Bill Gates picked one hell of a moment to release his call for a “strategic pivot” in tackling climate change. “Hell” being the most frequent description of sheltering through the terrifying fury of Hurricane Melissa as it cut across the Caribbean.
The Alberta premier said she met with the right-wing think tank because of its influence on the president.
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Despite the announcement of a deal between the Palestinian resistance movement and the Israeli regime, the latter continues to violate the ceasefire provisions. The world treats the ceasefire as if the genocide has ended, but the reality on the ground tells a different story: Gaza is in ruins; and starvation, displacement, and death continue as deliberate tools of genocide. This so-called ceasefire exists only in rhetoric; genocide continues while diplomatic actors debate who allegedly broke the deal.
Canada’s long codependent economic relationship with the United States has abruptly and involuntarily ended. The election of a tariff-obsessed, unpredictable, incompetent, crony capitalist autocratic Donald Trump administration requires Canada to rethink its economic future.
British Columbians might be surprised to learn they are among the world’s most aggressive extractors of climate-destabilizing fossil fuels, per capita — and major projects that are already being built aim to make the province’s contribution much worse.
Seven charts help tell the story of how we got here.
