Travis Olson, a 22-year-old from Camrose, Alta., is worried that his pension is at risk from climate breakdown and has joined three other young people and two law firms to hold the Canada Pension Plan accountable.
Despite the announcement of a deal between the Palestinian resistance movement and the Israeli regime, the latter continues to violate the ceasefire provisions. The world treats the ceasefire as if the genocide has ended, but the reality on the ground tells a different story: Gaza is in ruins; and starvation, displacement, and death continue as deliberate tools of genocide. This so-called ceasefire exists only in rhetoric; genocide continues while diplomatic actors debate who allegedly broke the deal.
Growing economies, growing industry, growing cities, growing population, growing pollution… When does it stop?
Our current economic system is obsessed with constant growth; everything must keep expanding — except for the natural systems on which our health and survival depend. Those are shrinking, destroyed by our obsession with growth.
Canada’s long codependent economic relationship with the United States has abruptly and involuntarily ended. The election of a tariff-obsessed, unpredictable, incompetent, crony capitalist autocratic Donald Trump administration requires Canada to rethink its economic future.
Some questions Prime Minister Mark Carney should ask before pushing ahead with natural gas projects.
Prime Minister Mark Carney recently announced five proposals he intends to fast track to defend our economy from the hostile Trump administration, live up to Canada’s climate commitments, and demonstrate respect for Indigenous rights.
Do the projects live up to these aspirational values? Let’s take a closer look.
A Canadian oil and gas firm successfully pressed Canada’s spy agency to start sharing government intelligence with the country’s wealthiest companies, something advocates say will protect critical infrastructure but that critics worry could infringe on civil rights.
