Canada

17/10/16
Author: 
Wilderness Committee
same dam process

Are you as sick of this as we are? Come out on Nov. 19th to show Justin Trudeau the West Coast won't fall for his tar sands rebrand!https://www.facebook.com/events/128002137658093/

 

14/10/16
Author: 
Roger Annis

Author and environmentalist Naomi Klein published a feature article in the Globe and Mail‘s edition of Saturday, Sept 24 in which she defends against its detractors the Leap Manifesto issued in Canada in April 2016. Her unique argument in this essay explains that Canada’s “founding economic myth” has been that of the ‘good’ created by the vast pillaging of the country’s natural resources following the arrival of settlers from Europe.

11/10/16
Author: 
CBC staff
Becky Big Canoe, co-founder of Water is Life: Coalition for Water Justice, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been 'walking backwards' in terms of Indigenous and environmental issues. (CBC)

As many Canadians celebrated Thanksgiving, Idle No More demonstrators gathered in Yonge-Dundas Square on Monday said they have "little to be thankful for" and urged Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to keep his election promises to protect Indigenous rights and the environment.

Becky Big Canoe, co-founder of Water is Life: Coalition for Water Justice, said while Trudeau has vowed to support Indigenous people across the country, he's already reneging on some election promises.

10/10/16
Author: 
Chelsea Nash
Helen Knott, of West Moberly First Nation, stands in front of Parliament during a February visit to Ottawa in which she tried to meet with cabinet ministers about her concerns over the Site C development project. The Hill Times photograph by Chelsea Nash

Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2016 12:00 AM

Indigenous leaders and activists who oppose pipelines and other natural resource development projects, such as the proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG project recently approved by the federal government, say they are not being heard by the federal government.

Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, who is president of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, said there is a distinct difference between listening, and hearing, and that the federal government is failing at the latter when it comes to the concerns of indigenous people.

09/10/16
Author: 
Carol Linnit

October 3, 2016 - Canadians could be forgiven for being a bit confused about how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is doing on climate change these days. 

Last week he approved one of the largest sources of carbon pollution in the country — the Pacific Northwest LNG export terminal in B.C.

08/10/16
Author: 
Socialist Project

The Struggle at Standing Rock:

Pipeline Protest, First Nations’ Uprising

 
View on YouTube website

“What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.” — Sitting Bull, Lakota Holy Man, Grand River.

08/10/16
Author: 
Thomas Walkom

Wed., Oct. 5, 2016 - Justin Trudeau has abandoned the illusion that logic alone will persuade all provinces to get onside with fighting climate change. That’s the upside of his pledge to have Ottawa impose a national carbon price.

The downside is that the price he set is too low to be effective.

In announcing Ottawa’s unilateral decision on Monday, Trudeau signalled that, on the climate change file at least, his quixotic attempts to achieve federal-provincial consensus have come to an end.

06/10/16
Author: 
Geoff Olson
Jody Wilson Raybould

It’s easy to make virtuous statements when you’re not even the official opposition.

“The Great Bear Rainforest is no place for a pipeline,” Justin Trudeau tweeted in 2013. Now that the Liberal leader is prime minister, apparently the GBR is just the place to slap down an LNG pipeline.

06/10/16
Author: 
Brad Hornick
Trudeau in Paris

The fresh new face Canada showed the world at the Paris COP21 climate meetings held out hope for many Canadian climate activists that a national course change was in the works.

In its less than a decade in power, the Harper government extinguished multiple important Canadian environmental laws, muzzled climate scientists, harassed environmental NGOs, created "anti-terrorism" legislation that targets First Nations and other pipeline activists, and generally introduced regressive and reactionary social policy while promoting Canada as the world's new petro-state.

05/10/16
Author: 
EarthRights International

For Immediate Release

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 3:15pm
EarthRights International
Contact: 

Valentina Stackl (USA),valentina@earthrights.org

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