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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. 

18/11/24
Author: 
The Breach
Screenshot:  UN expert slams Canada’s complicity in Gaza assault

Nov 13, 2024 

UN expert slams Canada’s complicity in Gaza assault

Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, sits down with Desmond Cole to discuss Canada’s ‘crystal clear’ complicity in the Israeli destruction of Gaza and the ‘hope that remains in this darkness.’

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR9_cWkt-HA

14/11/24
Author: 
John Woodside
Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Nov. 13, 2024

Greenhouse gas emissions from the coal, oil and gas that Canada exports to other countries surpassed a billion tonnes last year — more than double the country’s total emissions, according to newly uncovered federal data. 

14/11/24
Author: 
Deep Jigneshkumar Parekh
The Chemetall Foote Lithium Operation in Clayton Valley, a dry lake bed in Esmeralda County, Nevada, just east of Silver Peak, a tiny town that has been host to various kinds of mining for about 150 years. Photo by: Doc Searls / Flickr CC

Nov. 14, 2024

Where once we dug deep for fossil fuels, today, we dig even deeper for critical minerals. They may be different resources, but their extraction will leave a similar scar on the land, particularly for Indigenous communities who are once again at the forefront of resource extraction’s environmental and cultural toll.

Recent news highlights growing resistance from Indigenous communities worldwide as the global push for energy transition minerals clashes with local rights and ecosystems.

14/11/24
Author: 
Sandra Laville
 View of a beach covered by plastic garbage on the island of Santa Luzia, Cape Verde. Photo by CaptainDarwin/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Nov. 14, 2024

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

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