Protest - Revolt

30/11/24
Author: 
Seth Klein
CNO columnist Seth Klein dumped gas heating years ago and has never looked back. Photo by: Adrienne Tanner for Canada's National Observer

Nov. 29, 2024

It wasn’t easy, and it was uncomfortably close. But late Wednesday evening, the gas industry’s effort to re-introduce fossil fuel heating in new homes and buildings in Vancouver was mercifully defeated.

Mobilizing to confront the climate emergency desperately requires forward momentum. Instead, thanks to the unrelenting persistence of the fossil gas industry, countless Vancouver-area climate activists and organizations just spent untold hours over the last four months re-prosecuting a fight they had already won.

27/11/24
Author: 
Alvin Finkel
A detail from a painting by Jean Froissart of Richard II meeting with the rebels of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Image via Wikimedia.

Nov. 21, 2024

A quick history of common people rising up to make gains for justice and equality.

23/11/24
Author: 
Leadnow

Nov. 23, 2024

18/11/24
Author: 
The Breach
Screenshot:  UN expert slams Canada’s complicity in Gaza assault

Nov 13, 2024 

UN expert slams Canada’s complicity in Gaza assault

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss Canada’s ‘crystal clear’ complicity in the Israeli destruction of Gaza and the ‘hope that remains in this darkness.’

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR9_cWkt-HA

28/10/24
Author: 
Norman Solomon
Image Credit: Gallup

Oct. 25, 2024

While we don't know who the next president will be, some outcomes of the election can be foreseen.

While the name of the next president is unknown, some outcomes of the election can be foreseen. For instance:

24/10/24
Author: 
Elena Stein. Originally published in The Guardian.
Jews Shut Down The New York Stock Exchange Protesting Israeli Genocide

Oct. 18, 2024

Time after time, Sha’ban al-Dalou, a 19-year-old software engineering student living in Gaza, nearly escaped death. He began studying at Gaza’s al-Azhar University two months before it was destroyed in November by a US-made bomb dropped by Israeli forces.

18/10/24
Author: 
Jordan Olmstead · The Canadian Press
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled unanimously Thursday that the seven young people who launched a constitutional challenge against the provincial government's emissions targets will get a new hearing. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

Oct. 17, 2024

Young people arguing Ontario's weakened emissions target violates their Charter rights

Ontario's top court has ordered a new hearing for a youth-led constitutional challenge of the provincial government's emissions target.

The Ontario Court of Appeal's ruling sends the case back to the lower court for a new hearing. It found the lower court judge's analysis was flawed on some key points and the case raised important issues that should be considered afresh.

13/10/24
Author: 
Grist
Stylized version of The Thinker

Oct. 9, 2024

The vision

“Our planet is transforming in a way that will make life much harder for most people. It already has brought suffering to millions and millions of people. And in the United States, most of us are learning about the scale and significance of this crisis at a point when there is not a whole lot of time to shift course. That realization carries both a mental toll and an emotional reckoning.”

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