Canada

19/01/21
Author: 
Joel Lexchin
An employee inspects tablets as they move along the production line of a pharmaceutical plant. (photo: Dhiraj Singh/Bloomberg)

16 January 21

The vast majority of Canadians want a national pharmacare program, but right-wing think tanks and corporate lobbyists are battling to obstruct it. It’s time to stand up to their bullying and implement universal pharmacare so everyone can get the treatment they need.

 

18/01/21
Author: 
Seth Klein
Justin Trudeau’s long-awaited bill seeking to embed new greenhouse gas reduction targets into law provides virtually nothing in the way of robust accountability. Photo by Al.T Photography

January 15th 2021

“Winning slowly on climate is just another way of losing.”

— Bill McKibben, climate writer and co-founder of 350.org

 

17/01/21
Author: 
CCPA

C-suite payrolls are so massive they account for at least 40% of some companies’ losses

JANUARY 2, 2020

 OTTAWA — Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs made 227 times more than the average worker made in 2018, surpassing all previous records, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). That’s up from 197 times average worker pay in 2017. 

15/01/21
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Yaneer Bar-Yam

This may be something the entire environmental movement should be campaigning about -- both because it's a logical anti-COVID strategy and because it would get us more quickly back to a place where we can mobilize against other onrushing eco-disasters.        -- Gene McGuckin

8 Jan 2021

Pandemic expert urges a bold shift as highly infectious variant raises the stakes.

Canadians have a clear and urgent choice to make this month as two highly transmissible variants of COVID-19 now sweep across the globe.

11/01/21
Author: 
Elana Shepert
New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh is encouraging Canadians to sign a petition that would designate the "Proud Boys" group as a terrorist organization.Photo via New Democratic Party

Jan 8, 2021

New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh says Trudeau's government has failed to list them as a terrorist organization

New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh is encouraging Canadians to sign a petition that would designate the "Proud Boys" group as a terrorist organization.

The federal NDP is calling on the Trudeau government to immediately ban and designate the Proud Boys as a terrorist organization. 

Singh took to Twitter Thursday (Jan. 7)  to share the petition, which he encourages Canadians to sign and share, too. 

06/01/21
Author: 
Burgess Langshaw-Power
small modular reactors - U.S. Department of Energy

Jan. 4, 2021

For many kids who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, Star Trek was a big part of our childhoods. The series is filled with strange new worlds, futurist politics, and advanced technology that is almost indistinguishable from magic. Yet even as a child I knew the show was a work of science fiction. Warp speed, transporters, and phasers were all gadgets I could comprehend, but in my rational mind I knew they would never exist within my lifetime.

05/01/21
Author: 
The Energy Mix

JANUARY 5, 2021

The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan closed out the year by buying a controlling interest in a fossil gas pipeline company in Italy, with an OTPP official claiming the deal is a “low- or zero-carbon” investment.

04/01/21
Author: 
Sponsored by Socialist Project, Free Transit Toronto, and Centre for Social Justice.

[Editor: While this is mainly about Toronto the discussion is also quite relevant to other parts of Canada.]

January 3, 2021

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