Alberta

Make provinces pay for their emissions

28/10/21

Author:

Ross Belot

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Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet included green equalization in his party's platform. And under that scenario, Alberta would pay and Quebec would receive, writes Ross Belot. File photo by Andrew Meade

October 28th 2021

Equalization payment policy always produces an energized discussion in Canada, particularly between Quebec and Alberta. During a recent election, a province’s quasi-referendum on changing the concept of equalization was supported by a substantial 41 per cent. Not the one held in Alberta this month, I’m talking about Quebec.

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Dear Mr. Paulson, Re Your Recent NY Times Op-Ed about Mass Extinction

13/10/21

Author:

Adrian Ayres Fisher, originally published by Ecological Gardening

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Resilience

Teaser photo credit: Aerial photograph of open pit mine in the tar sands oil fields of Alberta, Canada.. Howl Arts Collective, Wikimedia, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tar_sands_in_alberta_2008.jpg. Modified by author-supplied photo.

Oct. 8, 2021

Dear Mr. Paulson,

You arguably are one of the most powerful, famous, and networked men in the world, with many important accomplishments. I am the completely ordinary, middle class, volunteer steward of 53 acres of publicly owned, remnant floodplain woodland situated on the banks of the Des Plaines River.

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TMX pipeline construction: increasing delays and expense

06/10/21

Author:

Andru McCracken & Laura Keil

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The Rocky Mountain Goat

Chart summarizing delays in completion of each stage of construction across the different spreads (segments) of the pipeline route. Based on analysis by West Coast Environmental Law.

Oct. 3, 2021

According to a new 28-page report by West Coast Environmental Law, the Trans Mountain Expansion Project is going to be delivered late and over budget.

Eugene Kung, a lawyer for West Coast Environmental Law helped assemble the report called: Trans Mountain: Delays into 2023 will add millions to public cost, which can be viewed here: tinyurl.com/TMX-delay

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Last of protesters in Burnaby trees removed by RCMP at Trans Mountain site

28/09/21

Author:

Jess Balzer

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Burnaby Now

RCMP tactical officers removed tree houses built by protestors trying to block Trans Mountain pipeline expansion work to continue. Screen shot/Twitter

Sept. 28, 2021

"Heartbreaking but we're not done yet"

RCMP officers moved in today (Seot. 28) to remove the last of the platforms and other items where protesters have been tree sitting to protest the Trans Mountain Pipeline expansion project for months.

Videos on social media show RCMP tactical teams preparing and then going in to remove tree houses.

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Police in cherry picker remove, arrest anti-pipeline tree-sitter in Burnaby

24/09/21

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CBC News

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CBC News

Burnaby RCMP after extracting a tree sitter from a TMX pipeline construction site in Burnaby. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

Sep 22, 2021

The man was safely removed with the assistance of officers specialized in high-angle rescue, say Burnaby RCMP

Police used a white cherry picker to extract and arrest a tree sitter Wednesday for breaching an existing court- ordered injunction at the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion worksite near North Road and Highway 1.

The man was suspended 15 metres in a tree in protest of the pipeline.

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RCMP tactical team moves in to remove Trans Mountain protesters from Burnaby trees

22/09/21

Author:

Chris Campbell

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Burnaby Now

1 / 4 RCMP in Burnaby are using a lift bucket to reach Trans Mountain protesters in trees in Burnaby.Cornelia Naylor

Sept. 22, 2021

Trees have been occupied for more than a year

RCMP tactical team members started to move in Wednesday morning in an attempt to remove Trans Mountain protesters from trees in the path of the pipeline in Burnaby.

Protesters have been occupying trees in the area for more than a year, but more people set up what have been called “skypods” in the past 10 days on land west of North Road and south of Highway 1 in Burnaby.

RCMP read out a court injunction barring anyone from blocking the path of pipeline work.

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Alberta Amazon Warehouse Could Be First To Unionize In North America

21/09/21

Author:

Candice Bernd

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Popular Resistance

Members of Teamsters Locals 987 and 362 protest outside an Amazon fulfillment center in Alberta, Canada, on July 14, 2021, after meeting with Amazon workers across the country to discuss working conditions and union organizing. COURTESY: TEAMSTERS CANADA

September 19, 2021

The struggle to unionize Amazon is shifting to Canada, where workers in Alberta could soon be the first to unionize an Amazon warehouse in North America. Workers at the “YEG1” facility in Nisku, Alberta, just outside Edmonton, filed for a union election on Monday, September 13. The election could be held in mere weeks, once the Alberta Labour Relations Board approves the application.

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Trans Mountain Pipeline (TMX) construction causing housing problems in Valemount BC

20/09/21

Author:

Andrea Arnold

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The Rocky Mountain Goat

Sept. 1, 2021

Mayor Owen Torgerson called the August 24, 2021 Valemount Council meeting to order.

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Attention, Jagmeet Singh — young voters want a leader who will stand up to Big Oil

19/09/21

Author:

Vijay Tupper

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National Observer

On the campaign trail, Jagmeet Singh has promised to end fossil fuel subsidies and has said he opposes Trans Mountain — but has refused to commit to cancelling it if he is elected. File photo by Alex Tétreault

Sept. 19, 2021

I’m a 16-year-old high school student in Burnaby, B.C. In 2019, I joined the youth climate strikes that brought a million Canadians out into the streets shortly before the last federal election.

Now, voters are headed to the polls again as many parts of the country are still reeling from a summer filled with wildfires, droughts, and deadly heat waves. Disasters like these are going to shape my future — so my generation and I are looking for leaders who have the courage to do what it takes to face the climate emergency.

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