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16/02/25
Author: 
Susan Spronk, Karen Spring and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
climate crisis protestors

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

15/02/25
Author: 
Jen St. Denis
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.

14/02/25
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
Recent public opinion polls suggest the majority of Canadians are opposed to U.S. companies taking greater ownership of natural resource projects and support using export taxes on oil and gas as a counter measure to Trump tariff threats. Natural gas worker file photo B.C. Government / Flickr

Feb. 14, 2025

The Canadian public is souring on the U.S. as Trump wields trade threats as an “economic force” to drive home his message that Canada should become the 51st state

13/02/25
Author: 
Glen Williams, Stewart Phillip
To counter the nihilistic vision of U.S. President Donald Trump and the MAGA billionaires now taking over the U.S. government, we must work together to build a bright and shining alternative, write Glen Williams/Malii and Stewart Phillip. Photo by Brandon Bell /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Feb. 12, 2025

Clean water, food security, and healthy communities are how we will outlast Trump

Some B.C. politicians are using the trade war threat posed by President Donald Trump to push for no-holds-barred resource extraction on First Nations lands.

12/02/25
Author: 
Tony Richardson
Cory Doctorow

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.

12/02/25
Author: 
ruce Lourie
What does sustainable, climate-resilient, profitable farming, at scale, look like? Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 12, 2025

The agriculture and agri-food sectors are, perhaps, the most complex, diverse and challenging sectors to work with on sustainability. There are several efforts underway in Canada, some national and some regional, some focused on smaller-scale farms and some with large industrial agri-food interests, but there is not a cohesive sense of the endgame.  What does sustainable, climate-resilient, profitable farming, at scale, look like?

11/02/25
Author: 
Damien Gayle
A police officer appears to film Just Stop Oil activists on Whitehall near Parliament Square on Saturday, May 20, 2023. Photo by Alisdare Hickson/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Feb. 11, 2025

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

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