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23/01/24
Author: 
Tyne Logan
The Statue of Liberty was covered in haze and smoke caused by wildfires in Canada.(REUTERS: Amr Alfiky)

"When it comes to the impact on the climate, Dr Canadell says these fire emissions — though significant — are barely a blip on the radar compared with the decades of accumulated emissions caused by the fossil fuel industry."

Jan. 21, 2024

Just six days in to the northern hemisphere summer of 2023, the skyline in New York City was stained in a sepia smoke haze.

It was streaming from across the border, where, what became Canada's most widespread fires in history, were raging.

And the fires did not let up for months.

23/01/24
Author: 
Conor Smyth, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
fast food workers

Jan. 21, 2024

Reporting on California's Fast-food minimum wage raise comes with fear.

What’s scarier than a shark attack? An increase in the minimum wage.

At least that’s what many corporate media outlets seem to want you to believe, given the apocalyptic tone of much of the coverage of California’s recent decision to raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 an hour, starting this April, a bump from the current level of $16.

23/01/24
Author: 
Andy Takagi
In the third quarter of 2023, the wealthiest 20 per cent of Canadians accounted for the vast majority of total wealth across the country.   Steve Russell

Jan. 22, 2024

The wealthiest 20 per cent of Canadians recently accounted for more than two-thirds of total net wealth in Canada.

Canada’s income inequality continues to widen, highlighting the struggle of the lowest income Canadians to make ends meet amidst a prolonged cost-of-living crisis.

21/01/24
Author: 
Brandi Morin
 Residents of an Indigenous homeless encampment in Edmonton being evicted by police | Photo by Brandi Morin

Jan. 18, 2024

21/01/24
Author: 
Sandra Smiley, Preet Gandhi and Kathryn Haegedorn
Oppenheimer Park in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside on the morning of Jan. 17, after city bylaw enforcement and police officers decamped people from the park last week. Photo via Amanda Burrows on X.

Jan. 19, 2024

20/01/24
Author: 
The Progressive International Secretariat
The Aegean blue grave

Jan. 19, 2024

For more than a decade, migrants and refugees making the sea crossing from Turkey to Greece have suffered egregious and well-documented violence, including forced detention, arbitrary arrest and beatings.

 

20/01/24
Author: 
Linda McQuaig
Carbon Engineering's plant in Squamish, B.C. is part of growing carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS) industry.  Hannah.Griffin

Jan. 11, 2024

Seeing carbon capture and storage as “a way to compensate for ongoing fossil fuel burning is economically illiterate,” concludes an Oxford University study.

One can only imagine the positive buzz these days inside the boardrooms of Canada’s oil companies, as they rake in record profits and plan major expansions of their oil production.

20/01/24
Author: 
Adam Morton & Graham Readfearn
This complex mixture of different types of Antarctic sea ice was photographed on Oct. 13, 2012, in the Bellingshausen Sea with the Digital Mapping System (DMS) onboard NASA's DC-8 flying laboratory. Photo by NASA/Digital Mapping System

Jan. 19, 2024

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

20/01/24
Author: 
Associated Press
A cargo ship waits near the Centennial Bridge for transit through the Panama Canal locks, in Panama City, on Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Agustin Herrera)

Jan. 18, 2024

A severe drought that began last year has forced authorities to slash ship crossings by 36% in the Panama Canal, one of the world's most important trade routes.

The new cuts announced Wednesday by authorities in Panama are set to deal an even greater economic blow than previously expected.

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