Canada
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BuildingsCanadaCitiesClimate Action/"Blockadia"First PeoplesFood SecurityGeneral RenewablesHuman Rights & MigrationJobsPost-Carbon TransitionTransit
Pact for a Green New Deal Holds 150 Town Halls, Reaches 7,000 Canadians in Two Months
wo months after a diverse collection of Indigenous, civil society, environmental, and labour groups launched the Pact for a Green New Deal in Canada, ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPost-Carbon Transition
Hackett: Claims of Low-Carbon ‘Hypocrisy’ Distract from Collective Action, Policy Solutions
It may give the “ethical geniuses” who support fossil fuels a momentary boost to claim hypocrisy when low-carbon advocates drive to protests or fly ... -
CanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Culture, Curiosities, & HumourMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionOceansOil & GasPetrochemicals & PlasticsPost-Carbon TransitionSupply Chains & Consumption
Documentary Short Declares Plastic Recycling ‘Like a Band-Aid on Gangrene’
“Recycling is Like a Band-Aid on Gangrene” is the title of Memorial University geographer Max Liboiron’s recent documentary short celebrating her research into microplastics ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaClimate Action/"Blockadia"Energy PoliticsFirst PeoplesHot SpotsLegal & RegulatoryMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPipelines/Rail TransportSub-National GovernmentsTar Sands/Oil Sands
Alberta Launches $2.5-Million ‘Show Trial’ Against Tar Sands/Oil Sands Opponents
Albertans will shell out C$2.5 million in hard-earned tax dollars over the next year for Jason Kenney’s provincial inquiry into the supposed “foreign-funded special ... -
Montreal Boosts Heat Relief for At-Risk Populations While Toronto Cuts Back
Eastern Canada’s two biggest cities have unveiled contrasting approaches as the summer heat wave season looms: while Montreal is making a renewed effort to ... -
Physical, Psychological Stress of Annual Wildfires Has Westerners Moving East
Made physically and psychologically ill by choking smoke from wildfires that grow ever more commonplace as the climate crisis escalates, more and more western ... -
Bitumen BubbleCanadaCanada's Pipeline-Climate Policy ParadoxCarbon Levels & MeasurementClimate Policy/Meetings/NegotiationsEnergy PoliticsMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionPipelines/Rail TransportPost-Carbon TransitionTar Sands/Oil Sands
Harrison: Building a Pipeline is Not a Climate Plan
The federal government’s decision to buy out, then re-approve the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline expansion means Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “has made a choice ... -
Fossil-Friendly Canadian Export Agency Cited for Poor Disclosure, Environmental and Human Rights Violations
A federal export credit agency with a history of massively supporting fossil industry exports over clean technology is taking fire for failing to consider ... -
CanadaClimate DenialHealth & SafetyIce Loss & Sea Level RiseMedia, Messaging, & Public OpinionSub-National Governments
Parks Canada Tries to Duck Climate Reality After Warming Threatens Alberta Historic Site
When a near century-old alpine hut high in the Rockies was precipitously threatened by thawing permafrost last August, Parks Canada struggled with just how ... -
CanadaCitiesElectricity GridEnergy PoliticsFinance & InvestmentOff-GridPost-Carbon TransitionSolarSub-National Governments
Alberta Towns, Utility Embrace Solar as ‘the Business of the Future’
Undaunted by a premier avowedly hostile to renewable energy, communities across Alberta are embracing solar electricity as good business, with the small southern town ... -
Ottawa-Area Solar Farm Uses Sheep for Herbicide-Free Weed Control
Two years after a family of Ottawa Valley sheep farmers partnered with French-owned EDF Renewables on a “vegetation abatement” pilot, their herd has grown, ...
