“The choices we make in the coming years will determine whether the global economy continues down a path of extreme concentration or moves toward shared prosperity.”
A landmark report on global inequality published Wednesday shows that the chasm between the richest slice of humanity and everyone else continued to expand this year, leaving the top 0.001%—fewer than 60,000 multimillionaires—with three times more wealth than the poorest half of the world’s population combined.
It marks one of the largest public mobilizations against the CAQ government since the premier took office in 2018.
Major arteries of downtown Montreal on Saturday afternoon were shut down as tens of thousands of people, part of a broad coalition of Quebec labour groups and community organizations, marched against what they called Premier François Legault’s accelerating turn to the political right.
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A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge
The ultra-sophisticated port north of Lima will revolutionize global trade, but it’s already sparking destructive new routes through the world’s most climate-critical ecosystem.
Eleventh in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world.
CHANCAY, Peru—The elevator doors leading to the fifth-floor control center open like stage curtains onto a theater-sized screen.
Raw log exports, capital flight and shuttered mills signal the fall of BC’s forestry sector.
The provincial Conservatives wasted no time calling for Forests Minister Ravi Parmar’s head this week after Domtar announced it would soon shutter its Crofton pulp mill.
Canadian lentils are exposing simmering tensions between Carney's European trade ambitions and his government's proposal to eliminate a key part of Canada's pesticide risk assessment, observers say.
The federal government’s expert body mandated to provide it with independent advice to reach net-zero emissions is collapsing following Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pipeline agreement with Alberta. Two prominent members of the body, including its chair, have resigned this week, citing a lack of influence over a government that’s increasingly pulling back on climate action.
