Canada

02/10/20
Author: 
Seth Klein
Wildfire smoke reached Coquitlam, BC last month. Intensifying wildfires are just one indication that we, like the rest of the planet, aren’t doing enough to stop climate change. Photo by Joshua Berson.

Oct. 2, 2020

The urgent response to the pandemic has shown us we can do it. We can’t dither another minute.

All of us who heed the warnings of climate scientists are increasingly alarmed as we stare at the harrowing gap between what the science says is necessary and what our politics seems prepared to entertain. Despite decades of calls to action, our greenhouse gas emissions are not on a path to stave off a horrific future for our children and future generations.

30/09/20
Author: 
ICLMG
RCMP Spying
RCMP must immediately halt use of new spy software and release audit of surveillance practices, says civil liberties coalition
 
30/09/20
Author: 
Alastair Sharp
Some of the 15 young people suing the federal government speak to a climate protest in Vancouver on Oct. 25, 2019, the day they launched their legal challenge. Photo supplied by David Suzuki Foundation

September 29th 2020

Lawyers for 15 young people from across Canada will plead with a federal judge this week to allow their legal fight for tougher climate action to proceed to trial.

The youngsters and their legal team argue that Canada’s actions, particularly its support of the country’s fossil fuel industry, have breached their constitutional rights to life, liberty, security and equality before the law.

30/09/20
Author: 
Katie Hyslop

Sept. 23, 2020

In wake of the controversy, federal Green leadership candidate Meryam Haddad is kicked out of the race and then reinstated by party.

 

Stuart Parker resigned as interim leader of the fledging BC Ecosocialists Party late Tuesday evening after recent social media comments that were denounced as transphobic.

29/09/20
Author: 
Jeffrey Jones
An oil sands strip mine near Fort McMurray, Alta. in 2015.  IAN WILLMS/THE NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE

Sept. 27, 2020

Proponents of a $22-billion railway linking Alberta and Alaska can start work on a host of Canadian and U.S. approvals it will require after Donald Trump announced that he will issue a presidential permit allowing the border crossing.

26/09/20
Author: 
First Nations Leaders
Things are heating up in the north!

Facebook's retaliation against organizers of actions targeting KKR's financing of CGL shows the pressure is working! Join and share the online action this Monday.

As CGL approaches drilling near the Wedzin Kwa the Gidimt'en have built a new smokehouse on the river.

26/09/20
Author: 
Ethan Cox
Meryam Haddad

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Questions remain about the disqualification of Meryam Haddad, but the party isn’t answering

On Tuesday evening Green Party leadership candidate Meryam Haddad announced that she had been expelled from the contest. By Thursday morning, facing widespread backlash from party members, the party’s appeal body overturned the expulsion and reinstated Haddad.

25/09/20
Author: 
Solidarity Winnipeg
Solidarity Winnipeg masthead

Sept. 21, 2020

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.

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