This is not the apocalypse . . . yet. But, the recent raging fires, droughts, hurricanes, floods, storms and melting ice feel like it. And these are only the impacts of a 1°C increase in global temperatures. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report stated with “high confidence,” that human activities have already increased […]
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Trudeau has capitulated to Kinder Morgan’s blackmail. Canada’s Liberal government will buy the existing pipeline that runs from Alberta’s tar sands to the port of Vancouver for $4.5 billion. It is now Trudeau’s pipeline. It will be up to his government to try to force through the pipeline expansion against mass resistance. Trudeau’s decision will […]
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The resistance to Kinder Morgan’s pipeline to Vancouver is building. At the end of January British Columbia’s NDP government announced restrictions on any increase in diluted bitumen (dilbit) allowed to pass through BC’s coastal waters. In early March, in the biggest gathering so far against the pipeline, 10,000 people joined as First Nations stepped up […]
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Brett Forester is a status Anishinabe member of the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation. By Brett Forester is a status Anishinabe member of the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation living Ottawa. We thank him for allowing Socialist Alternative to publish this article, which first appeared on thebrassmonk.com. Across Canada people took to the […]
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Canadian governments continue to remove many Indigenous children from their homes. They have learned nothing from the disasters of residential schools and the “Sixties Scoop.” 150,000 Indigenous children were forcibly removed into residential schools. The Sixties Scoop removed 20,000 Indigenous children from their families, placing them with non-Indigenous families in Canada and abroad. The facts […]
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In BC, fentanyl deaths have just kept growing from 50 in 2013 to 1,422 in 2017. In the US in 2016, 64,000 people died of drugs overdoses, up from 52,000 the year before. Fentanyl is behind the surge, as deaths from fentanyl have surged from around 2,000 a year before 2014 to over 20,000 in […]
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