Canada

24/01/25
Author: 
The Canadian Press
Four Canadian banks have joined several U.S. banks in pulling out of a global alliance that supports efforts to align lending, investment and other financial activities with the goal of achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. A person makes their way past a Toronto-Dominion Bank branch in Toronto, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. (Spencer Colby/The Canadian Press)

Jan. 18, 2025

Banks say they can go it alone to help the push toward achieving net-zero emissions

Four of Canada's biggest banks have left the UN-backed Net-Zero Banking Alliance that aims to accelerate climate action among financial institutions.

Banks including BMO, National Bank, TD Bank Group and CIBC confirmed Friday they were no longer members.

24/01/25
Author: 
Kai Nagata
Donald Trump’s billionaire backers plan LNG boom in Canada

Jan. 22, 2025

B.C. terminals key to the U.S. gas industry’s battle against renewable energy

Wall Street investment firms are betting on LNG projects in Canada as part of the “Unleashing American Energy” strategy, unveiled this week by President Donald Trump.

“We will drill, baby drill,” Trump declared to a standing ovation at his inauguration ceremony, signaling the MAGA movement’s plan to flood world markets with North American oil and gas.

21/01/25
Author: 
Jen St. Denis
BC Conservative campaign spokesperson Anthony Koch posted a photo Monday from the Canadian Embassy in Washington with Liz Truss, who lasted 49 days as the British prime minister. Party president Aisha Estey posted from Washington with the comment ‘Make Canada Great Again.’ Photos via X.

Jan. 21, 2025

Canadian right-wing figures were in Washington as the threat of a brutal trade war hangs over the country.

20/01/25
Climate Change is a Class Issue - video

Jan. 19, 2025

 

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is honoured to host Sarah Glynn and John Clarke to launch their book Climate Change is a Class Issue.

20/01/25
Author: 
Christo Aivalis
Canada’s best response to Donald Trump’s aggression? Socialism

Jan. 18, 2025

We need to start reversing 40 years of neoliberalism with economic planning and public ownership

Incoming U.S. President Donald Trump has taken to musing publicly about using “economic force” to annex Canada. The threat is so brazen that many are treating it as a joke, unable to accept that a United States President could hold such an economically existential threat over our heads. 

19/01/25
Author: 
Primary Author: Compiled by Gaye Taylor
Jasper wildfire, Laura Durno/Twitter

Jan. 15, 2025

Canada’s insurance sector is raising alarms about the potential for the country to become “uninsurable” by 2035 due to insufficient policy action on escalating climate disasters. Meanwhile, a former California insurance official has criticized the industry for underwriting the very fossil fuel projects that worsen the climate crisis.

15/01/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Jan. 15, 2025

Pension funds are gambling with Canadians’ retirement savings by placing multi-billion dollar bets on hydrogen's ability to rescue old, polluting gas pipelines from terminal decline, according to a climate finance advocacy organization. 

12/01/25
Author: 
John Woodside

Jan. 9. 2025

The Pathways Alliance’s proposed carbon capture and storage megaproject has not begun construction or even received approval, and yet its business model is already collapsing, according to a global think tank. 

12/01/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
Altadena after the fire - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/10/los-angeles-fires-the-damage-in-maps-video-and-images

Jan. 12, 2025

So now we know how the second Trump era begins: with Los Angeles on fire.

Apocalyptic, tragic and almost impossibly emblematic. The world at large is spiralling past the guardrail of 1.5 degrees while politics retreats from tackling the problem. Ten thousand homes and buildings burned, neighbours dead and neighbourhoods reduced to ash while the incoming president deflects, derides and promises more drilling for fossil fuels.

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