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20/03/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Vancouverites protesting in 2018 after Trudeau pledged $4.5 billion to buy Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. The public cost has leapt to $30.9 billion. Photo by Darryl Dyck via The Canadian Press.

Mar. 20, 2023

Shameless spin can’t excuse the burgeoning boondoggle and ‘global warming machine’ called TMX.

20/03/23
Author: 
Paul Street
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Mar. 17, 2023

Sometimes it is hard to know who is worse: the Christian white nationalist neofascists who keep pushing the nation further right or the hollow and passive resistance of the fake-opposition Weimar Democrats who keep accommodating the ever more mainstreamed far right.

But we don’t have to choose.  The fascisation of US politics and policy reflects, among other things, a symbiotic, even “co-dependent” dance between the Republikaner right and those aligned with the not-so leftmost of the two dominant capitalist parties – the dismal Dems.

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20/03/23
Author: 
Yanis Varoufakis
A lock is seen on a gate on the exterior of the U.S. Department of Treasury building as they joined other government financial institutions to bail out Silicon Valley Bank's account holders after it collapsed on March 13, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Mar. 17, 2023

This Is Not a Repeat of the 2008 Financial Crisis, But It Is the Same Capitalist Rot

Since 2008, governments and central banks have been trying to prop up the banks through a combination of socialism for the banks, and austerity for everyone else. The result is what we see today.

Every systemic banking crisis has a trigger that sets it off. In the case of SVB, the reason for its bankruptcy is twofold.

20/03/23
Author: 
Al Shaw, Irena Hwang and Caroline Chen
The next pandemic could emerge from the edges around these patches, where wildlife and humans mix.

Mar. 16, 2023

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19/03/23
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The Energy Mix
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Mar. 14, 2023

A Honolulu company is helping low-income families in Hawaii reduce energy costs while contributing to a more sustainable grid—by linking household water heaters to create a virtual power plant, effectively repurposing the ubiquitous appliances into grid batteries.

19/03/23
Author: 
Robin McKie
A savanna elephant in Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa. The total biomass of savanna elephants was estimated in the study to be half that of the 2m tonnes cats collectively weigh. Photograph: Arterra Picture Library/Alamy

Mar. 18, 2023

The total weight of Earth’s wild land mammals – from elephants to bisons and from deer to tigers – is now less than 10% of the combined tonnage of men, women and children living on the planet.

A study by scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science, published this month, concludes that wild land mammals alive today have a total mass of 22m tonnes. By comparison, humanity now weighs in at a total of around 390m tonnes.

19/03/23
Author: 
The Editorial Board
Burnaby Now: Construction on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.Trans Mountain

Canada's big-business newspaper considers squandering $31 billion (which doesn't include lots of large related expenses like policing services) as necessary, "given Canadian political realities." The big-talk-no-action BC NDP could have changed those realities.      - Gene McGuckin

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