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05/08/21
Author: 
Claire Asher
Banner image: A shepherd with grazing sheep. Image via Pixabay (Public domain).
 30 July 2021
  • Agriculture and food account for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions, making these sectors critical in efforts to address our current overshoot of the climate planetary boundary. They are also having profound impacts on freshwater, biodiversity and biogeochemical cycles.
05/08/21
Author: 
Jason Plautz Contributor
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Dive Brief:

  • Pittsburgh is seeking to make universal basic mobility accessible to low-income residents through a new mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) platform that offers access to public transit and shared mobility services. 
05/08/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Despite committing to net-zero by 2050 earlier this year, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is upping its stake in the United Kingdom’s second-largest gas network. Photo via BigStock

Aug. 5, 2021

Despite committing to net-zero by 2050 earlier this year, the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan (OTPP) is upping its stake in the United Kingdom’s second-largest gas network.

05/08/21
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Nearly 90 per cent of Canadians want to see a wealth tax of one per cent paid by the wealthiest Canadians, according to new poll data. Photo By KMR Photography / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

August 5th 2021

A majority of Canadians believe wealth inequality should be tackled by increasing taxes on the wealthy and large corporations and even said it could influence their vote, according to a new poll.

04/08/21
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UNITE HERE Local 40
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Vancouver, BC – Today, in a multi-city action, locked out Hilton Metrotown workers and their supporters across the country urged South Korea’s Ambassador to Canada to intervene in the growing dispute with a Seoul-based hotel owner.  The workers, who have been locked out for over 100 days, called on South Korea’s Ambassador, Keung Ryong Chang, to engage members of the prominent and politically connected family that owns DSDL Co., the owner of Hilton Metrotown.  

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