Canada

12/02/21
Author: 
CBC News

Feb 11, 2021

'We recognize the Inuit as the rightful custodians of this land,' say group of employees in open letter

12/02/21
Author: 
Indigenous Leaders
First Nations design on bridge

As we reach the one year anniversary of the brutal raids on Wet'suwet'en territory and the wave of incredible action across Turtle Island, the struggle continues despite the challenges of COVID-19. 

10/02/21
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Clockwise from top left: SFU professor Tim Takaro, his treehouse protest site along the TMX route in Burnaby and a sign put up warning of an injunction order in effect. Twitter / Facebook / Protect the Planet Stop TMX

February 10th 2021

A Vancouver-area public health physician is challenging the Trans Mountain pipeline in court after his protest site along the expansion route was demolished so trees could be cut down.

08/02/21
Author: 
Solidarity Winnipeg

The push to elect an ecosocialist leader of the federal Green Party signals a growing understanding that capitalism is the root cause of climate change. This is an encouraging development, and we hope this initiative succeeds.

04/02/21
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Earth 2003 image

February 4th 2021

Humanity is hurtling towards a full-blown climate crisis. To avoid that dystopian future, all the world's countries joined together five years ago and signed the Paris Agreement.

04/02/21
Author: 
Patrick DeRochie & Adam Scott
There is a yawning gap between a net-zero commitment and a plan to align actual investment decisions with the action required to maintain a safe climate, write Patrick DeRochie and Adam Scott. Photo by Nikola Jovanovic / Unsplash

February 4th 2021

Last month, one of Canada’s largest and most influential pension fund managers, the $205-billion Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP), joined a growing number of financial institutions in announcing a commitment to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.

04/02/21
Author: 
International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group

This is a further entrenchment of Harper's widely opposed Anti-Terrorism Act (Bill C-51) of 2015. A short time after that law was passed, an RCMP report identified environmentalists as "terrorists." First Nations activism, of course, has also been identified as terrorist. Trudeau, elected a few months after the law was enacted, had promised to amend it to "increase oversight," but he never seems to have gotten around to that (another campaign-trail lie).

03/02/21
Author: 
Jessica Corbett
Water protectors protested at a construction site for the Line 3 pipeline near Cloquet, Minnesota on February 2, 2021. (Photo: Line 3 Media Collective)

Feb. 2, 2021

"We are endangering future generations," said Charles King, who locked himself to construction equipment, "and that's got to stop."

After three protesters were arrested on Monday at a Minnesota construction site for Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline, more than 50 water protectors on Tuesday marched onto an easement—with two people locking themselves to an excavator—and temporarily shut down work on the contested tar sands project.

02/02/21
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Rep. Ilhan Omar (centre), the whip for the Congressional Progressive Caucus, appears on Jan. 30 with Indigenous leaders organizing to stop Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline project in Minnesota. Omar photo / Twitter

February 2nd 2021

Canada’s federal government is voicing its support for Calgary-based Enbridge’s Line 3 project in northern Minnesota as opposition to the pipeline’s construction intensifies.

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - Canada