BC’s carbon tax: Where’s the tax?
British Columbia's much-hyped carbon tax hurts the poor ... the bottom two income quintiles as clear losers and those in the top two quintiles clear gainers. ... [click title to continue]
End auto subsidies! Ecosocialists on unions, jobs and transportation
Subsidies to the corporate polluters and climate wreckers take us further down a wrong path. Unions must point the way to a better future, not defend the bad old ways that are leading our planet to the brink of environmental catastrophe. ... [click title to continue]
Ontario meetings challenge Energy East pipeline
Our Risk, Their Reward! Council of Canadians will hold public meetings on TransCanada pipeline plan in six Ontario cities, April 7-28. ... [click title to continue]
Energy East pipeline: TransCanada lies about refinery jobs
Report shows proposed pipeline aims to boost tar sands profits through export of crude oil, not to create refinery jobs in Atlantic Canada ... [click title to continue]
Canada has the world’s worst record on climate
Environmental journalist tells Toronto meeting that Canada is now "simply written off in climate discussions" ... [click title to continue]
Ambassadors of the First Nations tar sands resistance
In 1885, Louis Riel wrote, "My people will sleep for one hundred years" and then wake up. In Canada's tar sands, that renaissance has begun. ... [click title to continue]
Defenders of the Land: An Indigenous program for self-determination
We are sovereign nations. We have the inherent right to self-determination. We will determine our own destinies in accordance with our own customs, laws, and traditions – not in a way dictated to us by Canadian and provincial governments. ... [click title to continue]
Québec ecosocialists: Basis of unity and action
Founding statement of Réseau écosocialiste: "Ecosocialism advocates the distribution of wealth, ecological and democratic planning, and popular sovereignty." ... [click title to continue]
Belleville protesters challenge tar sands pipeline
Activists in this small city are challenging Enbridge's plan to pump tar sands bitumen across sensitive lands near the shore of Lake Ontario. ... [click title to continue]