Canada

21/06/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Indigenous rights and climate activists gathered outside Liberty Mutual's office in Vancouver to pressure the insurance giant to stop covering Trans Mountain. Photo courtesy of Andrew Larigakis

June 21, 2021

Friday marked the end of a global week of action against insurers of Canada’s Trans Mountain pipeline and its expansion project. The protests, calling on its insurers to cut ties with the federally owned pipeline, spanned 25 actions across four continents.

20/06/21
Author: 
Sophie Birks
Illustration from the Toronto-based Keep Your Rent campaign.

 June 7, 2021

Taking on landlords can feel like an impossible task, but these organizers are winning battles, and a bigger wave of tenant organizing could acheive even more

 

As tenants trying to live through the pandemic, we’ve been stressed about paying the rent as our landlords wield the threat of eviction, often leaving us with no choice but to expose ourselves to COVID-19 in our workplaces. 

 

20/06/21
Author: 
Scott Neigh
Change the system not the climate - sign
May 25, 2021

Listen to the interview using the audio player below!

18/06/21
Author: 
Kristy Kirkup
Senator Murray Sinclair appears before the Senate Committee on Aboriginal Peoples in Ottawa, on May 28, 2019. Sinclair, the former head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, says Canadians should be prepared for the discovery of more bodies at other residential school sites across the country.  FRED CHARTRAND/THE CANADIAN PRES

JUNE 18, 2021

The federal government should pay for investigators to find out what happened to Indigenous children who died or went missing at residential schools to determine whether crimes occurred and if “cover-ups” took place, former Truth and Reconciliation Commission chair Murray Sinclair says.

In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Mr. Sinclair said a team of experienced investigators would need the power to subpoena records from governments and the churches that ran the schools, and access to the locations.

18/06/21
Author: 
Cloe Logan
A 2019 fire in British Columbia. Photo courtesy of Courtney Howard

June 16th 2021

Ashley Wohlgemuth remembers smoke, haze and chaos during the 2003 forest fires in her hometown of Barriere in British Columbia.

“During the fire here, it was like driving through a war zone. Everything was hazy. And all you could see was army vehicles and fire trucks everywhere,” said the fire chief.

Throughout the course of the 75-day-long fire, houses, businesses and jobs were lost. Air quality was extremely poor, and she remembers people noticing how it worsened their asthma.

18/06/21
Author: 
Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2014

14/06/21
Author: 
Robert Hiltz
children's shoes on steps - Photo via GoToVan on Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons.

June 11, 2021

Violence and subjugation have been at the core of this colonial project since Europeans first set foot upon these shores.

The ties that bind this country are ones of racism. Violence and subjugation against non-white people has been at the core of this colonial project since Europeans first set foot upon these shores. 

It’s the link between hundreds of unmarked graves in British Columbia, and the mass murder of a family in London, Ont. by an anti-Muslim attacker. 

Category: 
14/06/21
Author: 
Andrew Gage - Staff Lawyer
Cost menu for climate change adaptation
May 19, 2021

“Could we have the bill, please?”

When you go to a restaurant, a menu helps you select what to eat and how much you might pay for it. The Cost Menu for Climate Change Adaptation Measures (Part I), released today, helps communities figure out how to keep themselves safe from two expected impacts of climate change – wildfires and extreme precipitation – and what it might cost them.

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