Canada

Free public transit: A path to climate justice

28/01/23

Author:

D'Arcy Briggs

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Free public transit: A path to climate justice - illustration

Jan. 24, 2023

We are in the midst of both an environmental crisis and an affordability crisis, which are linked. The solutions on offer, from raising fares to relying on electric cars, don’t solve either problem. But increasing access to public transit is good for all workers, all riders, and the planet. Taking action for free and accessible public transit can win reforms and set us on track for climate justice.

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‘The rich and everybody else’: Financial inequality in Canada keeps growing

28/01/23

Author:

Kat Eschner

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tvo Today

John Peters is the author of “Jobs With Inequality: Financialization, Post-Democracy, and Labour Market Deregulation in Canada.” (intuilapse/iStock)

Website Editor: a 'mainstream' point of view!

Jan. 25, 2023

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5 things Canada could defund to pay for an epic just transition

28/01/23

Author:

Angele Alook, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman & Bronwen Tucker

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The Breach

Illustration - 5 things Canada could defund to pay for an epic just transition

Jan. 20, 2023

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Revealed: how US transition to electric cars threatens environmental havoc

25/01/23

Author:

Nina Lakhani

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The Guardian

Joe Biden at the GM Factory Zero in Detroit, Michigan, in November 2021. Photograph: Dominick Sokotoff/REX/Shutterstock

Jan. 24, 2023

By 2050 electric vehicles could require huge amounts of lithium for their batteries, causing damaging expansions of mining

The US’s transition to electric vehicles could require three times as much lithium as is currently produced for the entire global market, causing needless water shortages, Indigenous land grabs, and ecosystem destruction inside and outside its borders, new research finds.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

NYC pension funds take on RBC over climate plan

25/01/23

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Jan. 25, 2023

New York City pension plans are attempting to force RBC to disclose its full greenhouse gas emission targets for 2030 because the bank keeps financing fossil fuel expansion despite making net-zero pledges.

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Support Simon Fraser University student Zain Haq

24/01/23

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Dogwood BC

Jan. 24, 2023

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The unbearable cost of fossil fuel lobbying

24/01/23

Author:

Anjali Appadurai

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National Observer

January 18th 2023

The new year opened with a significant step forward for Canadian climate policy as the Glasgow Statement takes effect. Canada signed onto the policy, which promises to end international public support for the oil and gas industry, with an accompanying pledge to tackle the much higher domestic support for the industry by mid-2023.

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Direct air capture: Five things you need to know about this climate scam

24/01/23

Author:

Oakley Shelton-Thomas and Mia DiFelice, Food and Water Watch

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Popular Resistance

Jan. 21, 2023

Direct Air Capture Promises To Suck Carbon From The Sky.

But its proponents — including Big Oil — are hiding some dirty downsides. Here are five.

We know that the window is quickly closing for us to slash emissions and avoid climate change’s worst effects. So it’s easy to get excited about direct air capture: technology designed to suck carbon dioxide straight from the atmosphere.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Counting the costs and contradictions of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion

23/01/23

Author:

Marc Lee

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National Observer

TMX is scheduled to be completed by year’s end and will open as a project that could not be more ill-suited to this moment in history. Photo via 2016 Archive TMX - Kinder Morgan handout

Jan. 23, 2023

Canada’s uneasy relationship between climate change and fossil fuel development was illustrated in November 2021 when seven atmospheric rivers hit southern B.C. The “big one” starting on Nov. 13 led to massive flooding and landslides that crippled infrastructure and isolated the south coast from the rest of Canada.

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