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Immigration Becoming a Political Fault Line in Canada

22/06/25

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André Turcotte

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Temporary foreign workers from Mexico plant strawberries on a farm in Mirabel, Que., Wednesday, May 6, 2020. Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press.

DeepDives is a bi-weekly essay series exploring key issues related to the economy. The goal of the series is to provide Hub readers with original analysis of the economic trends and ideas that are shaping this high-stakes moment for Canadian productivity, prosperity, and economic well-being. The series features the writing of leading academics, area experts, and policy practitioners. The DeepDives series is made possible thanks to the ongoing support of the Centre for Civic Engagement.

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The world’s oceans are a ‘ticking time bomb,’ reaching dangerous acidification levels earlier than scientists thought

20/06/25

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Georgina Gustin

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National Observer

Ocean acidification has crossed “planetary boundaries” in some parts of the ocean, deepening a crisis facing the planet’s marine ecosystems. An Unhealthy pteropod showing effects of ocean acidification including ragged, dissolving shell ridges on upper surface, a cloudy shell in lower right quadrant, and severe abrasions and weak spots at 6:30 position on lower whorl of shell. Photo by NOAA Photo Library/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Jun. 18, 2025

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

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Trans Mountain’s financial nightmare offers lessons in the reality of pipelines

13/06/25

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Arno Kopecky

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National Observer

David Huntley on his home patio overlooking Burrard Inlet, where Aframax tankers pass by almost every day to load up on bitumen from the Trans Mountain pipeline's terminus at Westridge Marine Terminal, just out of sight below the treeline. Photo by Arno Kopecky/Canada's National Observer

Jun. 10, 2025

Every morning, David Huntley checks on the oil tanker traffic outside his home. He can see them cruise up Burrard Inlet from his living room window a few hundred metres above Westridge Marine Terminal, where the Trans Mountain pipeline ends. When I popped by for a visit on June 3, an Aframax called the Tyrrhenian Sea had just docked and was partly visible through a thicket of trees. Last time Huntley saw it here was April 20; since then, it has been to China and back.

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Prime Minister Carney Must Take Decisive Action to End Genocide in Gaza

13/06/25

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Socialist Project

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The Bullet

June 13, 2025

We write as a concerned group of 412 Canadians, including academics, lawyers, former and retired ambassadors (including to the United Nations), ministers and public servants, UN human rights experts, and civil society, labour and faith leaders, all deeply concerned with the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month.

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AI Demands to Be Fed. We’re All Servers Now

10/06/25

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Andrew Nikiforuk

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The Tyee

The server mills that run AI need vast amounts of energy and water. You can expect higher monthly utility bills. Photo via Shutterstock.

Jun. 10, 2025

The energy appetite of data centres is boundless and ruinous. But Alberta and BC are eager to cater.

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Decarbonized doublespeak

08/06/25

Author:

Chris Hatch

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National Observer

This photo provided by the Manitoba government shows wildfires in Sherridon, Man., on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Government of Manitoba)

Jun. 8, 2025

It takes a lot to make Simon Donner lose his cool. The co-chair of the feds’ advisory group on climate policy has a daily practice of swimming in the Pacific and braves the frigid water all winter long. But he couldn’t bear the blather about “decarbonized oil” spilling from the first ministers’ meeting this week.

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CO2 levels just broke another record. Here's what that means

08/06/25

Author:

Bridget Stringer-Holden

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CBC News

Geophysicist Ralph Keeling in his lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego, where carbon dioxide levels are tested. ( Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego)

Jun. 7, 2025

The CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii has passed 430 parts per million

When man first walked on the moon, the carbon dioxide concentration in Earth's atmosphere was 325 parts per million (ppm).

By 9/11, it was 369 ppm, and when COVID-19 shut down normal life in 2020, it had shot up to 414 parts ppm.

This week, our planet hit the highest levels ever directly recorded: 430 parts per million.

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Israeli Products Should Have No Place In Canada

03/06/25

Author:

Adam D.K. King

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The Maple

Photo via Labour 4 Palestine on Action Network.

June 2, 2025

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International Mobilization for Peace, Action and Community Transformation

30/05/25

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Impact G7

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The Bullet

May 30, 2025 • Impact G7

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AI Self-Defense Could Include "Extremely Harmful Actions"

29/05/25

Author:

Pocharapon Neammanee

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Huff Post

Jared Kaplan, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Anthropic, said scientists "can't rule" out that the company's latest AI model is "risky." Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

May 24, 2025

Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline

In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed.

The company behind an Amazon-backed AI model revealed a number of concerning findings from its testing process, including that the AI would blackmail engineers who threatened to shut it down.

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The energy appetite of data centres is boundless and ruinous. But Alberta and BC are eager to cater.

The CO2 concentration at the Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii has passed 430 parts per million

Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline

In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed.

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