Capitalism

Did the climate world misread Carney?

01/12/25

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John Woodside

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Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Dec. 1, 2025

Mark Carney, the central banker, was the thought leader the climate movement needed: someone who could translate the reality of climate change into the language of finance. As prime minister, he is torching the country’s climate policies, while pouring government time and resources into new fossil fuel infrastructure. To state the obvious, these are not the decisions of a climate champion.

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A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won’t Admit

01/12/25

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Andrew Nikiforuk

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The Tyee

The plan to daily pump 1.4 million more barrels of bitumen includes expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline, shown here being buried in Abbotsford, BC, in 2023. Photo by Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press.

Dec. 1, 2025

An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.

Lo and behold, Prime Minister Mark Carney, a global banker, and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a petro-populist à la Donald Trump, have big energy plans for Canadians.

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Carney's latest pipedream (fraud) explained

26/11/25

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Nov. 26, 2025

A forthcoming deal between the federal government and Alberta for a new oil pipeline, reportedly set to be announced Thursday, promises to ignite a political firestorm.

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What We Forgot About Socialism: Lessons from The Red Riviera

25/11/25

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Kristen R. Ghodsee

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The Bullet

Nov. 19, 2025

Twenty years ago in November of 2005, Duke University Press published my first book: The Red Riviera: Gender, Tourism, and Postsocialism on the Black Sea. Produced in the wake of socialism’s global collapse and the riot of Western triumphalism that ensued, I deployed both qualitative and quantitative methods to advance a simple, but unpopular, argument: for most people in the former Soviet bloc, capitalism sucked.

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COP30 Isn't a Failure — It's a Farce

23/11/25

Author:

Peter Gelderloos

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In These Times

Indigenous protesters march outside the COP30 climate conference in Belém do Pará, Brazil on Nov. 17. Photo by Peter Gelderloos

Nov. 21, 2025

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COP 30: it’s no joke

23/11/25

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Michael Roberts

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Michael Roberts Blog

Nov.23, 2025

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Labour’s Climate Fight Requires Public Ownership

21/11/25

Author:

Vinnie Collins

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The Bullet

Nov. 21, 2025

Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York’s Democratic Party primary for mayor in June 2025 and victory in the general election on November 4th has provided a dose of hope to a Left seeking a path forward amid a dire political landscape. His campaign succeeded by offering real solutions to working-class concerns – including on climate policy and its connection to New Yorkers’ material conditions.

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Canada’s largest pension fund increases fossil fuel investments

21/11/25

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Gabriela Calugay-Casuga

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Rabble

Part of the Keystone fossil fuel pipeline system. Credit: shannonpatrick17 / Flickr

Nov. 20, 2025

Earlier this year, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board dropped its net-zero greenhouse gas emission commitment.

The board managing Canada’s largest pension fund has committed an estimated $7.1 billion to new oil, gas, coal and pipeline assets in the last year despite facing litigation for allegedly mismanaging climate related financial risks in its investment portfolio.

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With Pipeline Deal Coming Soon, New Analysis Shows Big Risks for Investors, Crushing Losses for Provinces

21/11/25

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Mitchell Beerwith files from The Canadian Press

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The Energy Mix

Nov. 20, 2025

With the federal and Alberta governments touting an imminent deal on a new oil pipeline to British Columbia’s northwest coast, analysis released Thursday morning concludes that investors in Canadian oil and gas will face serious financial risk—and provincial revenues from the industry could fall 82%—as the global energy transition unfolds through the 2030s.

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“Insane” forest math hastens collapse - Leaked report claims B.C. timber harvest is vastly overestimated

21/11/25

Author:

Stefan Labbé

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Business Intelligence for BC

The independent review found B.C.'s logging models for the Mackenzie timber supply region used wildly unrealistic assumptions, and ignored real-world risks like increased wildfire, drought and disease in a pattern likely playing out across the province.Rob Kruyt/BIV

Nov. 19, 2025

An undisclosed report obtained by BIV estimates the province is likely approving twice as much logging as can be sustainably harvested

A leaked technical review prepared for a group of First Nations claims British Columbia is greatly overestimating how much timber it can sustainably harvest in a push for short-term economic gains.

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Capitalism

An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.

Earlier this year, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board dropped its net-zero greenhouse gas emission commitment.

An undisclosed report obtained by BIV estimates the province is likely approving twice as much logging as can be sustainably harvested

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