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A closer look at the most recent chapter in U.S. President Donald Trump’s playbook reveals just how much his politics could have lasting impacts here in Canada.
For the first time in the history of Quebec, the provincial government has no senior ministers and only two elected representatives from the island of Montreal. Will Dubitsky examines divisions emerging over proposals by the Coalition Avenir Québec government, notably a law banning certain public officials from wearing religious symbols.
Amid all the talk of data sharing and citizen empowerment at a global summit in Ottawa, there was no mention that Canada is home to one of the most opaque, secretive rule-making bodies in the world: the International Civil Aviation Authority.
Taken as a whole, this project would thus further alter the terrestrial and marine ecosystems on which life on Earth depends, even as UN-mandated experts have recently confirmed an "unprecedented" and accelerating rate of extinction of species, thus eroding "the very foundations of our economies, our livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life around the world."
Clearcutting B.C.’s spectacular, globally rare old-growth forests was never a smart idea. Destroying the last of them in the midst of a climate and biodiversity emergency is extreme.
Among the worst offenders is Japan, this year’s G20 host, which continues to spend billions of dollars subsidizing the coal industry each year, tipping the scales in favour of dirty and outdated energy.
For too long, the conversation about the transition to clean energy has focused mainly on the energy itself. But, in the past few years, there’s been more talk about the need for a transition that puts workers first.
