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Jun 18, 2019

Avoiding climate chaos means zeroing in on emissions

David Suzuki

We have little time to get emissions under control before we lock in so much CO2 and other greenhouse gases that temperatures will rise to catastrophic levels. Even the oil companies know this.

Podcast

Nov 8, 2018

The larger story of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster

rabble radio

Author Bruce Campbell weaves a skillful narrative about how policy failure devastated lives in a tragic story of big oil, deregulation and free market ideology.

Columnists

Jun 7, 2018

Trudeau chooses oil over national interest in Kinder Morgan pipeline buyout

Linda McQuaig

How can something be in the national interest when it would significantly contribute to the destruction of the very planet that sustains us?

Columnists

Feb 16, 2018

Will the NDP take the great Leap Manifesto forward?

Linda McQuaig

With key Sanders and Corbyn acolytes attending the Ottawa annual conference, there is a chance to get a jump on Trudeau when it comes to fossil fuel use

News

Jan 26, 2018

Huge wasteful subsidies to corporations deplete funds for social programs

Ed Finn

If the national income were more equitably allocated –- as it is in truly progressive countries –- much of the prevailing social distress in Canada could be alleviated.

Blog

Jan 18, 2018

Oil is becoming the new tobacco

Penney Kome

Like Norway, NYC divests from oil stock and also sues five oil companies for damages.

Columnists

Jun 8, 2017

How NAFTA surrenders Canadian energy sovereignty -- and gives the U.S. control over our oil

Linda McQuaig

In an age when control over energy shapes global politics and the fate of the world, why wouldn't Canadians be happy to leave our energy in the hands of Trump's Washington and Big Oil?

Columnists

Nov 3, 2016

Jackson Browne, Indigo Girls among musicians banding together against Dakota Access Pipeline

Amy Goodman

Denis Moynihan

Musicians are rallying with the land and water protectors at Standing Rock to pressure oil billionaire Kelcy Warren, CEO of Energy Transfer Partners, which owns the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Blog

Aug 30, 2016

Five things I learned at the NEB hearings in New Brunswick

Robin Tress

We hope these five lessons will help make your intervention at the National Energy Board (NEB) hearings into the Energy East pipeline effective and empowering.

Blog

May 24, 2016

Oil profits, pipelines and the human cost of regulatory capture

Bruce Campbell

Regulatory capture exists where regulation is routinely designed to benefit the private interest of the regulated industry at the expense of the public interest.

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