Canada

Liberals see a need for speed on major projects bill. Critics warn that's risky

17/06/25
Author: 
David Thurton
Link: 
CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney has stressed that this moment requires the government to move quickly on 'nation-building projects.' (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)

June 14, 2025

Sweeping powers, level of consultation questioned as bill races through Parliament

Liberals are attempting to bulldoze their mega projects bill through Parliament, according to critics who say the legislation interferes with Indigenous rights, environmental protection and democracy itself.

The government's One Canadian Economy Act is generating controversy inside and outside the House of Commons, with some arguing it confers king-like powers to rush projects deemed in the national interest to completion.

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Canada
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Energy
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Oil - Pipelines
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On a Fast Track to Chaos

13/06/25
Author: 
Bruce McIvor
Link: 
First Peoples Law
tunnel

Jun. 12, 2025

In a misguided frenzy of ‘cutting red tape’ and fast-tracking major infrastructure projects, governments across Canada are creating the conditions for their own failure. 

 

Ontario and British Columbia have been the first to jump off a cliff without a parachute. The federal government is inching towards the edge. 

 

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British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Indigenous Peoples
Oil - Pipelines
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Trans Mountain’s financial nightmare offers lessons in the reality of pipelines

13/06/25
Author: 
Arno Kopecky
Link: 
National Observer
David Huntley on his home patio overlooking Burrard Inlet, where Aframax tankers pass by almost every day to load up on bitumen from the Trans Mountain pipeline's terminus at Westridge Marine Terminal, just out of sight below the treeline. Photo by Arno Kopecky/Canada's National Observer

Jun. 10, 2025

Every morning, David Huntley checks on the oil tanker traffic outside his home. He can see them cruise up Burrard Inlet from his living room window a few hundred metres above Westridge Marine Terminal, where the Trans Mountain pipeline ends. When I popped by for a visit on June 3, an Aframax called the Tyrrhenian Sea had just docked and was partly visible through a thicket of trees. Last time Huntley saw it here was April 20; since then, it has been to China and back. 

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Global
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Prime Minister Carney Must Take Decisive Action to End Genocide in Gaza

13/06/25
Author: 
Socialist Project
Link: 
The Bullet
End Gaza Genocide

June 13, 2025

We write as a concerned group of 412 Canadians, including academics, lawyers, former and retired ambassadors (including to the United Nations), ministers and public servants, UN human rights experts, and civil society, labour and faith leaders, all deeply concerned with the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month.

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A wealth tax could raise half a trillion dollars for a stronger, fairer Canada

08/06/25
Author: 
Alex Hemingway
Link: 
BC Society for Policy Solutions
Wealth Tax

Jun. 4, 2025

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British Columbia
Canada
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Decarbonized doublespeak

08/06/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
Link: 
National Observer
This photo provided by the Manitoba government shows wildfires in Sherridon, Man., on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Government of Manitoba)

Jun. 8, 2025

It takes a lot to make Simon Donner lose his cool. The co-chair of the feds’ advisory group on climate policy has a daily practice of swimming in the Pacific and braves the frigid water all winter long. But he couldn’t bear the blather about “decarbonized oil” spilling from the first ministers’ meeting this week.

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Alberta
Canada
Climate Change
Climate Science
Global
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CO2 levels just broke another record. Here's what that means

08/06/25
Author: 
Bridget Stringer-Holden
Link: 
CBC News
Geophysicist Ralph Keeling in his lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego, where carbon dioxide levels are tested. ( Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego)

Jun. 7, 2025

The CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii has passed 430 parts per million

When man first walked on the moon, the carbon dioxide concentration in Earth's atmosphere was 325 parts per million (ppm).

By 9/11, it was 369 ppm, and when COVID-19 shut down normal life in 2020, it had shot up to 414 parts ppm.

This week, our planet hit the highest levels ever directly recorded: 430 parts per million.

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Canada
Climate Change
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Ecology/Environment
Global
LNG - Fracking
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Israeli Products Should Have No Place In Canada

03/06/25
Author: 
Adam D.K. King
Link: 
The Maple
Photo via Labour 4 Palestine on Action Network.

June 2, 2025

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Canada
Global
Labour - Unions
Protest - Revolt
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International Mobilization for Peace, Action and Community Transformation

30/05/25
Author: 
Impact G7
Link: 
The Bullet
Windsor demo

May 30, 2025  •  

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Canada
Capitalism
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Global
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Social
USA
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Trump Is 'Destroying the American Presidency'

25/05/25
Author: 
Thomas B. Edsall
Link: 
New York Times
Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

May 20, 2025

25 May 25

One thing stands out amid all the chaos, corruption and disorder: the wanton destructiveness of the Trump presidency.

The targets of President Trump’s assaults include the law, higher education, medical research, ethical standards, America’s foreign alliances, free speech, the civil service, religion, the media and much more.

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