Canada

29/10/20
Author: 
Patricia Lane
Victoria Coun. Sharmarke Dubow gives Maasai visitors a tour of city hall. Photo submitted by Sharmarke Dubow

October 29th 2020

As part of a series highlighting the work of young people in addressing the climate crisis, writer Patricia Lane interviews Victoria Coun. Sharmarke Dubow.

The 1990s were personally tough for me. I spent the decade immersed in action based on climate catastrophe science, trying, and by all accounts failing, to stem the tide. Hardest of all, death and dementia came to my family.

29/10/20
Author: 
Tzeporah Berman
Tzeporah Berman

October 28th 2020

I am old enough to remember when, in the 1970s, upon entering a city almost anywhere in the world, you would see a sign that said: “Nuclear-free city.”

At the time, the greatest and most likely threat to humanity was nuclear weapons. Today, the World Economic Forum identifies the greatest and most likely threat to humanity to be our failure to mitigate climate change.

28/10/20
Author: 
Don Pittis
Mark Carney

[This article might bring some comfort if it put a timeline on WHEN such risks could be quantified and then outlined how exactly that process would lead to creating a socially just and environmentally sane transition. Will knowing the investment risks make capitalists decide to do this? Will it create effective regulatory enforcement to compel capitalists to do this? Will it do anything at all that will begin the required transition SOON ENOUGH?

27/10/20
Author: 
Bianca Mugyenyi
Bolivia: Left’s overwhelming win a sharp rebuke to Canadian foreign policy

OCTOBER 23, 2020

It's time to re-evaluate Ottawa’s pro-U.S. stance on Latin America

In a victory for Indigenous people, Bolivians voted overwhelmingly for the MÁS party last week.

Sunday’s result is a clear rejection of Canadian foreign policy in Bolivia and the region, and this moment should spur a reevaluation of Ottawa’s pro-U.S. stance in the hemisphere, notably its brazen contribution to the efforts underway to overthrow Venezuela’s government.

24/10/20
Author: 
Christopher Curtis
Tire fire - Failed arrest attempt leads to police retreat, barricades of burning tires - Christopher Curtis

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Failed arrest attempt leads to police retreat, barricades of burning tires

SIX NATIONS, Ont. — An argument between police and land defenders erupted in violence Thursday when officers tried to arrest someone outside a protest camp on Haudenosaunee territory.

Witnesses say police fired at least six rubber bullets and tasered a young man after someone threw a rock at their cruiser. In the ensuing chaos, Ontario Provincial Police fell back to a reinforced position about 500 metres from the camp’s back entrance.

23/10/20
Author: 
Yves Engler
Evo Morales - warning finger

October 22, 2020

Massive support for Bolivia’s Movimiento al Socialismo at the polls is a rejection of last year’s Canadian-backed coup against Evo Morales. The vote was also a blow to Trudeau’s policy of seeking to overthrow left-wing governments in the region.

On Sunday Morales’ former finance minister, Luis Acre, won 55% of the vote for president. His MAS party also took a large majority in the Congress.

21/10/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
A photo posted to the Secwepemc Virtual Unity Camp Facebook page shows RCMP officers making an arrest last week near the drill site of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Facebook / Secwepemc Virtual Unity Camp

October 21st 2020

The RCMP's failure to protect Mi'kmaq fishers from intimidation, assault and destruction in Nova Scotia demonstrates how the Canadian state is all too ready to permit or perpetrate violence against Indigenous Peoples, say First Nations groups and B.C. politicians.

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