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Are you breaking cultural glass? - "Stubborn Optimism" Postponing Needed Climate Action??

01/02/24

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Marc Lopatin

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Feb. 1, 2024

Last month, global bank HSBC was accused of duping the public for helping to raise £37 billion for companies investing in new oil and gas fields. It shines an urgent light on why meaningful climate action remains largely illusionary.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Climate 'Not Mentioned' in Alberta Water-Sharing Talks

01/02/24

Author:

Bob Weber

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National Observer

Environment Minister Rebecca Schulz says negotiations between water licence holders in three southern Alberta river basins will open this week. Schulz shakes hands with Premier Danielle Smith in Edmonton on Oct. 24, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

Jan. 31, 2024

Drought-weary Alberta opens water-sharing talks with large users

EDMONTON — Lance Colby saw what was coming.

The Alberta government said Wednesday it would open talks on water-sharing between large users as the province's drought situation worsens. But Colby, chair of the Mountain View Regional Water Services Commission in central Alberta, had already begun such discussions.

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How Hope's Politicians Changed Minds on Pride Flag

01/02/24

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Tyler Olsen

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Fraser Valley Current

Jan. 30, 2024

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British Columbia

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Are the provinces trying to break Canada?

01/02/24

Author:

Max Fawcett

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National Observer

Ontario Premier Doug Ford participates in a discussion with future Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at the 2019 Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Feb. 1, 2024

Of all Pierre Poilievre’s familiar slogans, there’s one that stands above the rest: Canada is broken. There’s no shortage of irony there, not least because what little we know of his proposed plans and policies revolve almost exclusively around breaking things, whether it’s the CBC or Canada’s climate change policies. But the most ironic thing of all is that while Poilievre pretends Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are breaking the country, its conservative premiers are busy doing exactly that.

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TIMELINE: Police Violations Against Women Journalists in Canada

01/02/24

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Women Press Freedom

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Women Press Freedom

Timeline of a rising pattern of police violence against women journalists in Canada

Jan. 2024

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Canada

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Canada’s op-ed pages offer one-sided support for Israel, study shows

01/02/24

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Jeremy Appel

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The Breach

Canada’s op-ed pages offer one-sided support for Israel, study shows

Jan. 25, 2024

Almost 90 per cent of opinion columns recently published by Canada’s major newspapers defended Israel’s war on Gaza

A small fraction of recent opinion articles published by Canada’s major newspapers expressed opposition to Israel’s war on Gaza or support for the idea that Israel should be held accountable, an analysis by The Breach has found.

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Arms Exports to Israel Violate Canadian and International Law

31/01/24

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Canadian and Palestinian Coalition

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The Bullet

Jan. 31, 2024

On January 28, a coalition of Canadians and Palestinians wrote to Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly demanding that the federal government immediately halt all exports and transfers of Canadian military goods and technology to Israel.

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Organize, yes, but how?

31/01/24

Author:

David Camfield

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Tempest

Dec. 29, 2023

A new book takes a broad look at the protest movements of the 2010s and asks why—despite being massive—most of these movements fell far short of their goals. In this review, David Camfield takes issue with the author’s prescription for building more successful struggles.

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Why a Decade of Protests Didn’t Lead to Revolution

29/01/24

Author:

incent Bevins, Daniel Denvir

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Znetwork

Demonstrators on an army truck in Tahrir Square, Cairo, January 29, 2011. (Ramy Raoof / Wikimedia Commons)

Jan. 26, 2024

Between 2010 and 2020, a wave of protests erupted around the world. In some cases, these movements strengthened socialist forces. In others, they opened the door to the Right. Vincent Bevins spoke to Jacobin to explain the causes of this divergence.

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Direct Action Shuts Down Israeli-Owned Weapons Factory

28/01/24

Author:

Rivkah Brown

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The Bullet

Direct Action Shuts Down Israeli-Owned Weapons Factory

Jan. 28, 2024

In August 2014, Adie Mormech got a Facebook message he will never forget. It was from Wafaa, one of his former students in Gaza. “Adie do u remember Huda that was in your class in Afaq she was my friend.” Of course he remembered Huda: her humour; her quirkiness; how she’d come to class early to tell him stories; the gifts she gave him when he left; her excitement about her upcoming wedding. Huda, Wafaa wrote, was dead.

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Drought-weary Alberta opens water-sharing talks with large users

Almost 90 per cent of opinion columns recently published by Canada’s major newspapers defended Israel’s war on Gaza

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