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

What Has to Change Beauty Dhlamini -
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

What Has to Change Peter Bofinger -
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

What Has to Change Taylor C. Noakes -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Canada’s former Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney reshaped ...

Canada is falling behind other countries in meeting the needs of former youth in care

What Has to Change Jacquie Gahagan, Dale Kirby, Kristyn Anderson and Steven Smith -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Can we do better in Canada to meet the needs of former youth in care? Young adults...

Scientists and doctors raise global alarm over hormone-disrupting chemicals

What Has to Change Alden Wicker -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, which harm the human body’s regulation of hormones, have become ubiquitous in consumer products,...

What Mulroney got wrong on free trade with the U.S.

What Has to Change Maude Barlow -
Click here to view original web page at www.thestar.com The “free market” has failed us time and again. Canada’s founding narrative was...

The importance of critical minerals should not condone their extraction at all costs

What Has to Change Elizabeth Steyn -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Global warming is real and climate change is worsening day-by-day with raging forest fires, unseasonably warm...

It’s Time to Dismantle the US Sanctions-Industrial Complex

What Has to Change Ben Wray -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com The US has built up an elaborate machinery for waging economic warfare on its rivals ...

Forced Migration Grows, Justice Withers, Say Activists at World Social Forum

What Has to Change Marty Logan -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net As involuntary migration rises around the world, partly in response to the impacts of climate change,...

The West Is Sabotaging a Global Pandemic Treaty

What Has to Change Leigh Phillips -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Virologists, epidemiologists, and public health experts are unanimous in their opinion ...

Unveiling the Power Play: Non-Profit Funding as a Strategic Tool for Agenda Setting

What Has to Change Debra Nhokwara and Tafadzwa Munyaka -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net In the realm of public discourse, non-profit organizations often serve as the torchbearers of societal...

Artificial Intelligence: Energy Drain in the Material World

What Has to Change Bart Hawkins Kreps -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Bodies, Minds, and the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Complex, part two Picture a relatively...

The provinces are trying to break Canada

What Has to Change Max Fawcett -
Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com Of all Pierre Poilievre’s familiar slogans, there’s one that stands above the rest: Canada is broken....

Ocean heating breaks record, again, with disastrous outcomes for the planet

What Has to Change Elizabeth Claire Alberts -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com New research shows that ocean temperatures are hotter than ever in the modern era due to...

Parasitic Capital: How Private Equity Came To Dominate The Market

What Has to Change Doug Henwood -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com Private equity, now a major presence in the global economic landscape, has been booming since the...

International students cap falsely blames them for Canada’s housing and health-care woes

What Has to Change Leah Hamilton and Yvonne Su -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) has announced a new cap on international students. In 2024, IRCC...

Stephanie Kelton Thinks the Conventional Wisdom Is Changing

What Has to Change Stephanie Kelton -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com In an interview with Jacobin, economist Stephanie Kelton argues that we're seeing a paradigm shift away...

Markets and forests: 7 takeaways from our series on the forest carbon trade

What Has to Change John Cannon -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com This is the wrap-up article for our five-part series on forest carbon credits and the voluntary...

Canadian schools need to address digital sexual violence in their curricula and policies

What Has to Change Alexa Dodge, Christopher Dietzel, Kaitlynn Mendes, Nikita Kalwani and Suzie Dunn -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV) is on the rise among Canadian youth. In an international study that...

Welcome to Canada’s New Gilded Age

What Has to Change David Moscrop -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com In Canada’s New Gilded Age, CEOs are enjoying record pay, earning a worker’s average yearly salary...

A New Year’s Resolution aimed at politicians in the UK: Time to rethink government debt and borrowing rules

What Has to Change Dominic Caddick -
Click here to view original web page at neweconomics.org As we enter 2024, we begin the season of setting new rules and resolutions for our...

Indigenous-led coalition calls for moratorium on terrestrial carbon trade

What Has to Change John Cannon -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com The Pathways Alliance for Change and Transformation (PACT), a coalition of Indigenous, community and nonprofit organizations,...

Excessive supermarket profits boost inflation

What Has to Change Jim Stanford -
Click here to view original web page at www.nationalobserver.com After a year of grappling with soaring food prices, Canadians are probably dreading the big trip...

How Big Oil is Taking Us for a Fossil-Fuelized Ride

What Has to Change Juan Cole -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org With the World the Hottest in 125,000 Years, We’re Being Gaslighted A recent opinion poll rocked the...

Climate-friendly food systems start with different values, not technologies

What Has to Change Philip Loring -
Click here to view original web page at www.resilience.org Sims Hill Shared Harvest If we want to transform our relationship with food, we need...

Canada’s mRNA contribution helped Big Pharma, but left out global poor

What Has to Change Linda McQuaig -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca Canadian taxpayers played a key role in funding the technology that made mRNA vaccines possible. Yet...

COP28 ‘breakthrough’ elevates litigation as vital route to climate action

What Has to Change Justin Catanoso -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com In the past three decades, the United Nations has sponsored 28 annual climate summits. But that...

Rampant consumerism leads to inequality and climate catastrophe

What Has to Change David Suzuki and Ian Hanington -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca As long as people continue to worship money and stuff, ...

What Will Tomorrow’s World Order Look Like?

What Has to Change Marc Saxer -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net Ukraine, the Caucasus and the Middle East. The latest eruptions of violence mark the end of...

Food insecurity in Canada is the worst it’s ever been — here’s how we can solve it

What Has to Change Valerie Tarasuk and Tim Li -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com According to the latest Statistics Canada data, household food insecurity in the 10 provinces has reached...
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