CALGARY (Reuters) - Native chiefs in the Western Canadian province of British Columbia voted on Wednesday to join some of their eastern counterparts opposed to a major pipeline project, in a move some leaders described as a step toward a national alliance aimed at blocking expansion of Alberta's oil sands industry.
Police were called to a downtown Montreal office building Wednesday after indigenous protesters shut down a public consultation over the Energy East pipeline.
Amanda Lickers says she was accompanied by about 25 people when she entered the meeting and interrupted proceedings.
As Alberta’s NDP government grapples with a cratering economy while simultaneously pondering ways to help burnish the province’s tawdry environmental image, debate inside Premier Rachel Notley’s administration has been guided somewhat by an existential question: Why are we here?
[Webpage editor's note: This short article by the author of the blog Life on the Leftis part of a discussion in Quebec among socialists and nationalists about the Canadian election. It was submitted to a bulletin associated with the journal Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme.]
We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent memory.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has acknowledged shocking details about the violence of Canada’s near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar on the country’s present. And Canada’s record on climate change is a crime against humanity’s future.
These facts are all the more jarring because they depart so dramatically from our stated values: respect for Indigenous rights, internationalism, human rights, diversity, and environmental stewardship.
A year after Imperial Metals’ (TSX: III; US-OTC: IPMLF) Mount Polly mine released 25 million cubic metres of waste into British Columbia’s Fraser River watershed after its tailings dam broke, a new report claims that the rate of serious tailings dam failures is increasing.
A year after Imperial Metals’ (TSX: III; US-OTC: IPMLF) Mount Polly mine released 25 million cubic metres of waste into British Columbia’s Fraser River watershed after its tailings dam broke, a new report claims that the rate of serious tailings dam failures is increasing.
