Great to moderate 2026 UN @globalcompact.bsky.social Private Sector Forum on accelerating a clean, just and secure energy future for all. Thanks to the Secretary General, leading companies & governments for setting out policy, infra, market, financing needed to get action at scale! #ClimateWeekNYC

Hello #ClimateWeekNYC! ❤️🇨🇦💪

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Great piece by @petermacleod.bsky.social in today’s @thestar.com about how Alberta separatism is a sign of a bigger problem in Canadian politics. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Burns.

Canada joins European ban on Israeli settlement goods in response to rising violence nationalnewswatch.com/2026/09/08/c...

Help me find Alexandra who wrote me the loveliest note in 2017 when she was ten! That note really cheered me up on a particularly tough day. Clue: she was a member of the 12th Toronto Girl Guides and likes turtles!

Totally agree with @theglobeandmail.com’s Marcus Gee: Where’s the common sense in Doug Ford’s decision to spend tens of millions of dollars ripping out Toronto’s bike lanes???? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...

"The most surprising thing is the contrast between what the report says that we can expect for our future climate, and the level of action that the federal government and other governments in Canada are taking.” Ryan Ness, Canadian Climate Institute.

- Canada has warmed ~2C since 1948; Northern Canada ~2.6C - Since 1970 Canada has warmed nearly 2x as fast as the global average - “Human influence…is the only explanation for the collective changes observed” “The minister was not available for an interview” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...

Hamiltonians, I’m coming home! Ahead of my event with @lisahepfner.bsky.social on Sept. 14, I spoke with CHCH Morning Live about my book #RunLikeAGirl and how growing up in Hamilton helped me to be a better politician! Tickets are available now: secure.liberal.ca/Event/Hamilt...

Prime Minister Carney on how he's personally doing while facing all the hostility from the US "You focus on what you can control...We have the support of Canadians, we have the positive attitude of Canadians, it's a country that takes care of one another...I'm doing just fine" 🎥 Credit CPAC Live

We need to get smarter in Canada about linking affordability and climate action. Make EVs, heat pumps and solar more accessible and reduce Canadians reliance on expensive oil and gas to power their cars and heat & cool their homes. Save Cdns money, tackle climate, foster choice, promote innovation!

LAKE ONTARIO FOREVER! 🇨🇦 Lovely foggy swim at Cherry Beach this aft. Thanks to the awesome @toronto.ca lifeguards for your great work this summer! 🤛

We may be in the stupidest time.

Canadians chip in to buy Jamil Jivani a one-way ticket to United States

“While the decision to tough it out is iconically Canadian, Mr. Carney’s gesture will resonate far beyond Canada’s border. A gray banker, and not just any banker, but one of the leading bankers in the world, has stood up and said that there’s more to life than a little bit of money.”

The governments of Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec have agreed on terms for a sweeping $50-billion-plus hydro and wind power plan that would be North America’s largest clean energy deal — and reshape the future electricity grid in eastern Canada.

The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?

My piece in Policy - www.policymagazine.ca/canadas-peac...

I’m all for saving money. But this all comes from the wrong place: deferring infrastructure investments is a quick way to kick the can down the road. In 20 years these politicians won’t be here but you’re failing pipes. Roads and community centres will be. And that’s when the bills will be due 1/

Thank you @cathmckenna.bsky.social for telling it like it is. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Time for Canada/provinces to make this possible here too. We should be allowed to have nice things that lower bills and emissions!

Followed with: And we have the solutions. Which are better, better and better!