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INVESTIGATION: Canadian news media dominated by corporate lobbyists

06/12/21
Author: 
Jon Horler
Link: 
Ricochet Media
CBC Studio - https://www.flickr.com/photos/avgeekjoe/31316941927/

Dec. 2, 2021

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A Guide To The Ruling Class’s Domination And Destruction Of Canadian Media

06/12/21
Author: 
Sam Smart
Link: 
The Maple
The Maple/Original Graphic.

So much for trying to get sympathetic media notice for progressive causes. Good thing we have the Burnaby Now, the National Observer, this new publication--The Maple, and a few others. I don't know much about small media in other parts of BC and Canada. But big media, like all big corporations, serves the "iron law of profit," not us.

     Gene McGuckin

Nov. 12, 2021

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Canada’s big banks pay out $19 billion in record bonuses

05/12/21
Author: 
Dan Darrah
Link: 
The Breach
Illustration: The Breach

Dec. 3, 2021

Big Six raising fees, despite profits hitting all-time high of $57 billion in 2021

Christmas is coming early for Canada’s bankers. 

The six largest banks hit record-breaking profits in 2021 and will pay out massive bonuses at year’s end, newly released fourth quarter earnings reports show.

On the strength of a combined $57.4 billion in profits, the Big Six are paying out $18.8 billion in bonuses before the holidays.

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How Canada became a vaccine villain

05/12/21
Author: 
Nikolas Barry-Shaw
Link: 
The Breach
image of masked people, barbed wire, vaccine vials

Dec. 5, 2021

Pharma lobbying nearly doubled before Liberal government moved to block TRIPS waiver

Until recently, nobody could accuse Justin Trudeau of being Big Pharma’s BFF. 

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Canada’s Supreme Court recognizes Wet’suwet’en law. So how is Coastal GasLink moving ahead?

03/12/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs — from left, Rob Alfred, John Ridsdale and Antoinette Austin — who oppose the Coastal GasLink pipeline take part in a rally in Smithers, B.C., on Jan. 10, 2020. File photo by Jason Franson / The Canadian Press

Dec. 2, 2021

The crisis unfolding on Wet’suwet’en territory went from simmer to boil in recent weeks, and those on the ground say the fight against the Coastal GasLink project is far from over.

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Hundreds of academics condemn RCMP, governments over Coastal GasLink crisis in open letter

03/12/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Protesters gather in Vancouver on Jan. 8, 2019, to show solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs opposing the Coastal GasLink pipeline. File photo by Michael Ruffolo

Dec. 2, 2021

Hundreds of academics have signed an open letter calling for government intervention in the wake of RCMP enforcement of an injunction granted to Coastal GasLink to build a pipeline through unceded Wet’suwet’en territory.

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Greenwash: Oil industry promotes carbon capture fantasy

30/11/21
Author: 
June Sekera and Neva Goodwin
Link: 
Climate and Capitalism
oil wells - After decades of sowing doubt about climate change and its causes, the fossil fuel industry is now presenting itself as the source of solutions.

Nov. 24, 2021

Fossil fuel production gets rebranded as “carbon management.”

The Conversation, November 23, 2021

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Time to fight climate change, not each other

30/11/21
Author: 
Yves Engler
Link: 
The Straight
Author Yves Engler argues that the federal government's decision to buy F-35 fighter jets will exacerbate the climate crisis. MASTER SGT. DONALD R. ALLEN/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Nov. 29, 2021

The Trudeau government’s plan to buy 88 new fighter jets and 15 combat vessels will do little to protect Canadians from this country’s most serious threats. And some people are angry enough to take the streets to send this message to Ottawa. Two dozen rallies were held across the country last week to oppose a fighter jet purchase that will exacerbate an existential menace.

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RCMP still clearing Indigenous lands for corporate interests

29/11/21
Author: 
Pamela Palmater
Link: 
The Breach
An RCMP officer points a gun into the tiny house in Wet'suwet'en territory. Photo: Still from footage by Michael Toledano

Nov. 26, 2021

Instead of criminalizing Indigenous peoples defending the climate and water, Canada should be taking our lead

The RCMP’s most recent actions in Wet’suwet’en territory unfolded more like a horror movie than any semblance of the rule of law in a functioning democracy. 

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‘Electrify everything’? Canada cranks fossil burning instead

29/11/21
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Link: 
National Observer
Columnist Barry Saxifrage takes us on a chart-filled tour of where we are in our climate-required energy transition.

Nov. 25, 2021

Three of humanity's greatest crises are caused by fossil fuel pollution: climate chaos, ocean acidification and the deadly smog choking cities worldwide.

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