Canada

Houston's "Housing-First" Success in Reducing Homelessness

08/03/24

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Winnipeg Free Press

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Slim hugs Jessalyn Dimanno, the manager of outreach for the Coalition for the Homeless. CALLAGHAN O’HARE / FREE PRESS

Mar. 8, 2024

HOUSTON — The bright Texas sun bears down on the cracked cement landscape behind a gas station on the city’s outskirts. Here, an elaborate makeshift structure shields its resident, a lanky man called Slim, from the elements — it can get cold at night, he says.

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Climate progress? Can’t bank on it

07/03/24

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Mar. 7, 2024

Despite commitments to align their portfolios with net-zero emissions, Canada’s largest banks are increasingly financing fossil fuel companies and pushing their decarbonization goals out of reach.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

A vision for transforming education in the face of climate and ecological breakdown

07/03/24

Author:

Heather Short

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Canadian Dimension

People from more than 160 countries participated in the People’s Climate March on September 21, 2014. It was the largest climate demonstration in history. Photo by Heather Craig/Survival Media Agency/Flickr.

Mar. 6, 2024

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The Case for a Public Green Power Company

07/03/24

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Paul Kahnert

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The Bullet

Mar. 7, 2024

While the world burns, conservative governments in both Alberta and Ontario continue to spend billions hiding and protecting their failed hydro deregulation schemes. This is money that should be spent combatting the climate crisis.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Climate Disruption Reduces Water Needed for Hydro Power

05/03/24

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Andrew Nikiforuk

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The Tyee

BC Hydro’s Revelstoke hydroelectric dam spans the Columbia River. Drought forced the utility to import expensive power from Alberta and the US in 2023. Photo via Shutterstock.

Mar. 4, 2024

Hydro Power’s Conundrum: Rising Demand in a Drier Climate

Central to low-carbon economic plans is an electricity source threatened by drought.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Calls mount for crackdown on false fossil fuel ads

05/03/24

Author:

Rochelle Baker

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National Observer

The Gitanyow and climate critics are calling on the province and federal government to tackle false advertising on LNG. Canada Action bus ad / screenshot

Mar. 5, 2024

The Gitanyow Nation is calling on both the provincial and federal governments to do something about deceptive ad campaigns that greenwash the climate impacts of liquified natural gas projects in B.C.

Its concerns relate to a deluge of paid ads across the province touting claims by gas companies that LNG is somehow a green source of energy aligned with net-zero emissions targets.

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Canadian LNG Will Stall Asia’s Shift to Renewables, Energy Experts in Asia Say

02/03/24

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Geoff Dembicki

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DeSmog

LNG as a climate solution is 'way outdated,' says one South Korean advocate. Credit: Ken Hodge/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0 DEED)

Feb. 15, 2024

Western provinces are selling fracked gas as a global climate solution. But experts across the Pacific say that’s ‘outdated’ and inaccurate.

Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. as a global climate solution, with some industry boosters even going so far as to call Canada’s supply of the fossil fuel the “cleanest in the world.”

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Wild salmon advocates are calling for "emergency" meeting with Trudeau

01/03/24

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The Early Edition - CBC

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The Early Edition - CBC

Mar. 1, 2024

Bob Chamberlin of the First Nation Wild Salmon Alliance says bureaucrats with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans are undermining the transition away from open-net pen fish farms.

Listen here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-91-the-early-edition/clip/16046319-wild-salmon-advocates-calling-emergency-meeting-trudeau

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The pathway to doubling public transit use by 2035

29/02/24

Author:

Cloe Logan

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National Observer

Inside public transit - Photo by Lisanto 李奕良 via Unsplash

Feb. 27, 2024

Taking the bus in Halifax for Douglas Wetmore often means long wait times, crowded routes and unreliable service.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Is Ottawa changing its tune on LNG?

29/02/24

Author:

Rochelle Baker

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National Observer

After championing LNG, federal Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is now suggesting that investing in B.C.'s fossil gas export projects is risky as the transition to clean energy picks up speed. B.C. government Flickr

Feb. 29, 2024

The same week one of B.C.’s proposed LNG projects was delayed, Canada’s energy minister mused about the risk of fossil fuel investments as the clean energy transition picks up speed.

The final investment decision for the Cedar LNG project, backed by the Pembina Pipeline Corp. and the Haisla First Nation, will be postponed until mid-2024, it was announced last week.

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Canada

Hydro Power’s Conundrum: Rising Demand in a Drier Climate

Central to low-carbon economic plans is an electricity source threatened by drought.

Western provinces are selling fracked gas as a global climate solution. But experts across the Pacific say that’s ‘outdated’ and inaccurate.

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