Climate Change

05/09/19
Author: 
Geoff Dembick
‘The Liberals effectively act as a kind of shock absorber of discontent and anger towards the elite,’ says Martin Lukacs, a journalist and author of the new book, The Trudeau Formula. Photo by EJ Hersom, Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0.

Martin Lukacs’ book ‘The Trudeau Formula’ finds the Liberals talk a good game, but don’t deliver.

04 Sep 2019

Talk a good game about transforming society on behalf of the 99 per cent, while secretly assuring the one per cent that they have nothing to worry about.

05/09/19
Author: 
Aaron Saad

If, as the maxim goes, “the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing,” we ought to ask just why it is that good people so often do nothing.

03/09/19
Author: 
Harry Cockburn
Global Climate Crisis
August 28, 2019
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Macron suggests similar aid initiative for sub-Saharan African nations as for Amazon
 
03/09/19
Author: 
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
A dock sits damaged near the Statue of Liberty, which remained closed to the public six weeks after Hurricane Sandy on December 13, 2012 in New York City. (Photo: John Moore/Getty Images)
 August 29, 2019

The assessment details anticipated declines in fish stocks as well as increases in damage by superstorms and displacement due to rising seas
 
02/09/19
Author: 
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Students take part in a climate rally in London's Parliament Square on May 24, 2019. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
 August 30, 2019

"We risk losing credibility with an entire generation of students if we cannot take action in support of the defining cause of their generation."
 
02/09/19
Author: 
Ryan Grim
Trucks drive alongside scorched fields on the BR-163 highway in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, on Aug. 23, 2019. Photo: Leo Correa/AP
 August 27 2019

TWO BRAZILIAN FIRMS owned by a top donor to President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are significantly responsible for the ongoing destruction of the Amazon rainforest, carnage that has developed into raging fires that have captivated global attention. 

28/08/19
Author: 
CBC News
The Cowichan River will start being fed by pumped water from Cowichan Lake on Thursday. (Danita Delmont/Shutterstock)

Aug 27, 2019

Dry summer conditions, low snowpack have put town's prime water source at risk

The town of Lake Cowichan on Vancouver Island will start using pumps to keep the local river flowing, due to one of the most severe droughts its watershed has experienced.

Water from Cowichan Lake will start being pumped into the Cowichan River on Thursday.

Catalyst Crofton, the company that will manage the process, says 11 droughts have plagued the Cowichan basin since 1998.

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