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How Rethinking Affordable Homes Connects with the Climate Fight
How Rethinking Affordable Homes Connects with the Climate Fight First in a five-part series exploring the case for a Green New Deal for Housing. Experts in Canada and beyond see overlapping solutions to two crises: housing affordability and climate change. This series talks to more than 20 of them. Illustration for The Tyee by Nora Kelly. Earlier […]
The Positive Power of Emergencies
The Positive Power of Emergencies Seth Klein discusses his new book on tackling the climate crisis like we’ve fought wars — and now the pandemic. Called to the new fight. ‘What seemed politically impossible… can be quickly embraced,’ says Seth Klein, author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, which will be published […]
Press Groups Slam Deporting of Danish Journalist Covering Pipeline Fight
Press Groups Slam Deporting of Danish Journalist Covering Pipeline Fight ‘Sobering.’ Foreign and Canadian organizations criticize blocked entry to Kristian Lindhart at YVR. Kristian Lindhart, who works for Denmark’s version of the CBC, wrongly assumed he’d be allowed to continue his ongoing coverage of Indigenous resistance to the TMX pipeline because BC deems journalism an […]
A Danish Journalist Arrived to Cover the TMX Pipeline. The Guard at YVR Decided to Deport Him
A Danish Journalist Arrived to Cover the TMX Pipeline. The Guard at YVR Decided to Deport Him Kristian Lindhardt says Canada’s laws stifle press freedom afforded ‘during every crisis.’ Danish documentary-maker Kristian Lindhardt works with his country’s version of the CBC and has visited BC many times working on his documentary about the the Tsleil […]
Has Suncor Seen the Climate Crisis Coming for 61 Years?
Has Suncor Seen the Climate Crisis Coming for 61 Years? A US lawsuit wants the oilsands producer to pay for global warming havoc. Did Canada’s largest oil producer learn about climate change as early as 1959, develop a massive bitumen industry in northern Alberta knowing the atmospheric damage it would cause, and then take part […]
This Energy Analyst Says the Oil Sands Are ‘Done’
This Energy Analyst Says the Oil Sands Are ‘Done’ COVID-19 is making many bearish about bitumen. Deborah Lawrence’s past pessimism has proven unpopular, and correct. Deborah Lawrence used to be a stockbroker with Merrill Lynch. Over the past decade, the independent economic analyst has developed a reputation for telling oil investors what they don’t want […]
Jason Kenney’s Other Pipeline War Is with Michigan
Jason Kenney’s Other Pipeline War Is with Michigan Locals say Enbridge’s aging Line 5 is a disaster waiting to happen and Alberta’s premier should butt out. Locals urging the aging pipeline be closed down fear it could imperil drinking water for tens of millions of people. Some wonder why Kenney, who has claimed Alberta is […]
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 […]
Oilsands Firms ‘Morally Responsible’ for Deaths and Destruction from Climate Disasters
Oilsands Firms ‘Morally Responsible’ for Deaths and Destruction from Climate Disasters Greenpeace’s Yeb Saño explains what a Philippines human rights investigation means for the fossil fuel industry in Canada. Four years ago, the Philippines Commission on Human Rights began posing an incendiary question. Should 47 of the planet’s most polluting companies have to answer legally for the […]
Canadian Oilsands Firm Denied Its Own Science On Climate Change
Canadian Oilsands Firm Denied Its Own Science On Climate Change While Imperial Oil was calling the link between fossil fuels and global warming an ‘unproven hypothesis,’ internal reports had confirmed the connection. Oilsands giant Imperial Oil continued to call the link between fossil fuels and global temperature rise an “unproven hypothesis” decades after its own […]
Enviros Tools of Russians? The Weird Conspiracy Theory Firing up Kenney’s Inquiry
Enviros Tools of Russians? The Weird Conspiracy Theory Firing up Kenney’s Inquiry SPECIAL REPORT: Alberta’s ‘anti-energy’ probe makes a debunked US report its must-read. Russian Attempts to Influence U.S. Domestic Energy Markets by Exploiting Social Media was produced by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology, which at the time was led […]
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 […]
‘Climate Crisis’ Open Letter to Media: Who’s Responded (So Far)
‘Climate Crisis’ Open Letter to Media: Who’s Responded (So Far) Five-point plan on Tyee finds allies in CWA union and top US journos. Now the responses are rolling in, some from beyond Canada’s borders. Here’s how Holman came to write the widely shared letter and what it’s helping to trigger. As record wildfires raged out […]
On Climate, Does Trudeau’s Canada Play Hero or Villain?
On Climate, Does Trudeau’s Canada Play Hero or Villain? The Tyee asked global experts, and got some surprising answers. How does Canada rate in fighting climate change? Better than most countries, especially ones where fossil fuels drive politics. Terribly for the world, because if every country copied Canada, that would ensure climate catastrophe. That’s the […]
