The climate disruption impacts he outlines are scary enough. But in discussing the need for systemic solutions, he doesn’t even mention the dominant global economic system that is hastening the cataclysms he predicts. Gene McGuckin
Here's a little tourist propaganda from the British Columbia Ministry of Greenwash. It celebrates the local results of increasing federal and provincial support for the fossil fuel industry.
Nearly a year after the oil and gas industry squared off with Regina’s city council over a proposed amendment to ban fossil fuel companies from sponsoring city buildings or events, a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives uncovers the playbook used to kill the motion.
Crypto is a new financial technology. It’s phenomenally hard to understand, but it’s still catching on faster than people can catch up to what it is, let along what it’s morphing into.
The ice shelf was cracking up. Surveys showed warm ocean water eroding its underbelly. Satellite imagery revealed long, parallel fissures in the frozen expanse, like scratches from some clawed monster. One fracture grew so big, so fast, scientists took to calling it “the dagger.”
Party brass have worked behind the scenes to tamp down dissent, but some bubbled over in weekend convention
VICTORIA — The B.C. NDP convention on Sunday called for an independent investigation into allegations the RCMP used excessive force against protesters at the standoff over the Coastal GasLink pipeline.
The party accused the RCMP of setting back reconciliation with the Wet’suwet’en Indigenous people, whose hereditary leaders oppose construction of the natural gas pipeline through their traditional territory.
Once dismissed as radical, idea of fare-free public transit gaining traction
A passenger boards an OC Transpo bus in early 2021. Advocates are calling for fare-free public transit in the city as a way of boosting ridership, cutting carbon emissions and making life more affordable for low-income residents. (Andrew Lee/CBC)
