Canada

06/01/21
Author: 
Burgess Langshaw-Power
small modular reactors - U.S. Department of Energy

Jan. 4, 2021

For many kids who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, Star Trek was a big part of our childhoods. The series is filled with strange new worlds, futurist politics, and advanced technology that is almost indistinguishable from magic. Yet even as a child I knew the show was a work of science fiction. Warp speed, transporters, and phasers were all gadgets I could comprehend, but in my rational mind I knew they would never exist within my lifetime.

05/01/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan closed out the year by buying a controlling interest in a fossil gas pipeline company in Italy, with an OTPP official claiming the deal is a “low- or zero-carbon” investment.

04/01/21
Author: 
Sponsored by Socialist Project, Free Transit Toronto, and Centre for Social Justice.

[Editor: While this is mainly about Toronto the discussion is also quite relevant to other parts of Canada.]

January 3, 2021

21/12/20
Author: 
Paris Marx
 Air Canada Plane - Photo via Roderick Eime.

Dec. 14, 2020

Neoliberal transport policies have failed Canadians, but the pandemic provides us with the perfect opportunity to rethink our priorities.

The recent news of Air Canada having received $492 million from the government’s wage subsidy at the same time as they were denying many customers refunds on their flights has caused a new wave of anger at the national carrier.

21/12/20
Author: 
Lost Creek Protection Camp
PRESS RELEASE, FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, DECEMBER 20th 2020

After demolition of Homes Creek Camp, a new occupation has begun in pipeline path near Brunette River.

21/12/20
Author: 
Chris Campbell
According to that protest camp’s organizers, Timothee Govare, with the help of a small crew, has now climbed to a 20-metre-high perch near the same area and that he plans to remain.Submitte

Dec. 19, 2020

With Trans Mountain work suspending, protesters have moved back in after camp was cleared out

Someone has re-occupied a forested Burnaby area in the way of the Trans Mountain pipeline project just days after all work on the project was stopped due to safety issues.

On Dec. 9, a protest treehouse called the Holmes Creek Protection Camp was cleared out of a wooded area just west of North Road and south of Highway 1 in Burnaby.

21/12/20
Author: 
Socialist Project

December 20, 2020

Socialism in the Time of Corona

E14. In memoriam: Leo Panitch on Empire, Socialism and November

21/12/20
Author: 
Chad Pawson
 
Workers with the SA Energy Group work on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in this undated photo. (Trans Mountain)

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