For the launch of the Bay of Quinte Green Party of Ontario Speaker Series we were so happy to have as our Inaugural guest speaker Dimitri Lascaris. He spoke on Fiscal Conservatism and how it is failing us in the fight against this pandemic and climate change.
Dimitri starts speaking about 7 minutes into the recording.
Another example of governments’ “new denialism”: make green promises and mouth/legislate commitments to reconciliation with First Nations, but just keep on trampling both in the service of fossil fuel industry profits.
Canada’s parliamentary budget officer has provoked a fresh round of suspicion about the long-term profitability of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline and expansion project.
Many Canadians have been left stunned or in tears after being told by the Canada Revenue Agency that they might need to pay back all the money they got from the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB).
Luiza Dos Anjos, 75, is a resident of Extendicare Halton Hills in Georgetown, Ont. In this photo, her family wheels her into a hospital to have her left leg partially amputated. It became infected while living in the care home. (Ivan Arsovski/CBC News)
Canada posts the fourth-worst climate performance in the world, ahead only of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United States, and no country is consistent with the overall targets in the 2015 Paris Agreement, in the latest edition of the Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) published this morning by Germanwatch, the NewClimate Institute, and Climate Action Network-International.
The annual survey rates the performance of 57 countries plus the European Union that collectively account for more than 90% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
