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02/08/23
Author: 
Georgia Kelly
Thorncliffe Park Tenants holding a rally on May 1, 2023. Credit: Thorncliffe Park Tenants

July 26, 2023

Tenants take back power from landlords through strike action

When Mohamad Khalil Aldroubi heard that his landlord would be increasing the rent by up to 5.5 per cent starting last May, he started knocking on his neighbours’ doors. 

Aldroubi’s family has lived at an apartment complex at 71 Thorncliffe Park Dr., Toronto, since 2015. He has five kids. Like him, other tenants at other apartment complexes at 71, 75, and 79 Thorncliffe Park were already struggling to manage previous rate hikes. 

02/08/23
Author: 
The Breach
Canada’s trains are key to a sustainable future - video

Jul 24, 2023

[Editor: interesting and informative video here]


Canada was on track to be a leader in high-speed rail—and then we chose highways. But we don’t have to stay married to cars. Trains hold one key to accessibility, climate safety, and colonial restitution.

Watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MhQI_Mcux4

02/08/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson arrives to take part in a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, June 15, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Aug. 1, 2023

As Canada rolled out a host of climate policies aimed at the fossil fuel industry, Shell sat down with Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson to discuss the fate of its massive LNG project on the West Coast, documents reveal.

02/08/23
Author: 
Ann Garrison
Virtual Slave Labor Supports Congo Cobalt Mines Men are making $1 a day, women 80 cents a day, and their children work in the mines instead of going to school.

Jul 31, 2023

Virtual Slave Labor Supports Congo Cobalt Mines - Men are making $1 a day, women 80 cents a day, and their children work in the mines instead of going to school.

Following is an interview conducted by Ann Garrison with Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of the Congo, about the virtual slave labor in the cobalt mines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s cobalt mines.

02/08/23
Author: 
Joel Stronberg, originally published by Civil Notion
photo by Matt Palmer on Unsplash
July 31, 2023

As if we needed more reminders of the impacts of Earth’s warming, it’s being reported:

that climate change is destabilizing the insurance industry, driving up prices and pushing insurers out of high-risk markets.”

02/08/23
Author: 
Markham Hislop
Petroleum can be used for super strong and light carbon fibre, a material key to technologies we’ll need in a low-emissions economy. Photo via Shutterstock.

Jul. 31, 2023

A Better Use for Alberta’s Oil and Gas - Look to the future. Commit the province’s petroleum to making materials for a post-combustion economy?

[Tyee Editor’s note: This piece is drawn from a recently published version on Markham Hislop’s site Energi Media.]

24/07/23
Author: 
Jen St. Denis
Ryan Le Neal with his small portable air conditioner. Tenants at his building in New Westminster were warned by their landlord that using an air conditioner could breach their tenancy agreements. Photo by Jen St. Denis.

July 21, 2023

As some landlords warn away from plugging in cooling units, here are tenants’ rights and options.

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