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29/06/25
Author: 
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Edited by Chris McDermott
Activists from Rise and Resist, Truth Tuesdays and Extinction Rebellion gathered in the public space in front of Fox Headquarters in Manhattan to protest the network's ongoing propagation of dangerous climate lies, as part of Earth Week on April 19, 2022. Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images

June 23, 2025

Unchecked climate misinformation has been turning crisis into catastrophe, according to a new report from the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE).

26/06/25
Author: 
Christopher Holcroft
Dropping of the guard? Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit. Photo by Mark Schiefelbein, the Associated Press.

June 20, 2025

For Carney, It’s Elbows Down

Elected on a promise to fight for Canada, our new prime minister has drawn closer to the US.

24/06/25
Author: 
The Breach
Carney CEO of Canada

6-minute video summarizes an unfolding nightmare for many Canadians and immigrants/refugees. Relief at keeping Poilievre from becoming PM is revealed as an illusion.

    -- Gene McGuckin

Jun. 19, 2025

Mark Carney’s first 100 days a blitz of pro-corporate, Trump-friendly moves

 

Carney has seized on Trump’s tariff crisis to push through a pro-corporate agenda that attacks Indigenous peoples, workers, and the environment

Now, it’s up to social movements to respond as quickly.

29/05/25
Author: 
Pocharapon Neammanee
Jared Kaplan, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Anthropic, said scientists "can't rule" out that the company's latest AI model is "risky."  Chris J. Ratcliffe/Bloomberg via Getty Images

May 24, 2025

Amazon-Backed AI Model Would Try To Blackmail Engineers Who Threatened To Take It Offline

In tests, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 would resort to "extremely harmful actions" to preserve its own existence, a safety report revealed.

The company behind an Amazon-backed AI model revealed a number of concerning findings from its testing process, including that the AI would blackmail engineers who threatened to shut it down.

25/05/25
Author: 
Thomas B. Edsall
Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

May 20, 2025

25 May 25

One thing stands out amid all the chaos, corruption and disorder: the wanton destructiveness of the Trump presidency.

The targets of President Trump’s assaults include the law, higher education, medical research, ethical standards, America’s foreign alliances, free speech, the civil service, religion, the media and much more.

23/05/25
Author: 
Mitchell Beer
Pick a Path installation - Common Horizon

May  22, 2025

Ahead of next week’s Speech from the Throne, four national climate groups mounted a 95-metre fabric installation in Ottawa’s Major’s Hill Park on Wednesday, urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to “pick a path” between new oil and gas pipelines and climate action.

16/05/25
Author: 
Unifor
Burnaby  oil refinery

May 9, 2025

BURNABY—Unifor is raising serious concerns about the sale of one of British Columbia’s last remaining oil refineries to American energy giant Sunoco. The refinery is part of a larger list of assets across Canada being sold from Parkland to Sunoco.

“This is not the time to hand over control of critical energy infrastructure to a foreign multinational, especially in the middle of a trade war,” said Unifor National President Lana Payne. “Unifor is sounding the alarm because energy security is national security, and we cannot afford to gamble with it.”

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