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24/11/24
Author: 
Alexandria Shaner
The Green New Deal From Below - book cover

Nov. 24, 2024

Less than one week after a self-proclaimed dictator, climate change denier, and big oil-funded billionaire (among other equally impressive accolades) took the single most powerful political office in the world, it seems like a horrible time to release a book about the Green New Deal (GND).

23/11/24
Author: 
Leadnow

Nov. 23, 2024

19/11/24
Author: 
Mitch Anderson
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault announced a $2 billion climate financing platform at COP29. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Nov. 15, 2024

Canada Promises Climate Reparations at COP29 While Courting Big Oil at Home

With spotlight on politicians and their pledges in Baku, fossil fuel lobbyists are racking up private meetings with Trudeau’s government.

Steven Guilbeault came to the COP29 climate change negotiations in Azerbaijan ready to make what the federal Liberal government deemed a “major” announcement. 

19/11/24
Author: 
Michelle Gamage
After Dr. Ryan Herriot, in the white coat, opened a pop-up overdose prevention site on Royal Jubilee Hospital grounds today, the site was moved off hospital grounds by hospital security teams to city property. Photo by Brishti Basu.

Nov. 18, 2024

The solution to patients using illicit drugs in unsafe ways is to offer safer alternatives, advocates say.

19/11/24
Author: 
Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana and Samuel Tanner
The COVID-19 pandemic further served as a platform to peddle globalist conspiracy theories and cultivate contempt for governments, news media, science, racialized people and any form of speech that might contradict the white supremacist discourse of the far right. Photo by Stepan_ via Wikipedia, Creative Commons licensed.

Nov. 19, 2024

Our new book, ‘The Great Right North,’ takes a close look at how extremism is progressing in our national discourse.

In early 2022, thousands of Canadians descended on Ottawa as part of the so-called “Freedom Convoy” in protest of the government’s pandemic-related restrictions. Many were opposed to the government’s power to impose lockdowns, masking and vaccine mandates.

Wittingly or not, they were also taking part in a vast communications effort from various groups and individuals on the far right.

18/11/24
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Canada is out of excuses. Europe slashes climate pollution while we flounder

Nov. 18, 2024

Canada is out of excuses. Europe slashes climate pollution while we flounder

To avoid a dystopian future for our climate, the world’s most advanced economies must lead the way. These are the nations with the necessary money, talent and capacity to transition to safer energy sources first. And their high per-capita emissions mean these nations are disproportionally responsible for creating the crisis. 

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