Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Peter Gowan and Thomas Hanna write about the urgent need to free people from the market forces which currently trap them in…
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"how dare you": thank you, greta thunberg and #climatestrikers
Also: Why is Greta Thunberg so triggering for certain men, Jennifer O’Connell, Irish TimesCanada’s #climatestrike day is Friday, September 27.
“How dare you!”
“This is all wrong. I shouldn’t be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope?…
Noam Chomsky and Robert Pollin: If We Want a Future, Green New Deal Is Key
Noam Chomsky speaks about humanity’s prospects for survival in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States on 13 April 2017. Robert Pollin stands at his side. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Climate change is…
Saturday Morning Links
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – The Initiative on Global Markets finds substantial agreement among economists that inequality poses a threat to democracy. And Paul Krugman writes about the…
Global Climate Strike in Regina
The #ClimateStrike was in Regina again this morning, and hundreds of people marched from the RSM to the Legislature to show their displeasure with the government for doing nothing to…
Global Climate Strike Starts Strong
Archie Graham, 15, and his mates were supposed to be in school today: “What’s the point in going to school if we can’t use that knowledge in future because there…
SaskPower Cancels Solar Power in Saskatchewan
SaskPower has yet to build a mere Megawatt of solarpower, but has now canceled the ability of solar installers to accept new work in the province. They went way farther…
SaskPower Cutting Solar Funding Instead of Cheques
Despite a ticking clock to cut emissions drastically, SaskPower is opting to continue to burn low grade coal instead of support faster adoption of solar power. They’re cutting a successful…
‘NO FUTURE, NO CHILDREN’ UNTIL GOVERNMENTS ADDRESS CLIMATE CRISIS, CANADIAN YOUTH DECLARE
Climate Strike Canada/Facebook A group of more than 450 youth, most of them Canadian, are declaring they won’t have children until they see the federal government taking sufficient action…
We may have a livable planet, or we may have unlimited growth. We cannot have both.
Photo by Vincent Yu/AP I could tell you that the global population in 1955, the year my father was born, was 2.7 billion people. I could tell you that that…
Butterflies are Back Thanks to Small Gardens
If you planted native species in your garden then you deserve a pat on the shoulder. Your efforts have helped the butterflies return from dangerously low population levels. In Toronto…
Tuesday Morning Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ann Pettifor discusses how a Green New Deal will pay for itself while making use of readily available sources of financing. And…
How the Green Party Came to Support Dumping Raw Sewage into the Ocean.
Doing Politics Differently? By Mark Christopher Warrior In 2012 the “Harper Government” announced it was prepared to fund one third of the cost of building Victoria’s first sewage plant and…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Kerri Breen reports on the public’s understandable frustration with Canada’s political system. Don Martin offers a prime example as to why that’s…
When Goliath Thinks He’s David
Ms Soapbox and her daughter were admiring the statues in the Borghese Gallery in Rome when Amnesty International published an open letter expressing its concern that Mr Kenney’s decision to…
In the fight against eco-fascism, we need to politicize nature
The Camp Fire burns near Oroville, Calif, Nov. 11, 2018. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images As the devastating effects of the climate crisis continue to be felt around the globe…
There’s Only One Antidote for Climate Despair—Climate Revolt
Climate activists block the road junction at Oxford Circus in central London on April 18th, 2019, during an environmental protest by the Extinction Rebellion group. Photo: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images. The…
Why I support David Nickarz for MLA in Wolseley
Winnipeg, Sept. 2, 2019 – (l-r) Paul Graham and David Nickarz at the annual Labour Day March. Photo: David Nickarz Green Party of Canada leader Elizabeth May has said that…
Ecosocialism and a Just Transition
The idea of a “just transition” is appearing everywhere these days, most notably in the preamble of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, which refers to the need to take “into…