Capitalism

Canada’s financial heavyweights are trying to convince the federal government to let them keep pumping money into the oil and gas sector, using loopholes unsupported by climate science, confidential documents obtained by Canada’s National Observer reveal.

The Sustainable Finance Action Council (SFAC), whose members include representatives from Canada’s major banks, insurance companies and pension plans, was set up in 2021 to advise Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on how to best build a sustainable finance market.

Jan. 10, 2023

Allegations of patronage and a cozy relationship between a billionaire and a Canadian premier are threatening to upend a multibillion-dollar green energy project.

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

On January 13, Bryan D. Palmer, one of Canada’s most celebrated labour historians, will be giving the inaugural lecture at the opening of the Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education. In this essay, Palmer introduces the themes he will be elaborating in his talk.

This is not to reinforce the far-right conspiracy theories. This does not describe a "conspiracy" but part of the quite open and visible operating procedure of the ruling capitalist class in Canada as well as in the US. The only mystery is why we keep on allowing them to operate it. 

          -- Gene McGuckin

Dec. 15. 2022