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Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxClimate Action/"Blockadia"DemographicsEnergy PoliticsHuman Rights & MigrationLegal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail Transport
Ottawa Could Face Youth Charter Challenge After Approving Trans Mountain Expansion
With its decision yesterday to re-approve the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, the Trudeau government could find itself face to face with a constitutional challenge ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourDemographicsEnergy PoliticsFirst PeoplesLegal & RegulatoryPipelines/Rail TransportShale & FrackingSub-National Governments
Negotiations Seek ‘Peaceful Solution’ at Unist’ot’en After RCMP Arrest 14 Blocking Coastal GasLink Pipeline
Negotiations were under way between RCMP and hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en Nation Tuesday night, aimed at finding a “peaceful solution” to a standoff ... -
AsiaChinaDemographicsHealth & SafetyHuman Rights & MigrationIndiaInternational Agencies & StudiesPost-Carbon Transition
Poorest, Most Marginalized ‘Bear the Brunt’ as Air Pollution Kills Eight Million Per Year
Nine out of every 10 people on the planet are now breathing polluted air, and eight million die each year of pollution-related disease, even ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"DemographicsEnergy PoliticsOil & GasPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National Governments
Nagata Paints Trudeau’s Kinder Morgan Nightmare—With a Warning
One of British Columbia’s sharpest voices on democracy and the environment has drawn the nightmare scenario facing the Liberal Party of Canada in the ... -
AfricaArctic & AntarcticaCanadaChinaClimate Impacts & AdaptationDemographicsEuropeFood SecurityIndiaInternationalInternational Security & WarSmall Island StatesUnited States
Visualization Shows the Earth at Plus Four Degrees
While major industries track an accelerating shift toward decarbonization, and climate researchers warn about a narrowing carbon budget, Big Think is out with a ... -
Yes To Birth Control—But Keep It “Natural”: Cardinal
Cardinal Peter Turkson, who reportedly advised Pope Francis on his widely applauded Encyclical on Climate Change, has advocated that “birth control” can be part ... -
CanadaClimate & SocietyClimate Impacts & AdaptationClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsDemographicsEnergy PoliticsJurisdictionsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPost-Carbon TransitionUnited States
Most Americans Support Climate Policies, Canadians Not So Much
According to a New York Times/CBS News Poll, 66% of Americans say the U.S. should join a binding international agreement to limit greenhouse gas ... -
Climate & SocietyClimate DenialDemographicsEnergy PoliticsHuman Rights & MigrationLegal & Regulatory
Time to Audit the Auditors, Trudeau Declares
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has directed Canada’s new Minister of National Revenue, Diane Lebouthillier, to “cease hounding environmental charities,” as columnist Mitchell Anderson put ...
