PV Ontario Bureau Ontario and the planet are in the midst of a massive climate and environmental crisis. The effects of this include more frequent severe weather events such as storms, floods, droughts and heat waves; increased risk of pandemics [...]
F-35 purchase could instead finance conversion of 2/3 of fossil fuel electricity in two years Dave McKee On March 28, the government came clean on one of its worst kept secrets of the decade when it announced its decision (again) to purchase [...]
Part One in an ongoing People's Voice investigation into climate justice and a “just transition” Norm Knight There has been some argument among environmentalists about whether the clean energy transition can be achieved entirely on the basis of [...]
After a summer marked by oppressive heat, devastating forest fires and, above all, by the alarming report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), September 24 saw worldwide mobilizations by environmental organizations, youth and [...]
The accelerating pace of climate change linked to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions includes the alarming news that average temperatures are rising in Canada by a rate 2.5 times faster than other parts of the planet. Canada is projected to fall far [...]
The ongoing arrests at the Fairy Creek watershed emphasize yet again the need to declare a ban on logging in areas of old-growth forests across British Columbia. This step is urgent - time is quickly running out to save our planet from the [...]
The well-being of Newfoundland and Labrador energy workers has been thrown into jeopardy, following the recent collapse, then revival, of government-corporate talks to bail out the Terra Nova offshore oilfield. These workers and their communities [...]
Ottawa and four provinces have jumped on the small modular nuclear reactor (SMNR) bandwagon and if things go as announced there will be SMNRs operating in Canada by the end of this decade. New Brunswick has given a total of $30 million to two [...]
Dave McKee Marxists have long understood the link between capitalist expansion and environmental degradation. As Frederick Engels wrote in 1876, “What cared the Spanish planters in Cuba, who burned down forests on the slopes of the mountains and [...]
By Corinne Benson Jason Kenney’s government has been dancing all over on coal policy. First, they talk to Australian coal mining companies before letting Albertans know they are planning to rescind the 1976 coal policy and allow mountaintop [...]
