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Greens would cut taxes and balance the budget

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- Green Party of Canada This week, in a cross-country launch, the Green Party of Canada unveiled a series of key policies that together would work to bring Canada out of the current structural deficit and into a new green economy. “I am here on Parliament Hill, where all MPs should be, to continue the important conversation started by the Parliamentary Budget Officer. Our country suffers from a triple ... [click title to continue]

Climate Change a Crisis of Conscience for All Canadians

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- United Church of CanadaMardi Tindal, the Moderator of Canada’s largest Protestant denomination, The United Church of Canada, today issued an open letter to Canadians calling on them to consider climate change a crisis of conscience.In the letter Tindal urges Canadians “to choose hope and action over despair and paralysis” in addressing what she calls “one of the most urgent moral challenges ... [click title to continue]

Royal Dutch Shell Shell faces shareholder revolt over Canadian tar sands project

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Investors call for review of oil production in AlbertaTerry Macalister The GuardianMonday 18 January 2010   Royal Dutch Shell group's dissident shareholders will press for a review of its tar sands project in Canada, at the oil firm's annual meeting in May. Photograph: Jeff McIntosh/APShell chief executive Peter Voser will be forced to defend the company's controversial investment in Canada's tar ... [click title to continue]

Canadian Ecosocialists: A job still in progress

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The following was written by Ian Angus in 2007. The challenges he outlined then still require much patient work (read the full article link).The growing worldwide interest in ecosocialism is reflected in two political trends:  Many people in the green movement are turning to Marxism to understand the ecological crisis and are concluding that only socialism offers a way out. Many on the Left believe ... [click title to continue]

Copenhagen and Canada

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Scoring Zero for Zero EmissionsCanadian Dimension Editorial CollectiveJanuary 7th, 2010A climate emergency threatens mass extinctions this century. Species are already disappearing at one thousand times the normal rate. Ample evidence points to the need for zero emissions plus more and further negative reductions of atmospheric carbon as soon as possible. Yet most “leaders” parade their gossamer ... [click title to continue]

Canada’s Green Party: Where did it all go wrong?

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Ecosocialism Canada presents this commentary from Stuart Hertzog's blog greenpolitics.ca. While EC would argue that an anti-capitalist orientation is required to resolve both our human and environmental crisis, we need to reflect critically on the experience of the green movement. It remains a very uneven development across the globe and green politics have grown to reflect a spectrum of positions. ... [click title to continue]

Canada Successfully Destroys Parody Websites

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Climate policy remains deplorableSubmitted by Andy Bichlbaum on December 29, 2009 to The Yes Men. The government of Canada has used strong-arm tactics to shut down two parody websites criticizing Canada's poor environmental policy, taking down 4500 other websites in the process.The two websites, "enviro-canada.ca" and "ec-gc.ca", are "directly connected to a hoax which misleads people into believing ... [click title to continue]

First Nations at Copenhagen

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On Monday a protest was held at the Canadian Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark to highlight the fact that Canada's tar sands production is the leading contributor to carbon emissions nationally. Carrier Sekani Tribal Council  territories are directly impacted from the tar sands through the pipeline proposal being brought forward by companies like Enbridge. Vice Tribal Chief Terry Teegee spoke to ... [click title to continue]