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Why Amazon Is Terrified of Its U.S. Workers Unionizing

06/12/21
Author: 
Sonali Kolhatkar
Link: 
The Bullet
Amazon workers holding vote yes sign

December 6, 2021

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Capitalism
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Jailed for 51 weeks for protesting? Britain is becoming a police state by stealth

06/12/21
Author: 
George Monbiot
Link: 
The Guardian
‘Among the new amendments are measures that would ban protesters from attaching themselves to another person, to an object, or to land.’ Insulate Britain protesters glued to the road outside parliament. Photograph: Thomas Krych/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

Dec. 1, 2021

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Canada’s big banks pay out $19 billion in record bonuses

05/12/21
Author: 
Dan Darrah
Link: 
The Breach
Illustration: The Breach

Dec. 3, 2021

Big Six raising fees, despite profits hitting all-time high of $57 billion in 2021

Christmas is coming early for Canada’s bankers. 

The six largest banks hit record-breaking profits in 2021 and will pay out massive bonuses at year’s end, newly released fourth quarter earnings reports show.

On the strength of a combined $57.4 billion in profits, the Big Six are paying out $18.8 billion in bonuses before the holidays.

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How Canada became a vaccine villain

05/12/21
Author: 
Nikolas Barry-Shaw
Link: 
The Breach
image of masked people, barbed wire, vaccine vials

Dec. 5, 2021

Pharma lobbying nearly doubled before Liberal government moved to block TRIPS waiver

Until recently, nobody could accuse Justin Trudeau of being Big Pharma’s BFF. 

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Scotland is on the global frontlines of The Great Net-Zero Land Grab

05/12/21
Author: 
Laurie Macfarlane
Link: 
Open Democracy
The rural land market in Scotland is booming and analysts expect demand to continue rising | Loop Images Ltd / Alamy Stock Photo

Nov. 26, 2021

As investors look to profit from the carbon-offset gold rush, demand for land is soaring. But letting Big Finance restore nature may come at a cost

How will COP26 be remembered by future historians? Whether it is regarded as a global triumph or a disastrous failure, one thing is clear: the conference will go down in history as the moment the global economy officially entered the Age of Net Zero.

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Canada’s Supreme Court recognizes Wet’suwet’en law. So how is Coastal GasLink moving ahead?

03/12/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Wet'suwet'en Hereditary Chiefs — from left, Rob Alfred, John Ridsdale and Antoinette Austin — who oppose the Coastal GasLink pipeline take part in a rally in Smithers, B.C., on Jan. 10, 2020. File photo by Jason Franson / The Canadian Press

Dec. 2, 2021

The crisis unfolding on Wet’suwet’en territory went from simmer to boil in recent weeks, and those on the ground say the fight against the Coastal GasLink project is far from over.

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Hundreds of academics condemn RCMP, governments over Coastal GasLink crisis in open letter

03/12/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Link: 
National Observer
Protesters gather in Vancouver on Jan. 8, 2019, to show solidarity with Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs opposing the Coastal GasLink pipeline. File photo by Michael Ruffolo

Dec. 2, 2021

Hundreds of academics have signed an open letter calling for government intervention in the wake of RCMP enforcement of an injunction granted to Coastal GasLink to build a pipeline through unceded Wet’suwet’en territory.

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British Columbia
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The great tree robbery

03/12/21
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
Link: 
Policy Note - CCPA
Thanks to generous BC government subsidies, wood pellet mill yards are overflowing with logs culled from the interior region’s primary or old-growth forests. Photo: Stand.earth.

Dec. 2, 2021

As more old-growth trees topple and forest industry jobs plummet, an obscure government subsidy scheme fuels the collapse

For more than 15 years, the BC government has rewarded logging companies with millions of additional old-growth trees to chop down thanks to an obscure “credit” program that allows companies to log bonus trees that don’t count toward their licensed logging limits.

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British Columbia
Climate Change
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Cuba’s Vaccine Could End up Saving Millions of Lives

30/11/21
Author: 
Branko Marcetic
Link: 
Jacobin
A medical worker displays a dose of Cuba’s Soberana 2 vaccine against COVID-19 at a school in Havana, Cuba. (Joaquin Hernandez / Xinhua via Getty Images)

Nov. 22, 2021

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Time to fight climate change, not each other

30/11/21
Author: 
Yves Engler
Link: 
The Straight
Author Yves Engler argues that the federal government's decision to buy F-35 fighter jets will exacerbate the climate crisis. MASTER SGT. DONALD R. ALLEN/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

Nov. 29, 2021

The Trudeau government’s plan to buy 88 new fighter jets and 15 combat vessels will do little to protect Canadians from this country’s most serious threats. And some people are angry enough to take the streets to send this message to Ottawa. Two dozen rallies were held across the country last week to oppose a fighter jet purchase that will exacerbate an existential menace.

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