Climate Change

17/09/24
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
NDP MP Charlie Angus pictured before a meeting of the federal Standing Committee on Natural Resources in October 2023. File photo by Natasha Bulowski / Canada's National Observer

Sept. 17, 2024

Canadian MPs are back in the capital and kicked off day one by digging into the climate and financial impacts of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion (TMX).

Over five committee meetings in coming weeks, federal ministers, experts and interest groups will testify about TMX’s impact on Canada’s climate targets, how the cost to taxpayers soared, and government plans to sell TMX.

14/09/24
Author: 
Amanda Stephenson
The Bay Street financial district of Toronto is shown on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. A new report says the proportion of Canadian business leaders who worry about climate change rose dramatically this year. File photo by The Canadian Press/Doug Ives

Sept. 12, 2024

The proportion of Canadian business leaders who say they are worried about climate change jumped dramatically in 2024.

In a newly released report by Deloitte, 85 per cent of the 129 Canadian executives surveyed between May and June of this year said they "worry all or most of the time" about climate change. 

That's a sharp increase from the 59 per cent who said they worried all or most of the time in 2023. 

14/09/24
Author: 
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report
Former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris shake hands before a presidential debate in Philadelphia, on September 10, 2024. Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images.

Sept. 12, 2024

The debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump featured a rehash of neo-liberal and imperialist talking points.

Both are committed to disastrous policies domestically and internationally.

13/09/24
Author: 
Climate and Capitalism
Methane emissions

Sept. 10, 2024

Atmospheric concentrations of methane are now the highest they’ve been for at least 800,000 years

The Global Methane Budget 2024 shows a 20 per cent increase in methane emissions from human activities in the past two decades.

13/09/24
Author: 
Jeffrey St. Clair
Trump and Harris at 2024 debate

Sept. 12, 2024

Notes from a Phoney Campaign: Catfight in Philly

 “When a politician is in opposition, he is an expert on the means to some end, and when he is in office, he is an expert on the obstacles to it.” – G.K. Chesterton

 

+ The title of this column comes from Jean-Paul Sartre’s diary of the first eight months of World War II, when he was stationed in Alsace, working as a meteorologist, watching weather balloons and recording barometric pressure, while waiting for something, anything, profound to happen.

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