Capitalism

Big Oil's Climate 'Education' in Canadian Schools

20/02/25

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Primary Author: Gaye Taylor

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Feb. 20, 2025

Fossil fuel companies are influencing what Canadian students learn about climate change, funding and supplying educational materials that frame the issue to serve their interests, health and climate advocates warn in a new report.

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The Corporate Coup in Global Context: An Emergency Town Hall - the recorded video

19/02/25

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Verso Books

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YouTube

The Corporate Coup in Global Context: An Emergency Town Hall

9,722 views Streamed live on Feb 17, 2025 #BlackLivesMatter

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Climate Finance and the Limits of Market Fundamentalism

16/02/25

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Susan Spronk, Karen Spring and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood

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The Bullet

Website editor: Here in a nutshell is the problem: "....tackle the climate crisis by financing public goods instead of offering incentives to private firms."

Feb. 16, 2025

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Brandi Morin in Ecuador Part 2: Indigenous resistance to a made-in-Canada mine

15/02/25

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Brandi Morin

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Ricochet Media

A highway blockade organized by Indigenous Kitchwa land defenders and allies, including CONAIE, protesting unwanted development and human rights violations by the Ecuadorian government. Photo: Ian Willms

Feb. 13, 2025

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Should Canada Switch Sides?

15/02/25

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Jen St. Denis

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The Tyee

Former CIBC top adviser Jeff Rubin says, ‘Our presumed greatest asset, which was our access to the huge, rich, dynamic American market, may now become our greatest liability.’ Photo by Justin Tang, the Canadian Press.

Feb. 14, 2025

Iconoclastic economist Jeff Rubin argues Canada might need to ally with Russia or China as the US turns away. A Tyee Q&A.

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The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation - Book Review

12/02/25

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Tony Richardson

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Anticapitalist Resistance

Nov. 1, 2023

In this insightful book review, Tony Richardson summarises and analyses Cory Doctorow's compelling arguments in his latest book about how a few powerful technology companies have come to dominate the internet and other industries.

First of all, Doctorow deals with how Big Tech took control of the internet. He argues that Lovelace, Turing, and others pioneered the internet. In other words, Amazon could not exist without its predecessors.

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Major B.C. LNG projects won’t have to pay for carbon emissions for 2 years, docs reveal

08/02/25

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Shannon Waters

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The Narwhal

The LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, B.C., will be the most emissions-intensive LNG project in the province and stands to reap the biggest benefits from a two-year grace period on paying for carbon emissions. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal

Feb. 5, 2025

B.C.’s new industrial carbon pricing system gives big emitters a break on paying for emissions. That includes most new LNG export projects

When LNG Canada becomes fully operational this year, the liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility in Kitimat, B.C., will be one of the largest sources of emissions in the province — but it likely won’t pay a cent for its carbon pollution for two full years.

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Why are we losing our heads over oil and gas tariffs?

08/02/25

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Laurie Adkin

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National Observer

When U.S. President Donald Trump says Americans do not need Canada’s oil and gas, I say, “all the better for us.” Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 5, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to place tariffs on “Canadian” oil and gas exports and poof! The climate crisis has disappeared from the political radar of Canadian politicians. Could we not try, for a minute, to keep our heads about us and remember the bigger threat that is poised to swallow us all up?

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