Canada

Jul 27, 2022

July 23, 2022

Environment minister floats extended timeline for sector, which accounts for 26 per cent of national emissions

Canada's environment minister says the federal government could give oil and gas companies extra time to fully meet 2030 emissions reduction targets.

"[We] recognize that some of the measures that will be needed to achieve those deep emission reductions might require more time than what we have between now and 2030," Steven Guilbeault said in an interview with CBC Radio's The House. 

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Jun 29, 2022

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What could plenty mean, in a finite planet?

Traditionally, socialist utopias envisioned a society based on a superabundance of essential goods which could be treated as though they were free. Thus, markets would be eroded, and the compulsion of work would be reduced.

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 Floodlight, The Narwhal and the Guardian.

July 21, 2022

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

July 14, 2022

July 14, 2022

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.

 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.