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  • Image: Bento Rodrigues, Brazil, one month after the November 2015 breach. © Bruno Milanez, PoEMAS / UFJF

    Tailings dam collapses in the Americas: Lessons learned?

    In fewer than five years, three major dam collapses have occurred in the Americas—the most recent of which killed more than 230 people, and likely killed up to 260; many of the dead have never been recovered from the toxic mining sludge in which they were buried. The disasters that…

  • November 2006: Thinking the Apocalyptic Unthinkable

    Oil-dependent civilization will end before century does Whether the human species will survive this century is now—or should be—the main concern of everyone. It’s no longer a far-fetched Chicken Little “the-sky-is-falling” bugaboo. Enough evidence has been found to show us beyond doubt that the next several decades will be the…

  • November 2000: Arming A Genocidal Force

    Canadian military exports to Indonesia, 1979-1999 As the Indonesian army and its militias set fire to Dili and killed thousands of East Timorese in September 1999, the Canadian government refused to stop the export of military goods to Indonesia. This at a time when even the United States, Jakarta’s main…

  • Mosquito Wars: Politics, Economics or Science?

    Heated debates are going on again in Brandon and Winnipeg about the most effective way to deal with mosquitoes. In thinking about this issue it is useful to begin with the broad historical context of mosquito control, and then to follow with a look at some recent and current research…

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    Rapport sur les travailleurs racialisés et autochtones dans des emplois à risque d’infection par la COVID-19

    TORONTO—Selon un nouveau rapport du Centre canadien de politiques alternatives (CCPA), les travailleurs autochtones et racialisés ont été plus nombreux, tout au long de la pandémie, à occuper des emplois les mettant en contact étroit avec d’autres personnes, ce qui a augmenté leur risque d’infection par la COVID-19. Intitulé Un…

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    BC needs a full public inquiry into fracking

    Last year, more natural gas was produced in British Columbia than at any point in the past 10 years. That may come as a surprise to some people who thought that growth in BC’s natural gas industry hinged on the emergence of a Liquefied Natural Gas sector. It does not.…

  • Economic Security Project (BC)

    Cultivating Farmworker Rights

    Ending the Exploitation of Immigrant and Migrant Farmworkers in BC Download 1.03 MB77 pages Attachments Cultivating Farmworker Rights: Ending the Exploitation of Immigrant and Migrant Farmworkers in BC – SUMMARYFarmworkers relegated to second-class status: study – PUNJABI News ReleaseCultivating Farmworker Rights: Ending the Exploitation of Immigrant and Migrant Farmworkers in…

  • The 10 Worst Corporate Lobbyists

    It’s big business to promote, defend big business interests Getting politicians to bend policy to your company’s will is a fine art. It requires a combination of charm, dogged persistence, threats – and bushels of cash. But corporate lobbyists know just which buttons to press in order to persuade politicians…

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    Think system change for Canada’s low-carbon reboot

    There is growing momentum for a low-carbon reboot of our high-carbon economy as we emerge from a pandemic-induced shutdown. Since business-as-usual has been so disrupted, the timing for a major leap has never been better. Earlier this year, the Australian wildfires provided humanity’s latest wake-up call. Many are nervous about…

  • Time to mobilize like we mean it

    Lessons from the Second World War for the climate emergency Even before the arrival of COVID-19, the history of the Second World War was making a remarkable comeback. Our movie theatres (remember those?), Netflix offerings and bookstore shelves were full of modern reboots of our mid-century wartime experience. Then the…

  • Scorpions, Icebergs, and Cancers

    We have to understand capitalism before we can challenge it Readers’ reaction to my “Cui Bono” column in the February issue has been mixed. Most agreed with my rather somber depiction of uncontrolled capitalism as the main cause of large-scale inequality, poverty, conflict, preventable disease, and the erosion of democracy.…

  • Our Deadliest Addiction

    Oil drives our commerce, but could drive us to extinction “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.” — Heraclitus, 535 BC-475 BC. * * * When European explorers first sighted a pristine Gulf of Mexico 500…