Notices tagged with canada, page 7

Somali-Canadian journalist Hodan Nalayeh, who devoted her career to the untold stories, both positive and controversial, of Somalia and its diaspora, has been killed in a terrorist attack on a hotel in Kismayo: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/journalist-hodan-nalayeh-killed-in-somalia-hotel-attack-1.5210490

🇸🇴 🇨🇦 #news #journalism #canada #somalia 🐘

The Trans Mountain pipeline was again approved by #Canada's rubber-stamp NEB today, but the fight over it is far from finished.

We must keep fighting to prevent this unbelievable miscarriage of justice. The world is on fire, and only we can put it out. The Earth and all those who inhabit it are depending on us.

#Cdnpoli #environment #globalheating #climatecrisis

"Does approving TMX [Trans Mountain Pipeline] do anything for the Liberals?"

Spoiler alert: nope, but it does hurt their chances at another majority in October.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-votes-newsletter-issue-9-trans-mountain-pipeline-decision-1.5176066

#Cdnpoli #Canada #environment #globalheating #climatecrisis #cdnelxn

"Does approving TMX [Trans Mountain Pipeline] do anything for the Liberals?"

Spoiler alert: nope, but it does hurt their chances at another majority in October.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-votes-newsletter-issue-9-trans-mountain-pipeline-decision-1.5176066

#Cdnpoli #Canada #environment #globalheating #climatecrisis #cdnelxn

Alberta Premier Singled Out Environmentalist. Death Threats Followed.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/alberta-premier-singled-out-environmentalist_ca_5cfff3dbe4b011df123bdaa9

#environment #harassment #abpoli #alberta #canada #cdnpoli #climatecrisis #misogyny

Fantastic news. We should have all done this a long time ago.

"Canada will ban 'harmful' single-use plastics as early as 2021"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jun/10/canada-ban-single-use-plastics-bags-bottles-straws-2021

#environment #plastic #waste #wildlife #Canada #Cdnpoli

#Canada's economy keeps booming. Yet another clear sign we definitly do not need a new tar sands pipeline.

"Canada's jobless rate drops to 5.4%, lowest level in 43 years"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/may-jobs-statscan-1.5166200

#Canada #Cdnpoli #economy #employment #jobs

Wow. There is so much confusion on the carbon tax in #Canada.

Poll shows around 80% of Canadians believed they were paying more for fuel and products due to the carbon tax, in a survey taken two weeks before the tax was implemented. 🙃

https://abacusdata.ca/will-climate-change-be-a-ballot-box-question-in-2019/

#cdnpoli #environment #economy

I always assumed Andrew Coyne was a small-c conservative, status quo kind of guy, but then he writes this column.

"...where there are only two parties contesting an election, first past the post works tolerably well.

[...]

But add a third party, and a fourth, and a fifth, and the divergence from majority rule, both locally and overall, increases..."

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/andrew-coyne-we-are-trying-to-stuff-multi-party-politics-into-a-system-built-for-two

#canada

Opinion column: It's not apathy. Our system is set up to drive voters away

https://edmontonjournal.com/opinion/columnists/elise-stolte-its-not-apathy-our-system-is-set-up-to-drive-voters-away

#cdnpoli #canada #politics

Yet another reason the Trans Mountain Kinder Morgan #pipeline should not be expanded:

" if the world honours its pledge to keep global warming under 2 C, there's less than a five per cent chance that new oilsands investment — including pipelines — will be profitable over the next 30 years."

This, along with the fact that it would contributes to a threat to all life on Earth.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-bitumen-boom-oilsands-election-experts-1.5091759

#Canada #BC #environment #sustainability

Yukon College is building a new science building, as part of their transition to becoming a university. The plan is to design a program of studies that will allow students to incorporate both Western science and indigenous traditional knowledge, which seems pretty cool.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-college-sceince-building-budget-1.5063626

#canada #yukon #science #education

Canada is warming twice as fast as the global average, most notably in the prairies and BC. Both the Conservative opposition and the media seem content to make sure this is not the major issue heading into the federal election later this year.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/climate-change-report-1.5079886

#cdnpoli #canada #climatechange #climatecrisis

Conservative climate change policy in a petro-province leaves much to be desired? Colour me shocked!

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/keith-gerein-ucps-disappointing-climate-change-strategy-not-worth-the-wait

#cdnpoli #canada #alberta #climatechange #climatecrisis