Feb. 15, 2023

There’s more money on the table—but without adequate strings attached, the provinces could end up spending it on tax cuts instead of fixing health care.

Feb. 16, 2023

COVID-is-a-hoax crowd caused thousands more deaths, hundreds of millions in hospital costs: report

We’ve seen a lot of disinformation over the last three years shared by anti-science bad actors, usually with an agenda to disrupt and confuse.

Then there is misinformation, much more common and differing from disinformation with regard to intent.

 Feb 20, 2023 

First in a 3-part series

David Spratt is research director for the Melbourne-based Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration and coauthor of the book Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action (Scribe, 2008). He published “What Lies Beneath: The Underestimation of Existential Climate Risk” with Ian Dunlop in 2018.

Feb. 18, 2023

Melting ice and cold hard cash

Feb. 15, 2023

"Our government is working tirelessly to pad the multibillion-dollar profits of domestic agribusiness corporations by pushing GE corn," said one U.S. environmental group.

Environmental groups on Tuesday accused the Biden administration of putting the profits of big agribusiness over public health and critical pollinators by attempting to obstruct the Mexican government's ongoing push to ban genetically engineered corn.

Feb. 16, 2023

Katzie claim work at two sites, one in Maple Ridge, being done without proper consultation

Katzie First Nation has ordered the Trans Mountain Corporation to immediately stop all work on its territory.

The First Nation claims the oil pipeline corporation is undertaking work in two of Katzie’s unceded village sites, – one in Langley and one in Maple Ridge – “without adequate notice, consultation, or opportunity to monitor works in accordance with project conditions.”

Feb. 16, 2023

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A giant truck with no driver in the cab recently drove itself 80 miles from Tucson to Phoenix, Arizona.

TuSimple Holdings, a public corporation headquartered in San Diego, has announced it conducted an 80-mile driverless truck run along highways and streets, including Interstate 10, from Tucson to a location in the Phoenix area. The unusual thing about the drive was that no one was in the driver’s seat of the truck.

Website editor:  And do we want to expand international shipping in the time of climate crisis?!

Feb. 16, 2023

As a federal decision on a massive container-port expansion looms, opposition mounts.

Feb. 17, 2023

Advocates applaud a key legislative change, but call for faster action to protect biodiversity.