Canada

29/07/20
Author: 
David Fairey and Kaitlyn Matulewicz
Close to 60 per cent of workers in Canada don’t currently have paid sick days. Photo by Mike Graeme, submitted.

We can’t settle for temporary, overly bureaucratic solutions. Workers need reassurance now.

July 21, 2020

29/07/20
Author: 
Chelsea Nash
 Guy Smith - The Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (AUPE) president Guy Smith said his union is agitating and educating its members in preparation for a "looming battle" with the provincial government.
This fall, we will see again and again how the petitions for "a just recovery" and the calls to "build back better" must be backed up by working class defiance and working class solidarity. And not just in Alberta....
             - Gene McGuckin, retired past president, CEP Local 1129
 
July 21, 2020
  
29/07/20
Author: 
David Macdonald
Could investments to tackle our climate emergency be deployed as quickly as the financial aid to help cushion COVID-19's economic destruction? Photo by Shutterstock

July 29th 2020

In any discussion of a transition to a zero carbon economy, the question of how we pay for it always arises. For example, while the private sector, businesses and households will often save big from the adoption of more efficient technologies, someone has to pay the upfront investments.

29/07/20
Author: 
Oil Change International
 

 

We aren’t asking you to sign a petition or donate – instead we’re sharing a few interesting new resources.

28/07/20
Author: 
Yoel Minkoff, SA News Editor 

Jul. 26, 2020 

28/07/20
Author: 
Dan Healing
An oil sands extraction facility is reflected in a tailings pond near the city of Fort McMurray, Alberta on June 1, 2014. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jason Franson

July 28th 2020

Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank is joining a lengthening list of European lenders and insurance companies that say they won't back new oilsands projects.

The German bank said Monday its new fossil fuels policy will also prohibit investing in projects that use hydraulic fracturing or fracking in countries with scarce water supplies, and all new oil and gas projects in the Arctic region.

28/07/20
Author: 
Lauren Krugel

July 28th 2020

 

An environmental law group wants a court to suspend the Alberta government's inquiry into oil and gas industry critics until there's a decision on whether it's legal.

The United Conservative government contends foreign interests are bankrolling environmental opposition to Canadian fossil-fuel projects.

In June 2019, It appointed forensic accountant Steve Allan to head a public inquiry.

27/07/20
Author: 
Shelby Prokop-Millar
Canada Needs a Green New Deal - Photo Credit: (350.org / Google Images)

July 23, 2020

An Op-ed

With a recession declared in April, and a million plus Canadians unemployed, it is time for Canada to consider an economic stimulus package to address our post-pandemic economic recovery, similar to that of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal during the Great Depression; the Green New Deal.

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