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21/07/23
Author: 
The Canadian Press
The Donnie Creek wildfire burns in an area between Fort Nelson and Fort St. John, B.C., in this undated handout photo provided by the BC Wildfire Service. Handout photo by BC Wildfire Service

July 18, 2023

Coroner's office issues safety alert over wildfire smoke after death of B.C. child

British Columbia's coroner has issued a public safety bulletin about wildfire smoke, saying the death of a nine-year-old boy had been "confirmed by his parents" to have been related to a medical condition aggravated by the smoke.

20/07/23
Author: 
David GellesPhotographs by Erin Schaff Reporting from Puerto Rico.
Missy Sims, a lawyer with Milberg, one of the biggest class-action firms in the world, at a cemetery in Lares, P.R.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times

July 19, 2023

A lawyer started small with a creative tactic. It grew into an effort that could force fossil fuel companies to pay hundreds of billions in damages.

Missy Sims carefully picked her way through a field of ruined tombs in central Puerto Rico, in a cemetery where walls of water from Hurricane Maria had smashed open some coffins and sent others careering into a nearby stream.

Six years later, the burial place in Lares, where more than 1,700 graves were damaged, is still shattered.

19/07/23
Author: 
Zak Vescera
The proposed Roberts Bank port expansion would dramatically increase container capacity. Illustration via the Port of Vancouver.

Jul 19, 2023

The union and employers supported the agreement. The workers didn’t.

19/07/23
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Pascal Bergeron holds his young son in his arms at Camp de la Rivière, a citizen occupation on a forest road near Gaspé, Que., that leads to the site of the oil company Junex. It was created in August 2017 to demand that drilling work be stopped. Photo by Isabelle Hayeur

April 15, 2022

Quebec became the first jurisdiction in the world Tuesday to explicitly ban oil and gas development in its territory after decades of campaigning by environmental organizations and citizen groups.

"Citizens rallied, citizens regrouped and actually won this fight because it was in their backyards … it would have had major impacts on their way of living on the territory," Émile Boisseau-Bouvier, Équiterre’s climate policy analyst, told Canada’s National Observer.

18/07/23
Author: 
The Early Edition - CBC
Stephen Quinn

July 17, 2023

It’s wildfire season in B.C. right now. We hear about just how bad the air quality is in British Columbia.  [and more besides]

Listen here: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-91-the-early-edition/clip/15997846-the-impacts-wildfire-season-b.c.-summer

Top photo: Stephen Quinn of The Early Edition

16/07/23
Author: 
George Monbiot
 Illustration: Kingsley Nebechi/The Guardian

Jul 15, 2023

With our food systems on the verge of collapse, it’s the plutocrats v life on Earth

Climate breakdown and crop losses threaten our survival, but the ultra-rich find ever more creative ways to maintain the status quo

 

16/07/23
Author: 
Dianne Mathiowetz, Workers World
Photo: Credit: Housing Justice League, Facebook.

Jul 15, 2023

Atlanta, Georgia – Tenants and housing activists packed the Neighborhood Church in East Atlanta July 8 for a People’s Town Hall to launch a statewide effort to overturn a Georgia law that forbids any rent control measures from being enacted in any jurisdiction.

People traveled from around the state, coming from small towns and large cities like Valdosta near the Florida border, Columbus and Albany. Atlanta and its suburbs were well represented.

16/07/23
Author: 
Dongsheng News, Orinoco Tribune
China confronts the challenges posed by rapid economic development, urbanization, and the migration of recent decades. Dongsheng.

Jul 14, 2023

16/07/23
Author: 
Grey Anderson and Thomas Meaney
Virginia Mayo/Associated Press

Jul 11, 2023

NATO leaders convening this week in Vilnius, Lithuania, have every reason to toast their success.

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