Saturday Afternoon Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Scott Santens rightly notes that even if every single person without a job was willing to accept absolutely anything, we have no reason…
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From The Heartland
When moral imperatives and climate change denial meet head on, you know who feels they occupy the higher ground when The Heartland Institute is involved. The following video captures their…
The Boom With the Bomb Train Boom
CBC is a funny beast now. Along with their story parroting what the latest Canadian Energy Research Initiative report says, is RBC/tarsands shill Amanda Lang staring at you from the…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Michael Hiltzig examines the evidence showing that austerity serves as a major obstacle to economic growth. And Ian Hussey argues that Alberta…
Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – The Ottawa Citizen rightly slams Stephen Harper for failing to take climate change and energy policy seriously, while Mel Hurting points out Harper’s…
G7 false commitments won’t help us tackle 7-million air pollution deaths
During the hour that it took the world’s elite G7 politicians discussing climate change to wander through an enchanting meadow of flowers in Germany’s Bavarian Alps earlier this week, at…
G7 false commitments won’t help us tackle 7-million air pollution deaths
During the hour that it took the world’s elite G7 politicians discussing climate change to wander through an enchanting meadow of flowers in Germany’s Bavarian Alps earlier this week, at…
Greetings from Bonn, on Loss and Damages Day
Wednesday, June 10, 2015 Developing country negotiators at the UN Climate Conference in Bonn, supported by environmental organizations, have declared today to be Loss and Damages Day – focusing on…
The Pope Just Doesn’t Know His Place
At least. that’s what I infer from the blather of Catholic League President Bill Donohue: No doubt, obeisance to the corporate agenda is what Donahue and his ilk expect from…
On end dates
There’s no doubt that Stephen Harper characteristically did everything in his power to put off any meaningful international action on climate change. But it’s worth noting that his procrastination only…
The Day Stephen Harper Helped Destroy the Planet
I hate to admit it, but it seems I was tragically wrong. Stephen Harper did play a major role at the G7 summit after all.He took a reasonable proposal to…
Gravel pit case puts the spotlight on BC’s environmental assessment laws
Monday, June 8, 2015 Talia McKenzie first found out that she was going to be living next to a gravel pit the day she picked up the keys to her…
Sunday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – The World Bank’s latest World Development Report discusses how readily-avoidable scarcity in severely limit individual development. Melissa Kearney and Philip Levine write…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Peter Poschen argues that the goals of protecting our climate and ensuring the availability of good jobs isn’t an either-or proposition: (C)limate change…
What does an NDP Alberta mean for Climate, BC Pipeline campaigns?
Friday, June 5, 2015 Last month’s dramatic NDP win in Alberta led to much speculation (at least among those interested in such issues) as to what this means for the…
A Response From The Mound Of Sound
The Mound of Sound, who knows a great deal about the topic, offered the following response to my post on our hubris and our folly. Thanks for posting that video,…
Alberta Getting a Climate Change Plan?
If they enact what is known to be good policy, but the previous government was afraid to do, that’d be a start anyway. I found it interesting that the newspaper…
Climate Justice and the Good Life, for Everyone
In our Climate Justice Project, our research has stressed structural changes and collective action to lower carbon footprints rather than individual behavioural change. The ability of many actors to respond…
Canada’s GHG emissions cost the world 8,800 lives and $15.4 Billion every year
Monday, June 1, 2015 Canadian politicians may argue that our greenhouse gas emissions are small, but because the global harm that the world is already suffering from climate change is…