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Enbridge’s Kalamazoo Spill Saga Ends In $177 Million Settlement

July 21, 2016 David Hasemyer, www.insideclimatenews.org , ,
By David Hasemyer for Inside Climate News - The Canadian pipeline company Enbridge has been fined $61 million as part of an overall $177 million settlement for a massive 2010 oil spill into Michigan's Kalamazoo River. The spill required years and more than a billion dollars to clean up and highlighted the hazard of pumping heavy tar sands oil through pipelines. The settlement was announced Wednesday between Enbridge and the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Justice. It ends nearly two years of negotiations and levies one of the largest penalties ever for an inland oil spill.

Alberta Wildfires Costliest Disaster In Canadian History

July 12, 2016 BobMagill, www.climatecentral.org , ,
By Bobby Magill for Climate Central - The Fort McMurray wildfire, driven by drought and climate change, was the costliest natural disaster in Canadian history, ringing up $3.58 billion in losses, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada. The wildfire, which ignited May 1 in eastern Alberta and was brought under control on July 5, forced Canada’s largest-ever evacuation. It scorched more than 1.4 million acres and destroyed 2,400 homes and other buildings in and around Fort McMurray, the hub of Canada’s oil sands industry.

Black Lives Matter Toronto Stands By Pride Parade Shutdown

July 6, 2016 Julia Craven, www.huffingtonpost.com , , , , ,
By Julia Craven for The Huffington Post - When the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter discovered they were the honored guests at the city’s 2016 pride parade, the group wasn’t very enthused. And on Sunday, activists from the Toronto chapter of Black Lives Matter brought the city’s parade to a halt for about 30 minutes to urge for the inclusion of more black LGBT members in the festivities. “We understood that Toronto Pride has had a history of anti-black racism,” Janaya Khan, a co-founder Black Lives Matter Toronto, told The Huffington Post.

Ontario Moving Forward With Basic Income Pilot

June 26, 2016 Daniel Tencer, www.huffingtonpost.ca , ,
By Daniel Tencer for Huffington Post. Ontario, Canada - Former Sen. Hugh Segal has been a vocal proponent of basic income for decades, and now he will have the opportunity to help make the idea a reality. Ontario’s provincial government has appointed Segal — former chief of staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney — as an advisor on the design and implementation of its basic income pilot project. It will be designed “to test the growing view that a basic income could help deliver income support more efficiently, while improving health, employment and housing outcomes for Ontarians,” the province’s Ministry of Community and Social Services said in a statement on Friday. A basic income would deliver a certain amount of money regularly to every legal resident, regardless of employment status or any other factor.

Scientists Say Canada’s LNG Port Threatens Paris Climate Accord

May 31, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - Ninety climate change experts from around the world urged Canadian government officials to "take urgent action" and reject a proposed, "unjustified" liquid natural gas (LNG) export terminal to be built on the British Columbia coast, joining with fierce local Indigenous opposition to the controversial project. "The carbon emissions of the proposed PNW LNG terminal and associated upstream natural gas development would be 'high in magnitude, continuous, irreversible and global in extent.'"

Fires In Canada And PUC Pipeline Dishonesty

May 24, 2016 Winona LaDuke, www.inforum.com , ,
By Winona LaDuke for Inforum - The firestorm in Alberta's Fort McMurray grew eight times as large in a couple of days—engulfing more than 600,000 acres. Not just one fire, it was series of fires, and as the fire enlarged, it created its own storm systems. The fire has not yet been put out, although it moved away from the city, ravaging the Wood Buffalo National Park and forests in the north.

Not Just Alberta: Fires Fuelled By Warming Climate Are Increasing

May 12, 2016 Staff, www.cbc.ca , ,
By Staff of CBC News - Alberta's unusually early and large fire is just the latest of many gargantuan fires on an Earth that's grown hotter with more extreme weather. Earlier this year, large wildfires hit spots on opposite ends of the world — Tasmania and Oklahoma-Kansas. Last year, Alaska and California pushed the U.S. to a record 10 million acres burned. Massive fires hit Siberia, Mongolia and China last year and Brazil's fire season has increased by a month over the past three decades.

