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B.C. community groups and First Nation file court challenge against regulator over pipeline

Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com A coalition of community groups and a First Nation in Northern British Columbia have launched a...

Let’s discuss the true cost of privatization in Ontario

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca In a forum on Ontario’s healthcare system, expert speakers will delve into the consequences of prioritizing...

Long-term care REITs fueling the housing crisis in Canada

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Corporations driven to maximize profits are contributing to the rapid decrease in affordable...

Climate change fuels wildfires worldwide

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Hotter, drier weather for longer periods increases the likelihood of fires and their ability to...

Microbeads made from brewery waste can contribute to a plastic-free future

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Plastic microbeads, those tiny troublemakers found in the personal care products of the early 1990s to...

AI’s Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet’s Hyper-Consumption Era

Click here to view original web page at www.wired.com Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on...

Degrowth offers a path to a truly just global energy transition

Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com As the world inevitably transitions away from fossil fuel extraction, there’s a growing international consensus that...

Global Impact: The Hidden Environmental Costs of AI

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com In early May, Google announced it would be adding artificial intelligence (AI) to its search engine....

Addressing the Triple Threat of Debt, Climate, and Development

Click here to view original web page at fpif.org As the world speeds past the target of keeping warming to 1.5 Celsius above preindustrial levels,...

Living in a False Reality: Better Ventilation In Schools Is Critical

Click here to view original web page at apuffofabsurdity.blogspot.com Without testing or wastewater data warning us of rising cases of viruses in our regions ahead...

Canadian mines a threat to Alaskan Indigenous rights

Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com This story was originally published by High Country News and appears here as part of ...

Canada needs to start seeing Africa as a collaborator

Click here to view original web page at policyoptions.irpp.org Africa is brimming with economic opportunity, and Canada can be a pivotal partner. But it must...

An oligopoly keeps driving up grocery prices. What can we do?

Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/05/30/opinion/Food-insecurity-inflation-Loblaw Ryan Labatiuk, a resident of Prince George, BC, is on disability benefits. Recently, it has been...

For a Green Transition, We Must Decommodify Electricity

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Review of The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet by ...

Clear-cutting: Ontario Line Plans Are Destroying Parts of the Don Valley

Click here to view original web page at spacing.ca Giant machines have felled every tree and scraped all vegetation through great swaths of the Don...

Study: Air pollution from Canada’s oil sands is 20 to 64 times worse than industry claims

Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Key findings: The amount of air pollution coming from Canada’s oil sands extraction is between 20 and...

Corporate price gouging. That’s the real problem

Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com It seems almost too obvious to say aloud: to solve our affordability challenges, prices, which have...

Game changer: A Québec labour group is pushing for a province-wide video game workers’ union

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Two labour organizations in Québec, Game Workers Unite (GWU) Montréal and the trade union Confédération des...

Facing the Challenges in Expanding the Commonsverse

Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Abstract Over the past two decades, hundreds of different commons around the world have arisen and developed...

Leaders Need to Break the Chokehold of Debt and Austerity. Our Health Depends on it

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net As leaders gather for the Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank amid the cherry...

Seven Hard Truths about the Climate Crisis

Click here to view original web page at thewalrus.ca The consensus is in: cooling the planet will be impossible without direct human intervention. How can...

Why Farmers in India and Pakistan Are Shifting to Natural or Regenerative Farming

Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net Regenerative farming is seen as a climate solution, with advocates saying that it is the most...

Ending stealth subsidies to banks is vital — but so is scrapping our borrowing rules

Click here to view original web page at neweconomics.org Gordon Brown has said the UK needs to get out of its ​“doom loop of poverty”....

The Global Laws That Help Corporations Block Climate Action

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com However much the British government plays fast and loose with our future by treating climate change...

Is starving Ontario’s hospitals and schools really something to brag about?

Click here to view original web page at spon.ca The root cause of Ontario’s low spending on public services is our strong aversion to raising...

Is CSIS embroiling Canadian universities in US Cold War with China?

Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) efforts with the “principals of the largest Canadian research universities,”...

AI’s excessive water consumption threatens to drown out its environmental contributions

Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Water is needed for development, production and consumption, yet we are overusing ...

The world pretends the pandemic is over because of who it affects

Click here to view original web page at www.redpepper.org.uk The rolling back of COVID-19 safety measures is leaving many marginalized people behind, writes Beauty Dhlamini Nothing...

The European Central Bank and inflation: Like a general fighting the last war

Click here to view original web page at www.socialeurope.eu Europe needs massive investment, Peter Bofinger writes. Yet the ECB’s restrictive monetary stance means...

Brian Mulroney Shaped a Canada of False Hopes and Eroded Possibilities

Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Canada’s former Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney reshaped ...
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