PLANET in PERIL - WHERE SCIENCE GETS RESPECT. DENIED HER NATURAL INSTINCTS T0 ROOT & FORAGE, THIS YOUNG SOW GOES MAD, BITING THE STEEL BARS THAT CONFINE HER.
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| A field of certified organic potatoes in Manitoba. A PinP photo. |
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Dismantling regulatory capacity and privatizing state infrastructure leads to disaster. Story here.
The Tyee
Canada's National Observer
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| Danielle with her "besties," Donald and Kevin. |
Danielle Smith's government is exempting celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary's massive Wonder Valley data centre near Grand Prairie, AB, from a provincial environmental assessment, Canada's National Observer has learned. Story here.
Canada’s National Observer
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
“I thought I’d spend my entire career working at this wonderful place. But I never expected that science itself would come under attack, simply because it—like journalism, history, and even the best kind of art—is a way of seeking the truth. I’m leaving because I want to tell the truth.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
A publlic domain photo.
Canada's National Observer
Prime Minister Mark Carney's push for new fossil fuel infrastructure and rollback of climate policies could expose Ottawa to legal battles on several fronts, legal experts warn.. Story here.
Canada's National Observer
A major carbon bomb sits atop Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first tranche of major projects, sparking backlash from environmental and Indigenous communities who say that doubling down on liquified natural gas is placing a dangerous bet on Canada’s future. Story here.
If our current crop of political leaders at all levels (Liz May excepted), is intentionally setting out to poke the gods of climate calamity with a stick - it couldn’t be doing a better job! In a grotesque display of either “eco-stupidity” or “climate illiteracy,” it’s gleefully setting out to turn (or burn) Canada into “an energy superpower!” That’s eerily identical to the goal uttered by Stephen “climate change is a Socialist plot” Harper more than a decade ago. And it’s all under the phoney guise of “nation-building.” These poor sods either don’t know, or care, that you can’t gain an upper hand on the climate beast by unleashing evermore greenhouse emissions into our air. And the main opposition voice federally, isn’t speaking out AGAINST these abominations, but going to bat for the gasoline car instead. As for our newly-minted PM, who’s shown loudly and clearly on the public stage he understands that climate change is "an existential threat," must not be acting out of ignorance or stupidity now, but rather with downright malice aforethought. When you think about it, what could go wrong when we elect a world banker as our leader? Perhaps the saying, “at least the Tories stab you from the front,” is true, after all.) In any case, if any of them love their children, they have an odd way of showing it.
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Why does Alberta yearn for the coal mines?
Canada's National Observer
This is how corporate bullies get their way. Alberta’s energy regulator last week approved coal exploration plans by Australian-based Northback Holdings on Grassy Mountain in the Crowsnest Pass region. The approval came after a consortium of powerful coal mining companies sued the Alberta government for more than $15 billion over losses they claim were incurred when the province imposed a mining moratorium in the area. Northback is not part of the joint lawsuit, but it too filed a claim against the Alberta government that will be heard separately. Story here.
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
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With the current drop in the price of oil, now is an ideal moment to scale back subsidies with minimal disruption to households and industries. Story here.
The Globe and Mail
Did Danielle Smith lobby the U.S. to help Pierre Poilievre? Sure looks like it. Story here.
The Investigative Journalism Foundation Poilievre has met with such groups at multiple fundraising events in the past two years. Story here.
How sad it must be - believing that scientists, scholars, historians,
economists and journalists have devoted their entire lives to
deceiving you - while a lying, racist, misogynistic, perverted
traitor is your only beacon of truth and honesty.
(Neil deGrasse Tyson, paraphrased.)
The BBC A mangrove swamp in Indonesia. Photo by Adnankasogi. The world's coastal mangrove forests, which protect millions of people from...
