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Instead of pushing for climate action to protect the Amazon, Canada is moving ahead with a free trade agreement with Brazil that threatens to pour gasoline on the blaze, writes Brandon Wei.
Despite the rapidly escalating need to protect B.C.'s ecological communities, the tools granted to the Islands Trust to protect them are a fraction of what has been granted to the province's municipalities.
Canada is clearly playing an important role, not as a political powerhouse, but as a genuine contributor to the sense of progress, made all the more significant given our substantial oil production and export economy, writes Bruce Lourie.
Conservatives in Canada continue to place the rights of people who haven't taken a COVID-19 vaccine over their responsibilities to everyone else, including health-care workers.
The amazing thing is that if cut to the core message, Al Gore and Greta Thunberg are pretty much saying the same thing at the UN climate conference: The hour is late and we are very far from where we need to be, writes Kairn Carrington.
