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18/09/24
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Primary Author: Darryl Greer
David Eby

Website editor: Eby quote below: “And so we will continue to ensure… that the big polluters are paying their fair share.”

Sept. 17, 2024

Full Story: The Canadian Press

A re-elected NDP government would scrap British Columbia’s long-standing carbon tax and shift the burden to “big polluters” if the federal government dropped its requirement for the law, Premier David Eby said Thursday.

17/09/24
Author: 
Marc Lee
‘Free transit would be not so much a new cost to society but a reallocation of existing private spending on transportation,’ CCPA-BC senior economist Marc Lee writes. Photo via Shutterstock.

Sept. 17, 2024

A closer look at the costs and benefits of the Green Party’s recent campaign promise.

15/09/24
Author: 
Shirin Ali
Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Michael Robinson Chavez/the Washington Post via Getty Images and Getty Images Plus.

Sept. 13, 2024

“If others are not going to devote funding to operationalize or weaponize the conservative vision, then the 85 Fund needs to weigh its support much more heavily in that direction.” —Leonard Leo, billionaire conservative activist and founder of the 85 Fund, in a letter to grantees

15/09/24
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By Niccolò W. Bonifai, Nita Rudra, Rodney Ludema, and J. Bradford Jensen
A cargo ship sits off the coast of Huntington Beach waiting for access to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in Huntington Beach, California, U.S., January 3, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Blake Purchase Licensing Rights

Sept. 12, 2024

America Is Fighting the Wrong Trade War

The China Shock Is Over—and More Tariffs Will Not Help Workers

Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have profoundly different visions for the future of the United States. They wildly diverge when it comes to social issues, such as abortion. They do not agree on whether to raise or cut taxes. And they could take U.S. foreign policy in opposing directions, especially when it comes to the country’s alliance with Europe.

15/09/24
Author: 
Mo Amir
BC NDP Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon has (selectively) admitted vacancy controls tame an exploitive rental market and his ministry applied them to SROs. Photo via BC government.

Sept. 4, 2024

Our new Logic Check columnist probes the Eby government’s inconsistencies on vacancy control.

14/09/24
Author: 
Amanda Stephenson
The Bay Street financial district of Toronto is shown on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. A new report says the proportion of Canadian business leaders who worry about climate change rose dramatically this year. File photo by The Canadian Press/Doug Ives

Sept. 12, 2024

The proportion of Canadian business leaders who say they are worried about climate change jumped dramatically in 2024.

In a newly released report by Deloitte, 85 per cent of the 129 Canadian executives surveyed between May and June of this year said they "worry all or most of the time" about climate change. 

That's a sharp increase from the 59 per cent who said they worried all or most of the time in 2023. 

14/09/24
Author: 
Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report
Former president Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris shake hands before a presidential debate in Philadelphia, on September 10, 2024. Saul Loeb / AFP via Getty Images.

Sept. 12, 2024

The debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump featured a rehash of neo-liberal and imperialist talking points.

Both are committed to disastrous policies domestically and internationally.

13/09/24
Author: 
Caroline O'Donovan
An Amazon Web Services data center sits next to soccer fields in Dublin, Ohio. (Bloomberg/Getty Images)

Sept. 13, 2024

Negotiations between Big Tech and an Ohio power utility could set a national precedent as communities grapple with the energy demands of the data center boom.

A regulatory dispute in Ohio may help answer one of the toughest questions hanging over the nation’s power grid: Who will pay for the huge upgrades needed to meet soaring energy demand from the data centers powering the modern internet and artificial intelligence revolution?

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