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23/12/22
Author: 
Allison Hannaford
A Canada Post letter carrier crosses a snow and ice covered road while delivering mail in Burnaby, B.C., on Wednesday, December 21, 2022. Photo by: The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Dec. 22, 2022

Like many Canadians, Colin McCarter is awaiting his father’s arrival to celebrate the holidays with him and his family in North Bay, Ont. However, he warned his dad about the impending storm and the challenges he may face on his nearly 400-kilometre drive north from the Greater Toronto Area.

McCarter, the Canada Research Chair in Climate and Environmental Change at Nipissing University in North Bay, thinks about extreme weather a lot. His studies revolve around how disturbances like climate change impact our landscape.

21/12/22
Author: 
The New Climate Report
The New Climate Report

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvRtNGW9Ajk

283,080 views Aug 26, 2022

It's never good to hear the words "total societal collapse" from a scholarly paper, but that's exactly the phrasing used in the new UN climate report. We all know it's bad, but what's really standing in the way of us ensuring a livable future?

Check out my podcast, The Deprogram!

21/12/22
Author: 
Martin Empson
degrowth venn diagram

Dec. 17, 2022

Book review: A powerful polemic against capitalism’s planetary destruction, and an engaging look at the degrowth movement

Matthias Schmelzer, Andrea Vetter and Aaron Vansintjan
THE FUTURE IS DEGROWTH
A Guide to a World Beyond Capitalism

Verso, 2022

reviewed by Martin Empson

20/12/22
Author: 
Gerard Dalbon
DSA and the War in Ukraine: Toward a Mass Socialist Anti-War Movement

Dec. 9. 2022

A DSA International Committee organizer talks about DSA’s response to the war in Ukraine, the need for socialist anti-war organizing, and his perspective on the conflict as an Eastern European.

Watch here:

 https://www.dsausa.org/democratic-left/dsa-and-the-war-in-ukraine-toward-a-mass-socialist-anti-war-movement/

20/12/22
Author: 
H.G. Watson
Stop criminalizing poverty

Website editor: This article makes some very good points about 'free transit' campaigns and more.

Dec. 19, 2022

Ottawa’s light-rail transit system has made headlines in the last years – but not for any good reasons. Trains don’t work in the cold. Technical problems cause frequent delays, and a derailment once led to all the trains being taken out of service for weeks. On top of this, Ottawa’s city council voted to increase fares.

19/12/22
Author: 
What On Earth - CBC
The Petroleum Papers is a nonfiction book by Geoff Dembicki. (Greystone Books, Submitted by the Writers' Trust of Canada)
In his book The Petroleum Papers, journalist Geoff Dembicki traces the money behind climate disinformation back to Canada. 
Aired: Dec. 18, 2022
 
clip is from the beginning to 23:17 point.
 
16/12/22
Author: 
Don Pittis
An electric Canoo LV (Lifestyle Vehicle) at a factory in Livonia, Mich., last month. Quirky new designs can make EVs attractive items of conspicuous consumption for those who can afford them. (Rebecca Cook/Reuters)

Dec. 12, 2022

With their futuristic designs and new technology, electric vehicles are the seductive consumer-friendly face of the energy transition.

As first incarnated by Tesla, the EV is increasingly seen as sleeker, slicker, faster and more stylish than traditional internal combustion engine cars and trucks that burn those dirty fossil fuels blamed for disrupting weather patterns and killing off species. 

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