Canada

22/07/22
Author: 
Bob Weber
The sun sets over Lake Superior at Pukaskwa National Park, south of Marathon, Ont., on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016. New research shows Canadian lakes are in hot water over climate change. File photo by The Canadian Press/Colin Perkel

July 20, 2022

Canadian lakes are in hot water over climate change, a new research survey has concluded.

"Canadian lakes are warming twice as fast as the rest of the lakes globally," said York University biologist Sapna Sharma, a co-author of a paper published in the journal Bioscience.

Sharma and her colleagues pored over 143 studies from around the world to try to summarize how climate change is affecting the globe's 100 million lakes.

22/07/22
Author: 
Geoff Dembicki
Members of the Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations demonstrate against the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in 2012. Together, the U.S.-based Atlas Network and the Macdonald-Laurier Institute have been pressuring the Canadian government to limit Indigenous communities' opposition to energy development in their territories. Photo: Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press

July 18, 2022

Internal documents explain why oil and gas interests would benefit from a key Indigenous declaration being ‘defeated’

This story is a collaboration between FloodlightThe Narwhal and the Guardian.

22/07/22
Author: 
Brittany Roffel
Vancouver city council has approved a motion to back a plan to take oil companies to court for their role in climate change. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)

July 21, 2022

The city would allocate up to $1 per resident to support the 'Sue Big Oil' campaign

Vancouver city council passed a motion Wednesday to allocate funds toward a potential climate lawsuit against major oil companies in Canada. 

The motion brought forward by Coun. Adriane Carr was passed in a 6-5 vote and will set aside up to $1 per Vancouver resident — or up to approximately $700,000 — to support a class action lawsuit against fossil fuel companies. 

14/07/22
Author: 
John Woodside
One in five bank directors also serves on the board of a fossil fuel company, reveals an investigation by Canada's National Observer. Illustration by Ata Ojani

July 14, 2022

In a dim, drafty room in Glasgow, the world’s most powerful bankers gather to unveil how they plan to save the planet. An ominous video plays: Earth, spinning in space, is paired with dramatic footage of sea waves crashing, busy highways and smokestacks spewing vile pollution to the skies. An alarm clock tick, tick, ticks underneath it all until the screen goes black and it rings, screeching across the hall. Flashed across the screen is the reason they’re in the room: “It’s time to finance our future.”

14/07/22
Author: 
Jake Johnson
People walk past a "we're hiring" sign posted outside of a restaurant in Arlington, Virginia on June 3, 2022. (Photo: Olivier Douliery/AFP via Getty Images)

July 13, 2022

In the wake of a higher-than-anticipated inflation reading, experts implored the Federal Reserve not to pursue more "aggressive interest rate hikes."

Hotter-than-expected inflation data published Wednesday intensified fears among progressive economists that the Federal Reserve—in its single-minded drive to tame price increases—will needlessly lock in another major interest rate hike at its policy meeting later this month, further suppressing economic demand and moving the country closer to a recession.

12/07/22
Author: 
Sam Gindin
Union organizing - illustration

 July 12, 2022

If today’s unionization rate in the US was the same as it was forty years ago (already a low bar, as that number is significantly down from the mid-1950s peak), the number of union members would be well over 30 million instead of about 17 million. In fact, though the workforce has increased by some 56 million since the early 1980s, the number of union members has fallen by over 3 million.

12/07/22
Author: 
Ben Norton, Multipolarista
Stoltenberg, Biden, Putin, Xi Jinping

July 10, 2022

NATO’s 2022 “Strategic Concept,” Its First New Plan Since 2010, Declares Russia A “Threat” And China “Systemic Challenge.”

It demonizes the Eurasian powers as “authoritarian actors” and “strategic competitors,” essentially declaring a second cold war to maintain Western hegemony.

The US-led NATO military alliance has published a historic new plan outlining its goals. The document, officially titled the 2022 “Strategic Concept,” is the first such blueprint NATO has released since 2010.

12/07/22
Author: 
James Hutt
Chris Smalls addresses attendants at the 2022 Labor Notes Conference. Photo by James Hutt.

July 2, 2022

Dispatch from the largest event in the organization’s 43-year history

The white collar crime syndicate known as Corporate America is hereby put on notice that the working people of America have had enough!
—Sean O’ Brien, Labor Notes 2022

Fuck Jeff Bezos!
—Christian Smalls, Labor Notes 2022

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