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29/07/24
Author: 
Edward Carver
Climate activists prepare for a march to the home of Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser in New York City on July 27, 2024. (Photo: New York Communities for Change)

July 27, 2024

Dozens of climate campaigners were arrested for protesting the multinational bank's financing of new fossil fuel development.

Hundreds of activists, largely mothers and their kids, protested outside Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser's luxury apartment building in New York City on Saturday, calling for the multinational bank she leads to stop funding fossil fuel expansion.

28/07/24
Author: 
Marianne Lavelle
John Bozzella, president and CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, speaks at the roll-out of the Biden administration's vehicle pollution standards in March in Washington, D.C. Credit: EPA

July 21, 2024

Electric Vehicles Strain the Automaker-Big Oil Alliance

In the clean car battle, the oil industry leans on friends—including Donald Trump—to keep gasoline transport alive, while carmakers steer toward an EV future.

Politically Charged: Fourth is a series about how political polarization threatens the EV future. 

28/07/24
Author: 
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Vancouver mayor Ken Sim and his ABC party have reversed Vancouver's much-lauded plan to phase out natural gas in new buildings. Photo by Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press

July 25, 2024

A group of conservative Vancouver city councillors have reversed the city's pioneering pro-climate measures restricting the use of natural gas in new buildings. Implemented in 2020, the rules made Vancouver the first Canadian municipality to restrict gas for climate reasons and inspired dozens of other local governments to do the same.

28/07/24
Author: 
Theresa McManus
Officials from the City of New Westminster and Fraser Health do a dry run of the emergency monitoring centre each year. From left: Ryan Weber (parks); Cory Hansen (New West Emergency Management Office); Brad Davie (fire); Tracey Demibras (Fraser Health Home Health); Nikki Paash (Fraser Health Authority); Stephen Minoza (FHA); Nana Anoh (FHA).

July 17, 2024

The 2021 heat dome inspired New Westminster to consider a new way of responding to extreme heat events.

New Westminster is pioneering a new way to respond to extreme heat events that overwhelm the resources of local first responders.

25/07/24
Author: 
Access for Everyone
Access for Everyone

July 25, 2024

As TransLink and the Mayors’ Council continue to navigate the ongoing financial challenges facing Metro Vancouver’s transit system, a new report sheds light on the catastrophic cuts to transit service that could come as soon as 2025 unless the B.C. Government works with TransLink to fix its broken funding model.

23/07/24
Author: 
George Monbiot
 Illustration: Kingsley Nebechi/The Guardian

July 14, 2024

The focus on growth to ease the UK’s economic ills will not be nearly enough, but there is a way to raise the sums needed

Website editor: What is true in the UK is also relevant to Canada and elsewhere.

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