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White-supremacist terrorism is every bit the ideological twin to ISIS jihadist terrorism. It can radicalize and inspire the same kind of narrow-minded hate, death and destruction – perhaps even more so, because it continues to benefit from the denial of people who refuse to see it as the global threat that it is.
On the eighth anniversary of the start of Syria's civil war, the UN Refugee Agency's Jean-Nicolas Beuze worries if we are dedicating enough attention or resources to helping Syrians.
There is a sense of a diagnosis being made, en masse. The children of the world have shunned the system created by adults.... They are looking into each other’s eyes, confirming that climate change is an existential threat to their health and well-being, and that their elders have failed to protect them.
In the years to come, our children and grandchildren will ask us how our generation’s leaders could be so short-sighted, so selfish, as to spout the rhetoric of climate leadership, reconciliation, and even economic prosperity to the public, knowing full well that they were condemning future generations to a planet with crumbling life support systems.
We have entered an era in which children and young people are standing up and stating truths that many of their adult contemporaries either ignore or flatly deny.
“Faith leaders have been completely invisible, as far as I can tell, in the public debate in Ontario about how to fight climate change in general, and about carbon pricing in particular,” says Dianne Saxe
Amid the din of the details, a critical fact has been buried: the SNC-Lavalin affair is business as usual in Canada. Pro-business policies have long been the norm. It just happens to be that this time, Canadians get to see behind the curtain.
Consider these few facts. The present ‘sky is falling’ rhetoric, absent applying a critical analysis lens, would have people believing that Alberta oil production has been halted. However, production levels (even with the slowdown) are approximately 3.3 million barrels a day, writes Steven Sanderson.
