John Clarke is a longtime organizer in Toronto, as well as an active instructor with the Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education. He will be leading classes on the poor, activism, community/labour organizing, and how to build fighting movements in the Fall of 2026. Check leopanitchschool.ca regularly for these and other event announcements throughout the summer.
Pension Beneficiaries Fear Funds Will Pour Retirement Savings Into LNG
As the LNG Canada liquefied natural gas megaproject prepares to expand its Kitimat export facility, Canadian workers are speaking out against the possibility that their retirement savings may end up funding the project.
Pension beneficiaries who oppose fossil fuel infrastructure investments say such financing puts pension funds in breach of both their fiduciary duty and their obligation to future generations.
Every month, the Treasury Department releases a data set that almost nobody reads. No cable news chyron. No memorable acronym. It’s called the Treasury International Capital report, TIC data, and it is, for now at least, one of the more honest documents the federal government produces. Just money moving across borders, recorded in black and white.
Ian Angus introduces his new book Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth’s System, joined by Helena Sheehan, Inea Lehner, and David McNally. Hosted by Jess Spear and the Global Ecosocialist Network.
Finance minister says yes, but ATI requests show there’s no plan for how to do both — and reveal significant unpublished emissions estimates
Newfoundland and Labrador is continuing on its path of extractivism without any evidence it will be able to meet its climate targets. But the province’s finance minister isn’t worried and says his government “can do both at the same time” — working toward a just transition while expanding fossil fuel production.
The global economy has become dependent on the AI industry. Trillions of dollars are being invested into the technology and the infrastructure it relies on; in the final months of 2025, functionally all economic growth in the United States came from AI investments. This would be risky even in ideal conditions. And we are very far from ideal conditions.
We are honoured to welcome author and academic Adam Hanieh back to Toronto to deliver this year’s talk. This event marks the fourth edition of the school’s annual lecture, held in the memory of the late Leo Panitch.
Canada’s first major liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant, on the B.C. coast, has been having problems with a key piece of equipment since the facility fired up in late 2024. The companies behind the project, a consortium of foreign-owned corporations, have said it will take three years to fix the problem — a timeline experts have questions about.
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