Fort Mac Fire And Feel-Good Boosterism For Extractive Industry

May 11, 2016 Nora Loreto and Sarah Beuhler, www.rabble.ca , ,
By Nora Loreto and Sarah Beuhler for Rabble - It's been inescapable: the emotion that rises each time another story crosses the screen about the wildfires in Alberta is enough to occupy any free, thinking part of a brain and burst an already full chamber of a heart. Especially when we think about 90,000 people fleeing a Canadian city because of a climate emergency. And the workers: the ones who have lost everything and the ones who haven't but who sleep on cots in camps.

Newscasts Ignore Global Warming’s Role In Canada’s Wildfires

May 11, 2016 Miles Grant, www.fair.org , ,
By Miles Grant for FAIR - As fast and furious as trailers for a Hollywood disaster movie, network news coverage of the massive fires ripping through Canada’s tar sands hub has missed opportunities to provide real information about the heavily polluting tar sands industry and global warming’s role in adding fuel to the flames. As of May 10, the fires have burned nearly 800 square miles in the province of Alberta and hit about 2,400 homes, businesses and other structures.

Canada Will Move To Legalize Pot Next Year

April 27, 2016 Phillip Smith, www.alternet.org ,
By Phillip Smith for AlterNet - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, elected last fall, campaigned on a promise that his Liberal government would legalize marijuana. Now, we're getting an idea of just when that is going to happen. Speaking at the UN General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) on Drugs Wednesday, Canadian Health Minister Jane Philpott said the government will introduce legislation to legalize and regulate marijuana in spring 2017.

Canada’s NDP Retires Mulcair, Adopts Leap Manifesto On Climate

April 12, 2016 Staff, www.cbc.ca ,
By Staff of The Canadian Press - “Whatever its merits, the NDP did NOT adopt the Leap Manifesto at its convention. In fact, they adopted a compromise resolution that sent it back to be discussed, examined, debated, etc, etc, by NDP riding associations which will then bring back all the fruits of their labours to the 2018 convention where a version of the manifesto that may or may not have been modified may or may not be adopted.”

#BlackLivesMatter Camps At Police Station For 2 Weeks

April 8, 2016 www.dcindymedia.org , , ,
By Tamara Khandaker for Vice News - Any discussion of anti-black racism in Toronto, much to the frustration of many black Canadians, commonly elicits one response — that it's not as bad as it is in the United States. Patrisse Cullors, LA-based activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM), said she didn't even know Canada had issues until she met her husband Janaya Khan, a co-founder of the Toronto chapter of the growing, international movement. It's the only active branch outside of the United States.

Toronto City Council Asks Province For Police Review

April 5, 2016 Staff, www.therealnews.com , , ,
By Staff of The Real News Network - BLM action gains traction among municipal politicians while longtime community activists tell The Real News about the continuity of Black struggles in Toronto

Canada: Police Crackdown On Toronto Black Lives Matter Protest

March 23, 2016 Staff, www.truth-out.org , , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - Protesters said their encampment was attacked by police officers. Police shutdown a Black Lives Matter protest that had set up a camp in front of police headquarters in downtown Toronto Monday. Police reportedly forcibly removed the tents set up by demonstrators and had firefighters on hand doused the fire started by the demonstrators in order to keep warm.

Survival Under Threat, Canada’s Indigenous Unite Against Tar Sands Pipelines

March 16, 2016 Nika Knight, www.commondreams.org , ,
By Nika Knight for Common Dreams - Indigenous people in Canada are rising up together in greater numbers than ever before to oppose tar sands pipelines on their traditional territory, forming fierce coalitions to oppose pro-oil regional governments and fossil fuel industry officials who are pushing for more tar sands infrastructure. "An alliance of indigenous nations, from coast to coast, is being formed against all the pipeline, rail and tanker projects that would make possible the continued expansion of tar sands," Grand Chief Serge Otsi Simon of the Mohawk Kanesatake First Nation wrote to the Quebec premier in a letter dated March 9...
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