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Call for companies to ‘clean up their mess’ as Athabasca oil sands emissions vastly exceed industry-reported levels
The Canadian tar sands are a massive site of oil extraction in Alberta. Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Alamy
Toxic emissions from the Canadian tar sands – already one of the (…)
Thousands of marchers braved frigid temperatures and took to the streets of Montréal, Quebec on Saturday, December 10, 2022 in an Indigenous-led march outside the COP 15 Conference on Biodiversity.
They came to demand strong agreements to protect land, water and all who depend on them for (…)
Atlantic Canada has been left reeling from the impacts of one of the largest and most dangerous ocean storms to ever hit the region. Hurricane Fiona made landfall as a powerful post-tropical storm on Saturday along the eastern shore of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and (…)
In their electoral platform for the fall election, Québec solidaire, which has 10 MPs out of 125 in Quebec’s parliament, is proposing to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gases (GHGs) of 55 to 65% by 2030. But as the awareness of the climate catastrophe is becoming widespread, so is the (…)
An emerging anti-capitalism which heralds the convergence of struggles
The televised English debate during the federal elections (September 9, 2021) began with the controversial question to Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet: “You denied that Quebec has problems with racism yet you (…)
Newly formed ‘Révolution écosocialiste’ organization proposes a green, ecosocialist and democratic program for building a mass movement in the 21st century
Introduction
Ecosocialist activists in Québec have formed a new organization, Révolution écosocialiste (RE). Climate & Capitalism (…)
A white GMC Sierra rolled down an assembly line in Oshawa, Ontario on December 18, 2019.
It was an event that had happened countless times before and encouraged a boycott of Mexican-made GM vehicles [
On September 27, workers across the world went out on strike in the largest global climate strike in history, walking out of their classrooms and workplaces to protest government inaction on climate change. This comes following the September 20 ‘School Strike for Climate’, which saw millions of (…)
The federal government’s decision on the dirty energy project came just a day after the House of Commons voted to declare a climate emergency
“Canada deserves a Green New Deal, not more fossil fuel projects.”
That’s how many climate campaigners—including Clayton Thomas-Muller of (…)
In a unanimous decision, the federal court of appeal said the government failed to consider the concerns of some First Nations
A Canadian court has overturned Ottawa’s approval of a hotly-contested pipeline project – throwing plans to nearly triple the flow of Alberta’s landlocked bitumen to (…)
Don’t let the Fort Mac fire turn into feel-good boosterism for the extractive industry. They knew this was coming.
It’s been inescapable: the emotion that rises each time another story crosses the screen about the wildfires in Alberta is enough to occupy any free, thinking part of a brain and (…)
“The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has acknowledged shocking details about the violence of Canada’s near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar on the country’s present. And Canada’s record on climate change is a crime against humanity’s future.” —The Leap Manifesto
Five (…)
THE LEAP MANIFESTO:
We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent memory.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has acknowledged shocking details about the violence of Canada’s near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar on the country’s present. (…)
In a wide swath of red, thousands upon thousands of people hit the streets in quiet Quebec City last Saturday with a cacophony of chants, drums and quiet conversations snaking through the tiny ancient streets of the old city emerging into a park. There organizers distributed large, square red (…)
Safety Board final report on Lac Mégantic disaster is sharply critical of railway regulation, but federal gov’t unmoved
Canada’s Transportation Safety Board issued a 181-page report on August 19 detailing the breakdown in application and enforcement of federal rail safety regulations that (…)
Protests, marches and direct actions are vitally important, but to win our goals we need to build mass, democratic political organizations.
On July 14 a dozen or so activists staged an occupation of a worksite in Toronto associated with Enbridge’s Line 9, an oil pipeline that runs across the (…)
August 27, 2013–As the toxic oil from the July 6 oil train disaster in Lac Mégantic, Quebec seeps deeper into the town center’s soil and disperses into waterways, and as town residents slowly reestablish their shattered lives, the corporate interests that caused the disaster and have been (…)
This catastrophe is not an isolated or technical problem. It poses the need for social mobilisation aimed at ecological transition and liberation from unscrupulous big business and its accomplices in the Canadian State.
Le Réseau écosocialiste (Ecosocialist Network) was founded in Montreal in (…)
Paper based on a talk given to the Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago, June 28, 2013.
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Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has a dream. If he has his way Canada will be the new world oil superpower – a rival to Saudi Arabia. It’s a wonderful dream for Harper and (…)
The result of the May 14 election in British Columbia was a setback to progressive forces in the province and across Canada. The incumbent Liberal Party won a fourth straight term with 21.8 per cent support from eligible voters (44% of those who voted). Its principal election plank was ‘full (…)
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