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Courts Will Hear Groundbreaking Climate Cases in 2023

What We Must Protect Dana Drugmand -
Click here to view original web page at www.commondreams.org From Australia to the EU to the U.S., governments will be on trial ...

The Surveillance State in Your Phone

What We Must Protect RONALD J. DEIBERT -
Click here to view original web page at www.foreignaffairs.com How Mercenary Spyware Threatens Democracy Daniel Stolle Save this article to read later Print this articleIn the...

The Decline and Fragility of Democracy Worldwide

What We Must Protect Thalif Deen -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net A head of state who presided over an authoritarian regime in Southeast Asia, was once asked...

LORINC: 10 questions about the Ontario Place redevelopment

What We Must Protect John Lorinc -
Click here to view original web page at spacing.ca At some point this week, City officials will upload the Ford government’s zoning bylaw amendment application...

COP27: Agreement on Loss and Damage Fund is Landmark Win

What We Must Protect Meena Raman -
Click here to view original web page at www.ipsnews.net COP 27 delivered on what was the ‘litmus test’ for its success – consensus on the...

Earth has lost four-fifths of its fresh water and 70% of wildlife populations in 50 years

What We Must Protect Juan Cole -
Click here to view original web page at canadiandimension.com The 2022 Living Planet report is out and it does not bring good news. ...

In the Sacred Headwaters, There’s Hope and Healing

What We Must Protect Erica H. Isomura -
Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca The doc film ‘The Klabona Keepers,’ part of VIFF this year, is a triumph of filmmaking...

Should ‘Vacancy Control’ Be a Ballot Issue?

What We Must Protect Patrick Condon -
Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca Here’s the case for tightly capping the rent landlords can charge when a unit changes tenants. One...

Ontario’s Premier, Doug Ford, Wants to Privatize Canadian Health Care

What We Must Protect David Moscrop -
Click here to view original web page at jacobin.com The Right broke Ontario’s health care system. Now they can’t wait to replace it with a...

Why we’re about to hear that Big Pharma is the victim

What We Must Protect Nikolas Barry-Shaw -
Click here to view original web page at breachmedia.ca In anticipation of pharmacare legislation, we’re beginning to see absurd takes about drug company profits from...

This Canada Day, settler Canadians should think about land back

What We Must Protect Kaitie Jourdeuil -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Last Canada Day, Parliament Hill teemed with orange as thousands marched in response to the unmarked...

Canada’s Online News Act Needs These Fixes To Sustain Local Journalism

What We Must Protect Independent Online News Publishers of Canada -
Click here to view original web page at thetyee.ca When the Liberal government announced its intention to support Canada’s news industry, the reasons given were...

The Return of the State by Graeme Garrard review – why active government is back

What We Must Protect Polly Toynbee -
Click here to view original web page at www.theguardian.com The pandemic has showed that everyone needs the state, but how can it continue to meet...

Wet agriculture could protect peatlands and climate, but remains largely unexplored

What We Must Protect Rafael Ziegler, Magili Simard, and Rahma Eldeeb -
Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com Across the globe, peatlands are under threat and their destruction is contributing to climate change. Damaged...

Land restoration requires immediate action and Indigenous land rights, says U.N. report

What We Must Protect Dimitri Selibas -
Click here to view original web page at news.mongabay.com Global food systems are responsible for 80% of the world’s deforestation, 70% of freshwater use, and...

Yelling into the Void: Legal Aid Needs Help Urgently

What We Must Protect Angie Budhwa -
Click here to view original web page at policyresponse.ca Over two years ago, Ontario Premier Doug Ford slashed Legal Aid Ontario’s (“LAO”) budget by almost...

6 Big Findings from the IPCC 2022 Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability

What We Must Protect Kelly Levin, Sophie Boehm and Rebecca Carter -
Click here to view original web page at www.wri.org The newest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a troubling picture: Climate...

Wildlife corridors: From divide and conquer to connect and restore

What We Must Protect David Suzuki -
Click here to view original web page at rabble.ca As we journey through the UN-declared “decade of restoration,” connectivity initiatives are growing worldwide, sometimes in...

Public R & D Investments Must Benefit Everyone

What We Must Protect Curated by SocialCommons.ca -
Click here to view original web page at neweconomics.org Though focused on the situation in Britain, this research highlights the fundamental failure of many supposed...

World Oceans Day: We cannot meet sustainable development goals with a sick ocean

What We Must Protect Curated by SocialCommons.ca -
This Spanish professor of oceanography documents the importance of the oceans and reflects on how we do not all equally benefit from “humanity’s greatest...
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