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25/03/21
Author: 
Carl Meyer
File photo of air pollution in Toronto at a manufacturing complex. United Nations Photo / Kibae Park

March 25th 2021

Air pollutants have cost Canada $120 billion per year, according to recently released figures from Health Canada, a toll that roughly equals the value of all oil and gas exports.

The health burden from pollutants in the air that come from industrial activities like oil and gas extraction, mining, manufacturing, construction, and transportation — as well as natural events like forest fires — contributed to 15,300 premature Canadian deaths in 2016, the most recent year figures are available.

24/03/21
Author: 
Vicki Robin, Kim Stanley Robinson

I highly recommend this interview with Kim Stanley Robinson about his most recent novel, The Ministry for the Future, which charts an imaginary path through our realistically projected future of ecocatastrophe. It's simultaneously brutal and optimistic. The interview delves into some of the book's main themes.

22/03/21
Author: 
Christopher Rowland, Emily Rauhala and Miriam Berger
21 March 21
 

As immunization gap widens between rich and poor countries, the industry faces a battle over patents and know-how

21/03/21
Author: 
John Clarke
If we are to develop a clear and consistent form of international solidarity, we must be ready to face the contradictions and complications of the global context in which working class struggles take place. Image by Canadian Dimension.

As socialists, our solidarity should be with the international working class, not with governments or states

March 19, 2021

20/03/21
Author: 
Jack Delaney
Magnus Panvidya, a member of the Boogaloo Boys, on The Jimmy Dore Show.

MARCH 7, 2021

On May 29, 2020, in the wake of the police murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, a Black Lives Matter (BLM) demonstration marched about a half-mile from Oakland’s Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building. Around ten o’clock at night outside the federal building, as the protest continued close by, bullets spewed from a moving vehicle striking security personnel and killing one.

20/03/21
Author: 
Staff Reporter
Construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion continues. (via Trans Mountain)

Mar. 19, 2021

B.C. unveiled more vaccination details on Thursday

Workers at the Trans Mountain site near North Road in Burnaby with masks pulled down around their chins.

17/03/21
Author: 
Derrick O'Keefe
Jim Pattison's Nova Spirit yacht docked in Vancouver's Coal Harbour (Ross/Flickr)

Mar. 11, 2021

New calculations show a moderately ambitious tax on the ultra-rich would generate $19.4 billion for public coffers in first year

What if there was one simple policy that could raise the federal government an extra $19 billion or so to pay for a just recovery from the pandemic, with the side benefit of ever so slightly decreasing the chasm of inequality between the ultra-rich and most people in Canada?

New research from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives shows that even a moderately ambitious wealth tax could do just that.

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