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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.

16/07/23
Author: 
Maria Virginia Olano
Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format.

Jul 14, 2023

As the country pushes for clean energy at home, it is still sending record-breaking amounts of planet-warming fossil gas abroad.

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format.

14/07/23
Author: 
Alex Cosh
Photo credit: Kelly Sikkema via Unsplash. Licensed under the Unsplash License.

July 11, 2023

The poorest 40 per cent of Canadians control less than three per cent of net wealth.

Data published by Statistics Canada last week show that the gap between rich and poor Canadians is growing at the fastest rate on record.

09/07/23
Author: 
Mitchell Beer
Dwayne Reilander/wikimedia commons

Jul 8, 2023

We may soon remember this week’s record-shattering heat as an historic low temperature mark. But that hasn't slowed down the oil and gas spin machine.

What if this week’s series of record-shattering high temperatures turned out to be tomorrow’s record low, the benchmark against which future years and decades of global warming will be measured?

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