Canada

27/03/23
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Amnesty International
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Mar. 24, 2023

Amnesty International Canada condemns the U.S. and Canadian governments’ agreement to expand, rather than rescind, the Safe Third Country Agreement in response to border crossings at Roxham Road.

23/03/23
Author: 
System Change Not Climate Change
Hydrogen: Fossil Fuel's Latest Hype

Website editor: This is a very interesting and informative webinar about the 'spin' on hydrogen.

Mar. 22, 2023

Ashley Kosak discusses the false promise of hydrogen as a climate change "solution." Hint: It's not. Hosted by David Klein for System Change Not Climate Change

Recording of webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyZpH_lolAc

21/03/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Wildfire evacuee Rob Lessard watches from across Okanagan Lake, trying to see whether the White Rock Lake wildfire has burned his home or not. Photo by Jesse Winter / Canada's National Observer

"Canadian climate policy is considered “highly insufficient” by the independent Climate Action Tracker."

Mar. 2023

A climate bomb is ticking, and the latest report from the world’s leading climate science body is a how-to guide for defusing it, says United Nations Secretary General António Guterres.

20/03/23
Author: 
The Breach
Still - Canada’s plan to “clean up” the oil sands

Mar. 15, 2023

Watch here: https://youtu.be/kEEcYzRIDhw

Transcript:

Hello, I’m from the Canadian government with an important update about one of our most cherished traditions: turning pristine waterways into rancid waste ways.

For years, the Alberta oil sands have been dealing with a PR problem—I mean, environmental crisis.

Slimy mining leftovers that from outer space look like planetary shit stains.

20/03/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Vancouverites protesting in 2018 after Trudeau pledged $4.5 billion to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The public cost has leapt to $30.9 billion. Photo by Darryl Dyck via The Canadian Press.

Mar. 20, 2023

Shameless spin can’t excuse the burgeoning boondoggle and ‘global warming machine’ called TMX.

19/03/23
Author: 
The Editorial Board
Burnaby Now: Construction on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.Trans Mountain

Canada's big-business newspaper considers squandering $31 billion (which doesn't include lots of large related expenses like policing services) as necessary, "given Canadian political realities." The big-talk-no-action BC NDP could have changed those realities.      - Gene McGuckin

18/03/23
Author: 
Susan Rosenthal
Health care rally in Canada in 2016. (Council of Canadians/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Mar. 14, 2023

Ontario’s Bill 60 has delivered a death blow to public medicare. The provincial medical system will no longer operate as a public service but as a profit-taking business managed by the private sector.

18/03/23
Author: 
Chris Fairweather
Recent data suggests increased support for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives among union members. To understand the appeal, unions need to reckon with their own history. Photo by Justin Tang, the Canadian Press.

Mar. 17, 2023

Labour and the right might seem like strange bedfellows, but a history with nationalism left that door wide open.

According to a recent poll by Abacus Data, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are now the top choice of union members in Canada.

17/03/23
Author: 
Marco Chown Oved
Catherine McKenna
Mar. 16, 2023
 

If found to have breached competition law, companies could theoretically face a fine of $9 billion.

The Pathways Alliance of oilsands companies has blanketed the country with a false advertising campaign designed to influence government and manipulate public support for the industry with the highest carbon emissions in Canada, according to a complaint filed with the Competition Bureau on Thursday.

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