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29/11/24
Author: 
Allison Morrill Chatrchyan
UN Environment Programme Executive Director Inger Andersen and the COP29 President-Designate, H.E. Mukhtar Babayev the COP29 President-Designate address the press. (Photo: UNEP/Ahmed Nayim Yussuf)

Nov. 19, 2024

[Original Title: Why I’m not in Baku—and how to prevent further co-optation of UN climate summits]

29/11/24
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
The Elkview coal mine across the border in BC could be a preview of the future for Grassy Mountain. Photo via Teck Resources.

Nov. 27, 2024

A bogus referendum this week could bring a risky coal mine to the Rockies.

The outsized influence of billionaires in the workings of ailing democracies has struck again.

27/11/24
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs met on Nov. 25 to recognize the expiration of PRGT's environmental assessment permit with a ceremony. Photo from Gitanyow Hereditary Chiefs Office

Nov. 27, 2024

The fate of a 900-kilometre natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia is in limbo after its environmental assessment certificate expired on Nov. 25.

The province must decide whether to greenlight the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline by either making its decade-old certificate permanent or sending the entire project back to the drawing board for a new environmental assessment.

27/11/24
Author: 
Angela Amato
An oil refinery near Fort McMurray. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board owns 90 per cent of a Calgary-based oil and gas company that signed an open letter calling for withdrawal of the federal oil and gas emissions cap. Photo via Shutterstock.

Nov. 21, 2024

A senior pension fund executive sits on the board of an energy company opposed to emissions caps.

In the world of energy, Dave Chambers of Toronto wears multiple hats.

27/11/24
Author: 
Alvin Finkel
A detail from a painting by Jean Froissart of Richard II meeting with the rebels of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Image via Wikimedia.

Nov. 21, 2024

A quick history of common people rising up to make gains for justice and equality.

24/11/24
Author: 
The Breach
6 ways Justin Trudeau is misleading Canadians about immigration - Fact checking

Nov. 20, 2024

6 ways Justin Trudeau is misleading Canadians about immigration

Justin Trudeau’s new immigration plan is a capitulation to Conservatives. Syed Hussan, executive director of the Migrants Workers Alliance for Change, breaks down every way Trudeau is misleading Canadians about immigration.

Watch video here.


Anchor 1: This is a big change.

24/11/24
Author: 
Jason Wilson
Pete Hegseth speaks to the media at the capitol in Washington DC on 21 November 2024. Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/EPA

Nov. 22, 2024

Defense secretary pick said in 2020 that should Democrats win election the military ‘will be forced to make a choice’

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, has written in a book that he could imagine a scenario in which the US armed forces would be used violently in American domestic politics.

Hegseth, a former elite soldier turned rightwing Fox television personality, is Trump’s choice to lead the Pentagon which controls the gigantic American military – by far the largest armed force in the world.

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