As we know, big lies can run free across borders with few people joining the dots. For example, no media has been reporting that China’s growing dispute with Canada is based on Canada’s enforcement of the Trump administration’s unilateral embargo against Iran. This is what politicians called ‘the rule of law’. In fact, it is assisting the US takedown of China’s superior IT competition – Huawei – for not obeying the illegal US embargo.
Province avoids investigation of human health impacts of fracking, despite independent scientific review warning of unknown risks to air and water
The B.C. government has quietly released its response to an independent scientific panel’s report on hydraulic fracturing as it ushers in a fracking boom to supply the LNG Canada project with unconventional gas.
Approving a pipeline while declaring a climate emergency is ‘climate change denial with a human face.’
21 Jun 2019
The Trudeau government’s recent actions — declaring a climate emergency and re-approving the Trans Mountain expansion project within two days — aren’t just hypocritical: they’re morally equivalent to climate change denial.
[Editor: video of event held in Vancouver on June 21, 2019. If you don't have time to listen to the whole event (2 hours and 44 minutes), then it is very worthwhile to go to the speech by Avi Lewis which begins just after 2:11:17. The complete program includes speakers David Suzuki, Kanahus Manuel, Harsha Walia, and Avi Lewis, with Anjali Appadurai as MC.]
