USA

31/03/23
Author: 
Verity Stevenson
Pamela Haiala, originally from Congo, looks towards Canada with her son as they wait to cross into Canada at Roxham Road, an illegal crossing point from New York State to Quebec, in Champlain, N.Y., on March 24, 2023. (Carlos Osorio/Reuters)

Mar. 25, 2023

Stunned faces and heartbreak for migrants heading to Roxham as they learn Canada will likely send them back

Changes to Safe Third Country Agreement took migrants by surprise

At 4 a.m. on Saturday morning, two buses from New York City arrived at a gas station in Plattsburgh, N.Y., where groups of migrants carrying luggage and determined to cross into Canada disembarked with no knowledge of the closure of Roxham Road. 

28/03/23
Author: 
Mia Rabson & Laura Osman
A family of asylum seekers from Colombia is met by RCMP officers after crossing the border at Roxham Road into Canada on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 in Champlain, File photo by The Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz

Mar. 24, 2023

Canada and the United States have agreed to have asylum seekers turned back at irregular border crossings across the border, including Roxham Road in Quebec.

28/03/23
Author: 
Julia Conley
Samantha Hull looks for books at the Ephrata Public Library in Ephrata, Pennsylvania on March 2, 2022. (Photo: Kyle Grantham for The Washington Post via Getty Images) (Photo: Kyle Grantham for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Mar. 23, 2023

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27/03/23
Author: 
Amnesty International
Amnesty International logo

Mar. 24, 2023

Amnesty International Canada condemns the U.S. and Canadian governments’ agreement to expand, rather than rescind, the Safe Third Country Agreement in response to border crossings at Roxham Road.

23/03/23
Author: 
System Change Not Climate Change
Hydrogen: Fossil Fuel's Latest Hype

Website editor: This is a very interesting and informative webinar about the 'spin' on hydrogen.

Mar. 22, 2023

Ashley Kosak discusses the false promise of hydrogen as a climate change "solution." Hint: It's not. Hosted by David Klein for System Change Not Climate Change

Recording of webinar here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyZpH_lolAc

20/03/23
Author: 
Paul Street
gavel

Mar. 17, 2023

Sometimes it is hard to know who is worse: the Christian white nationalist neofascists who keep pushing the nation further right or the hollow and passive resistance of the fake-opposition Weimar Democrats who keep accommodating the ever more mainstreamed far right.

But we don’t have to choose.  The fascisation of US politics and policy reflects, among other things, a symbiotic, even “co-dependent” dance between the Republikaner right and those aligned with the not-so leftmost of the two dominant capitalist parties – the dismal Dems.

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19/03/23
Author: 
The Energy Mix
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Mar. 14, 2023

A Honolulu company is helping low-income families in Hawaii reduce energy costs while contributing to a more sustainable grid—by linking household water heaters to create a virtual power plant, effectively repurposing the ubiquitous appliances into grid batteries.

17/03/23
Author: 
The Editorial Board
Rebecca Chew/The New York Times

'In the long term, the best guarantee of American security has always been American prosperity and engagement with the rest of the world.'   And Canada?

Mar. 11, 2023

America’s increasingly confrontational posture toward China is a significant shift in U.S. foreign policy that warrants greater scrutiny and debate.

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