Canada

The time-bomb town Ontario didn’t defuse

19/08/22

Author:

EMMA GRANEY, CHEN WANG, JEFF GRAY AND COLIN GRAF

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The first sign that something was wrong in Wheatley, Ont., came via a call to 911 on June 2, 2021, at 2:22 p.m. Building owner Whit Thiele had discovered a gas leak.

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Mr. Thiele had bought 15 Erie St. North in 2016 and turned it into a popular local pub called The Pogue, but the business had struggled during the pandemic and eventually closed.

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Canada

Ecology/Environment

LNG - Fracking

MPs raise concerns over pipeline construction obstructing salmon run

15/08/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

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National Observer

A dead salmon is photographed in the Coquihalla River near a Trans Mountain worksite. Photo by Kate Tairyan

Aug. 12, 2022

Four B.C. MPs are urging the federal government to halt the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline and expansion project at least until salmon have finished spawning. The call comes after environmental group Protect the Planet documented salmon dying near a Trans Mountain worksite in Hope, B.C., last week.

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Canada was eyeing Europe’s gas market months before Russian invasion

04/08/22

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Jonathan WIlkinson speaks at an event at the United Nations' COP26 climate conference on Nov. 6, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. Photo by Karwai Tang via COP26 / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Aug. 4, 2022

Canada was quietly trying to muscle in on Europe’s gas market months before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine pushed the continent’s energy security to mainstream attention, documents obtained by Canada’s National Observer reveal.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia

29/07/22

Author:

Ashley Braun, originally published by Hakai Magazine

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Resilience

On Calvert Island, British Columbia, the subtle rock line of an extant clam garden is a reminder of how Indigenous peoples turned the sea into a shellfish garden. Photo courtesy of the Hakai Institute

July 20, 2022

By focusing on reciprocity and the common good—both for the community and the environment—sea gardening created bountiful food without putting populations at risk of collapse.

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Cost of Coastal GasLink pipeline leaps 70% to $11.2 billion

29/07/22

Author:

Christopher Reynolds

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National Observer

Until Thursday, the cost estimate for the 670-kilometre pipeline, which aims to carry natural gas to the LNG Canada processing and export facility in Kitimat, B.C., stood at $6.6 billion. File photo

July 28th 2022

The projected cost of the contentious Coastal GasLink pipeline spanning northern British Columbia has jumped 70 per cent to $11.2 billion in the wake of a freshly inked deal between operator TC Energy Corp. and the group building a liquified natural gas terminal on the West Coast.

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Climate Collapse and the Responsibility of the Military

29/07/22

Author:

Ria Verjauw

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The Bullet

July 29, 2022

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death” – Martin Luther King.

Everything is interconnected: armed conflicts – human rights violations – environmental pollution – climate change – social injustice…

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The Growing Turmoil in Ontario Labour Relations: Can Ontario Unions Turn Things Around?

27/07/22

Author:

Doug Allan

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The Bullet

July 27, 2022

Only halfway through 2022 and we already are soon going to set a new high for strike days lost for at least the last 13 years in Ontario, with over 800,000 strike days through the first half of the year.

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Canada

Labour - Unions

Social

A Post-Apology ‘To Do’ List

27/07/22

Author:

Cindy Blackstock

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The Tyee

Nancy Saddleman (centre), 82, cries as Pope Francis gives mass in Edmonton, during his papal visit across Canada on Tuesday. Photo by Jason Franson, the Canadian Press.

The fact is that the soul-saving missionaries believed the main job of their "educational" institutions was to "get the Indian out of the child." That cannot be divorced from the simultaneous imperialist project of getting "the Indian" off the land. And the shallowness, if not blatant hypocrisy, of the Papal apology cannot be divorced from the many current battles occurring today over pushing Indigenous peoples off their lands to make way for oil/gas wells, pipelines, mines, highways, etc. etc. etc.

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If we have a recession, it will be one engineered on purpose

27/07/22

Author:

David Macdonald

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National Observer

By trying to tame inflation through interest rate hikes, the Bank of Canada is going down a well-worn path, despite the collateral damage. Photo by Pexels

July 27, 2022

So far, the story of how to cut inflation in Canada down to size has been a very simple one: higher interest rates.

If your budget isn’t squeezed and your mortgage rate isn’t up for renewal, you might say, “Yes, please!” and carry on with your summer.

Now what if I told you that every time the Bank of Canada has tried to fight high inflation with higher interest rates, a recession followed? Like, every single time over the past 60 years.

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Canada

Social