Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Ryan Meili examines why Craig Alexander of the TD Bank is calling for a move toward greater income equality in Canada: The OECD…
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The Newsroom: On Journalism, the Environment, and Sexism
I just finished watching the final season of The Newsroom as it appears catching up on shows is becoming a personal tradition on the first day of any holiday. It…
Even Capitalists Are Starting to See the Zombies in the Tarsands!
What kind of oil investments become zombies with cheap oil? Extracting and burning oil, gas and coal is a bad move. Capitalists, zombies themselves seeking to maximize shareholder wealth at…
Historic dam latest line of defence against invasive Asian carp
Carp over Barge. (Photo: Dan O’Keefe, Michigan Sea Grant) THE NEXT LINE OF DEFENCE against keeping invasive Asian carp out of the Great Lakes will come at an 81-year-old lock…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Thomas Walkom discusses why politicians have thus far failed to take any meaningful action on climate change. But it’s also worth noting that…
Groups call on BC and Science World to end LNG promotion
Advocacy groups and concerned citizens have signed an open letter demanding that the British Columbia government and Science World cancel their province-wide community seminars promoting the liquefied natural gas (LNG)…
Leehi Yona: Canadians’ best interests “certainly not represented” at COP20
Canada’s best interests weren’t represented at the recent COP20 climate conference in Peru, argues Leehi Yona, a Canadian youth delegate recently named one of Canada’s top environmentalist under 25. The…
SaskPower Says Bigger Is Better, Even Losses? #PowerToGrow
As a followup to the Star Phoenix’s article on the hugely expensive, and (public) money losing CCS plant at Estevan, comes word of further cost overruns. The overruns, in the…
Bolivia to host 2015 meeting of social movements to fight climate change
Photo by Pete Souza Meeting in Havana December 14, the 13th summit of ALBA leaders endorsed a Bolivian proposal to host an international assembly of social movements in 2015 to…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Carter Price offers another look at how inequality damages economic development. And the Broadbent Institute examines the wealth gap in Canada –…
Condensed version of the Wynne, Prentice Meeting
Filed under: Cartoons (Single Panel), Environment, Making fun of Conservatives, Making fun of Liberals
Loopholes threaten Ontario Greenbelt
The Greenbelt Alliance wants better protection for the ecologically sensitive area, which remains at risk from sprawl, mega-highways and contaminated soil. Map of Greenbelt and other protected lands in Southern…
On unjust cause
Shorter Peter Kent, Stephen Harper Talking Point Dispenser Level Infinity: The Dear Leader fired me for making some effort to do a job with the work “environment” in the title,…
Taking on capital in an age of climate change
Photo by Senior Airman Larry E. Reid Jr., U.S. Air Force I was privileged recently to be able to participate in the ‘Fossil Free Convergence’ in Montreal, Nov. 8-9. The…
Alberta Government Begins to Sunset Oil Production
Edmonton’s Eastgate: What are those cylinders in the background? This week, as an early Christmas present to the province, the world and future generations, the Alberta government has begun the…
Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Aditya Chakrabortty contrasts the myth of the free market against the reality that massive amounts of public money and other privileges are shoveled…
Set Walmart and Target Afloat, Please
Monty Python was onto something with their sailing financial pirates, I think. “Over 260,000 tons of plastic waste in oceans, study shows“ Why buying dollar store crap will come back…
Harper’s “crazy” Comments
So, @PMHarper, if oil/gas regulations don’t work at $65 a barrel, at what price are they “uncrazy”? $80? $100? — David Akin (@davidakin) December 9, 2014 Here’s an impressive takedown…
Harper Breaks Promise To Regulate Oil And Gas Emissions
In Parliament today, PM Stephen Harper said “it would be crazy economic policy” to regulate the Canadian oil and gas industry’s greenhouse gas emissions. The post Harper Breaks Promise To…
Video: Coalition challenges NEB to consider the climate impacts of the proposed Energy East Pipeline
Map of Proposed Energy East Pipeline route. Source: National Energy Board Energy East Pipelines, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of TransCanada Oil Pipelines (Canada), has applied to build the Energy…