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20/02/25
Author: 
Paul Krugman
Exploding SpaceX

Feb. 17, 2025

Musk is moving fast and breaking important thing

Last month SpaceX carried out a test launch of its in-development Starship rocket. Liftoff was achieved, but as the company later announced, “Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly during its ascent burn.” In other words, it exploded.

20/02/25
Author: 
Primary Author: Gaye Taylor
Pixabay

Feb. 20, 2025

Fossil fuel companies are influencing what Canadian students learn about climate change, funding and supplying educational materials that frame the issue to serve their interests, health and climate advocates warn in a new report.

20/02/25
Author: 
Christopher Bonasia
SalFalko/flickr

Feb. 20, 2025

Canada’s pension funds are moving to address climate risk, but rising political uncertainty “raises stakes” for those falling behind, concludes an evaluation of the country’s largest pension managers.

19/02/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
Photo by: Sergey Pesterev / Unsplash

Feb. 18, 2025

Should we even bother talking about climate change?

It’s a question you hear muttered more and more in environmental circles and even more brashly from those focused on clean energy: given the shift in public priorities and the state of politics, should climate advocates just stop talking about climate change?

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: 
John Woodside
Photo via Trans Mountain / Facebook

Opposition parties are calling for “full transparency” from the federal government about its financial commitments to the Trans Mountain expansion project, following revelations of a $20-billion refinancing loan offered to the beleaguered company.

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