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16/03/25
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Primary Author: Gaye Taylor
gas burner

Mar. 13, 2025

As gas prices rise again in Ontario and British Columbia, leaving millions of Canadians at the mercy of volatile markets—and Wall Street—health and climate experts say it’s time for policymakers to break free from fossil fuels.

16/03/25
Author: 
Werner Antweiler, Simon Donner, Kathryn Harrison
Cooling towers used to dissipate heat generated when natural gas is converted into liquefied natural gas are seen under construction at the LNG Canada export terminal in Kitimat. Photo by DARRYL DYCK /THE CANADIAN PRESS

Mar. 13, 2025

The looming threat of a trade war with the U.S. has focused attention on lessening Canada’s historic dependence on trade with the our neighbours to the south.

14/03/25
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Earth - black marble

Mar. 14, 2025

“The accumulation of CO2 in the atmosphere is irreversible on human timescales and will affect climate for millennia” -- World Meteorological Organization (WMO) 

11/03/25
Author: 
Seth Klein
Mark Carney at an informal campaign stop on Feb. 16, 2025. Photo from Facebook/Mark Carney

In the space of a mere few weeks, the Canadian political terrain has shifted dramatically. Between Prime Minister Trudeau’s imminent departure and Trump’s attacks on Canada’s economy and sovereignty, a Conservative majority led by Pierre Poilievre in the coming months no longer seems like a foregone conclusion. In an otherwise bleak global landscape, many in Canada are breathing a sigh of relief that polls are showing a stunning collapse in the Conservatives’ lead, especially when poll respondents are asked to consider a Mark Carney-led Liberal Party.

11/03/25
Author: 
Sam Gindin
Shipping containers

March 11, 2025

The danger confronting Canadians is not President Trump’s on-and-off tariff toggle. That’s only a symptom. The more significant threat is our deep integration with, and hence dependence on, the US. This has compromised our formal sovereignty and will continue to block our substantive sovereignty – the democratic capacity to choose our own directions without external (i.e., US) pressures.

11/03/25
Author: 
Steve Peoples
Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,right, speaks to an overflow crowd outside Lincoln Highschool as he talks about "Fighting Oligarchy: Where Do We Go From Here"   Saturday March 8, 2025 in Warren, Mich. (AP Photo/Jose Juarez)

Mar. 9, 2025

WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Bernie Sanders is standing alone on the back of a pickup truck shouting into a bullhorn.

He’s facing several hundred ecstatic voters huddled outside a suburban Detroit high school — the group that did not fit inside the high school’s gym or two overflow rooms. The crowd screams in delight when he tells them that a combined total of 9,000 people had shown up for the rally.

10/03/25
Author: 
Damian Carrington
If Saudi Aramco was a country, it would be the fourth biggest polluter in the world after China, the US and India. Photograph: Alamy

Mar. 5, 2025

Researchers say data strengthens case for holding firms to account for their contribution to climate crisis

Half of the world’s climate-heating carbon emissions come from the fossil fuels produced by just 36 companies, analysis has revealed.

The researchers said the 2023 data strengthened the case for holding fossil fuel companies to account for their contribution to global heating. Previous versions of the annual report have been used in legal cases against companies and investors.

08/03/25
Author: 
Unifor
Protect Canadian Jobs - Unifor

Mar. 4, 2025

TORONTO—The unjust imposition of tariffs on Canadian goods by U.S. President Donald Trump is an economic call-to-arms for Canada says Unifor.

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