Canada

02/02/24
Author: 
John Woodside
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland responds to a question during a news conference in Ottawa on Jan. 29, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Feb. 2, 2024

A pair of new analyses from the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) finds the federal government intends to provide over $11 billion to companies investing in carbon capture and hydrogen technologies.

02/02/24
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
People gather at an October 2023 Vancouver rally in support of Palestinians in Gaza. The RCMP has confirmed it sent a controversial policing unit to rallies in cities across southern BC, but wouldn’t confirm specific dates or locations. Photo by Jen St. Denis.

Feb. 2, 2024

Referring to the demonstrations as ‘pro-Hamas,’ the force said C-IRG’s mandate and scope are expanding.

02/02/24
Author: 
Primary Author: Mitchell Beer
bank building - Unsplash/Pixabay
Jan 30, 2024
 
The pension fund that manages retirement savings for more than 21 million Canadians allowed US$100 million of those funds to be invested in industries now under the microscope after the Biden White House announced it would apply a climate test to liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports, a research and advocacy group says.
02/02/24
Author: 
Daria Shapovalova
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain  - Norway Coast

Jan. 31,2024

Norway's district court in Oslo recently made a decision on fossil fuels that deserves the attention of every person concerned about climate change.

This ruling, which compels energy firms to account for the industry's entire carbon footprint, could change the way oil and gas licenses are awarded in Norway—and inspire similar legal challenges to fossil fuel production in other countries.

01/02/24
Author: 
Max Fawcett
Ontario Premier Doug Ford participates in a discussion with future Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at the 2019 Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Feb. 1, 2024

Of all Pierre Poilievre’s familiar slogans, there’s one that stands above the rest: Canada is broken. There’s no shortage of irony there, not least because what little we know of his proposed plans and policies revolve almost exclusively around breaking things, whether it’s the CBC or Canada’s climate change policies. But the most ironic thing of all is that while Poilievre pretends Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are breaking the country, its conservative premiers are busy doing exactly that.

01/02/24
Author: 
Jeremy Appel
Canada’s op-ed pages offer one-sided support for Israel, study shows

Jan. 25, 2024

Almost 90 per cent of opinion columns recently published by Canada’s major newspapers defended Israel’s war on Gaza

A small fraction of recent opinion articles published by Canada’s major newspapers expressed opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza or support for the idea that Israel should be held accountable, an analysis by The Breach has found. 

31/01/24
Author: 
Canadian and Palestinian Coalition
embargo Israel

Jan. 31, 2024

On January 28, a coalition of Canadians and Palestinians wrote to Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly demanding that the federal government immediately halt all exports and transfers of Canadian military goods and technology to Israel.

26/01/24
Author: 
The Breach
Screenshot Quebec’s playbook for beating Big Oil - Video

Jan 10 2024

Watch here:  https://youtu.be/48QpstQLv6Q

 

Dru Oja Jay: A few years ago, a movement with hundreds of thousands of participants achieved a stunning climate justice victory, one of the world’s biggest examples of leaving fossil fuels in the ground.

26/01/24
Author: 
Benjamin Shingler
A study conducted in 2018 used aircraft to collect air samples around 17 oilsands facilities in northern Alberta. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press)

Jan. 25, 2024

Data collected by air finds levels of harmful pollutants can be more than 60 times higher than estimated

Alberta's oilsands operations produce far more potentially harmful air pollutants than are officially reported, with the daily output on par with those from gridlocked megacities like Los Angeles, new research suggests.

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