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01/03/22
Author: 
Jeremy Hainsworth
Protesters gather outside the courthouse on Feb. 14, 2022.Jeremy Hainsworth

Feb 14, 2022

'The destruction of Mother Earth must stop,' one of the women said in court during sentencing.

Three women have gone to jail for 14 days after pleading guilty to criminal contempt of court for breaching a court injunction aimed at preventing disruption of work at the Burnaby Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project (TMX). 

28/02/22
Author: 
Fiona Harvey 
Wildfires tearing through a forest in the Chefchaouen region of northern Morocco. Photograph: Fadel Senna/AFP/Getty Images
28 Feb 2022 

Report says human actions are causing dangerous disruption, and window to secure a liveable future is closing

27/02/22
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Georia Strait Alliance
Image by Jennie Wyatt.

Feb. 25, 2022

Yesterday, the Province of B.C. released the long-awaited new Environmental Assessment conditions for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. In response, Georgia Strait Alliance’s Energy Campaigner Andrew Radzik said:

24/02/22
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Canadian Association of Journalists
The Code of Silence Awards are presented annually by the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), the Centre for Free Expression at Ryerson University (CFE), and the Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE). The intent of the awards is to call public attention to government or publicly-funded agencies that work hard to hide information to which the public has a right to under access to information legislation. (CNW Group/Canadian Association of Journalists)

TORONTO, Feb. 22, 2022 /CNW/ - For its persistent efforts to impede the free flow of information to the public, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been selected as the 2021 recipient of the Code of Silence Award for Outstanding Achievement in Government Secrecy in the law enforcement category.

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24/02/22
Author: 
Douglas Todd
Housing developers try to make sure they don’t sacrifice future financial returns by flooding the market with housing during just one period, says housing professor Cameron Murray. PHOTO BY MARK VAN MANEN /PNG

Feb 23, 2022

A retired developer says the goal of the property industry is to complete new housing supply when it can maximize profits.

“The real-estate development business is very much about market timing,” said Arny Wise, who spent his career planning and developing scores of housing projects in Toronto and Vancouver.

 

23/02/22
Author: 
Wenonah Hauter
Smoke stacks - GETTY IMAGES

Feb. 14, 2022

The industry is wildly fudging the numbers to make itself look like a major job creator. We shouldn’t be fooled.

For years now, any discussion about climate action or the need to move off fossil fuels has run headlong into a familiar quandary: The industries fueling the climate crisis create good jobs, often in areas of the country where finding work that can support a family is incredibly difficult. 

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