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24/10/24
Author: 
Elena Stein. Originally published in The Guardian.
Jews Shut Down The New York Stock Exchange Protesting Israeli Genocide

Oct. 18, 2024

Time after time, Sha’ban al-Dalou, a 19-year-old software engineering student living in Gaza, nearly escaped death. He began studying at Gaza’s al-Azhar University two months before it was destroyed in November by a US-made bomb dropped by Israeli forces.

23/10/24
Author: 
Israeli Citizens For International Pressure
Israeli Citizens For International Pressure

Oct. 2024

We, Israeli citizens residing in Israel and abroad, call on the international community – the UN and its institutions, the United States, the European Union, the League of Arab States, and all states around the world – to intervene immediately and implement every possible sanction towards achieving an immediate ceasefire between Israel and its neighbors, for the future of both peoples in Israel/Palestine and the peoples of the region, and for their rights to security and life.

23/10/24
Author: 
Amanda Stephenson
Nearly six months after its opening, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is boosting Canada's energy sector as promised — but questions still linger about who will pay for the project's massive cost overruns. In this photograph taken with a drone, the Trans Mountain Burnaby Terminal tank farm is seen in Burnaby, B.C., on Thursday, April 4, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Oct. 21, 2024

Six months on, what has the Trans Mountain pipeline project achieved and what’s next?

Nearly six months after its opening, the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is boosting Canada’s energy sector as promised – but questions still linger about who will pay for the project’s massive cost overruns.

By a variety of measures, the expensive and contentious pipeline project is bearing fruit as more Canadian oil reaches the West Coast to be shipped to export markets.

23/10/24
Author: 
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Edited by Chris McDermott
A woman from the Maasai tribe collects water in Kenya, Africa to carry back to the village. hadynyah / E+ / Getty Images

Oct. 18, 2024

If there is one natural resource that all life on Earth depends on, it’s water.

23/10/24
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
LNG Canada, a joint venture by Shell, PetroChina and other foreign firms, has nearly completed its terminal in Kitimat, BC. Photo via LNG Canada.

Oct. 23, 2024

Both major BC parties backed the methane boom. Two new Green MLAs might change the equation.

18/10/24
Author: 
Fiona Harvey Environment editor
A child drinks from a plastic container in Gaza. More than 2 billion people lack access to safe drinking water. Photograph: Abed Zagout/Anadolu via Getty Images

Oct. 16, 2024

Landmark review says urgent action needed to conserve resources and save ecosystems that supply fresh water

More than half the world’s food production will be at risk of failure within the next 25 years as a rapidly accelerating water crisis grips the planet, unless urgent action is taken to conserve water resources and end the destruction of the ecosystems on which our fresh water depends, experts have warned in a landmark review.

18/10/24
Author: 
Jordan Olmstead · The Canadian Press
The Ontario Court of Appeal ruled unanimously Thursday that the seven young people who launched a constitutional challenge against the provincial government's emissions targets will get a new hearing. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)

Oct. 17, 2024

Young people arguing Ontario's weakened emissions target violates their Charter rights

Ontario's top court has ordered a new hearing for a youth-led constitutional challenge of the provincial government's emissions target.

The Ontario Court of Appeal's ruling sends the case back to the lower court for a new hearing. It found the lower court judge's analysis was flawed on some key points and the case raised important issues that should be considered afresh.

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