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Trudeau and His North Van Climate Minister Are ‘Wrestling’ with a Massive Oilsands Decision
Trudeau and His North Van Climate Minister Are ‘Wrestling’ with a Massive Oilsands Decision Teck’s Frontier mine would kill emissions targets, say analysts. The Trudeau government is under intense scrutiny for a looming decision — one that will powerfully signal whether it favours oil patch growth over fighting the climate emergency. Will the Liberals approve […]
One Year after RCMP Raid, Tensions Rise as Wet’suwet’en Evict Pipeline Company
One Year after RCMP Raid, Tensions Rise as Wet’suwet’en Evict Pipeline Company ‘It’s unnerving that might be our reality again.’ One year after a police raid in northern British Columbia attracted international attention, tensions between Wet’suwet’en land defenders and Coastal GasLink are rising once again. The company’s recent victory in winning a court decision granting […]
At the TMX Pipeline Hearing, the Sham of ‘Consultation’ Laid Bare
At the TMX Pipeline Hearing, the Sham of ‘Consultation’ Laid Bare Canada ‘barged ahead’ with what ‘cannot be in the public interest,’ argue First Nations. Those nations oppose the approval of TMX, as do several others, including the Coldwater Indian Band, located inland just south of the town of Merritt. The Coldwater’s opposition stems from […]
Canada’s “Enron-style” Economics: Most Wealth Redistribution Occurs Off the Books
Canada’s “Enron-style” Economics: Most Wealth Redistribution Occurs Off the Books The Trudeau Administration’s reappointment of Bill Morneau as the country’s Finance Minister last week was by far its most important. During his first term, Morneau managed to hold together a shaky Canadian economy, which for the past three decades has relied on driving borrowing and […]
Sidewalk Labs’ Smart Cities Will Create A For-Profit Social Credit System That Controls Judges And Police
Sidewalk Labs’ Smart Cities Will Create A For-Profit Social Credit System That Controls Judges And Police Smart city surveillance, is much worse than anyone could have imagined. Two years ago, I revealed how a CIA “signature school” was installing thousands of CCTV cameras and microphones in smart cities, but Sidewalk Labs wants to take public surveillance to […]
Politicians Offered a Choice between Climate Fantasies as Our Future Grows Bleaker
Politicians Offered a Choice between Climate Fantasies as Our Future Grows Bleaker Greta Thunberg is right — across Canada we are acting like ‘spoiled irresponsible children.’ Now that we can open the windows again and clear the air of political flatulence, perhaps we can acknowledge the realities that remain like ghosts in our troubled house. […]
The Ghost Election Issue We Need to Get Real about: Personal Debt
The Ghost Election Issue We Need to Get Real about: Personal Debt Canadians are so deep in the red it colours how we see vital issues. Today we manufacture armored vehicles for the brutal regime in Saudi Arabia while fretting about domestic job losses if we don’t. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer pledges to slash Canada’s already paltry […]
Frost-Apocalypse Set To Sweep Across US, Could Mark End Of Growing Season
Frost-Apocalypse Set To Sweep Across US, Could Mark End Of Growing Season We are tracking frost and freeze potential US temperature weather maps this weekend that indicate a strong possibility frost-apocalypse is headed for the Pacific, Rocky Mountains, and Midwest regions over the next ten days. This could mean the end of the growing season […]
Why Trudeau’s Trans Mountain Dreams May Trickle Out in Coldwater
Why Trudeau’s Trans Mountain Dreams May Trickle Out in Coldwater IN DEPTH: A tiny Indigenous band’s epic pipeline fight takes its biggest turn. On the Friday evening of June 7, Chief Lee Spahan of the Coldwater Indian Band received an email from Mitchell Taylor, Q.C., head of a federal consultation team acting under the auspices […]
Canada Catches America’s Cold – PMI Plunges To 4 Year Lows
Canada Catches America’s Cold – PMI Plunges To 4 Year Lows As goes America, so goes Canada it seems. Following the collapse in both Manufacturing and Services survey data in the US, Canada’s PMI just collapsed most since Feb 2016, back into contraction for the first time since March 2015. From a 12-month high of 60.6in […]
Quit Chastising Brazil, Canada. You’re a Climate Killer, Too
Quit Chastising Brazil, Canada. You’re a Climate Killer, Too Some want global intervention against ‘rogue’ climate states. That may not end so well for us. The two both ask and answer their own question in the Globe and Mail piece. “Is it acceptable that a single government can unilaterally adopt environmental policies that put millions […]
As Election Nears, Canada’s Biggest Oil Firm Is Noticeably Quiet
As Election Nears, Canada’s Biggest Oil Firm Is Noticeably Quiet Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he’s Canada’s energy ‘champion.’ Yet he opposes climate policy Suncor supports. As we race towards a federal election that will determine if and how Canada responds to the climate emergency, one central player is noticeably absent. Suncor is without a […]
Killing Free Speech in Canada
Killing Free Speech in Canada As has become standard in such cases, the charter contains no definition of what constitutes “hate”, making it a catchall for whatever the Canadian government deems politically inopportune. This is all exhaustingly familiar by now: Germany already has legislation that requires social media platforms to censor their users. France is […]
Changing Climate, Vanishing Old Growth Bring Increase Fire Risk for Coastal Forests
Changing Climate, Vanishing Old Growth Bring Increase Fire Risk for Coastal Forests ‘It’s getting worse,’ expert warns. ‘As the climate is shifting, these factors are becoming more extreme.’ It rains in Zeballos. A lot. The village, perched at the end of a long inlet on the west coast of Vancouver Island, is surrounded by mountains […]
The Strange Case Of Chrystia Freeland And The Failure Of The “Super Elite”
The Strange Case Of Chrystia Freeland And The Failure Of The “Super Elite” Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland has become a bit of a living parody of everything wrong with the detached technocratic neo-liberal order which has driven the world through 50 years of post-industrial decay. Now, two years into the Trump presidency, and five […]
