Canada

Canadian inferno: Northern heat exceeds worst-case climate models

Jul 05, 2021 18:36

Johan Rockström, the Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, said the recent extreme weather anomalies in British Columbia were not represented in global computer models that are used to project how the world might change with more emissions.
'Horrifying': Record-breaking Northwest Heatwave linked to hundreds of deaths

Jul 05, 2021 18:19

The record-shattering heatwave currently scorching the Pacific Northwest has been linked to hundreds of deaths in the region with British Columbia alone reporting at least 486 "sudden and unexpected" fatalities.
Canada's indigenous genocide is ongoing

Jul 05, 2021 18:08

The founding of these two North American neighboring countries, Canada and the US has everything to do with genocide and erasure of Indigenous presence — as well as erasure of the horrors committed by white supremacist authorities in government, police, religious institutions and educational systems.
Queen statues toppled amid outrage over unmarked graves of Indigenous children

Jul 04, 2021 20:11

A group of demonstrators gathered at the Manitoba legislature on July 1st as the country marked Canada Day, and pulled down a statue of Queen Victoria.
Canada: Two more Catholic churches on First Nations reserves destroyed by fire

Jul 01, 2021 19:32

Two more Catholic churches on First Nations reserves in western Canada have been destroyed by fires that investigators are once again treating as suspicious.
Islamophobia: Four years after Finsbury Park attack, Canada deaths show threat undiminished

Jun 30, 2021 16:58

Muslims around the world will never be safe until the issue of Islamophobia is taken seriously and tackled head-on.
From boarding schools to child detention: Lives of children matter

Jun 11, 2021 18:20

The abduction of Indigenous children was “a project meant to render their worlds unsalvageable, create new realities on the ground, and demoralize them out of resistance.” This is perhaps why the Israeli regime military targets children.
Campaign to oppose Israeli regime military recruitment in Canada receives boost

Apr 30, 2021 18:53

The potential illegality of the Israeli regime military recruitment in Canda is embarrassing and promoting a foreign army rests uneasily with even right-wing nationalist thinking, which is generally sympathetic to an anti-Palestinian outlook.
The West practicing vaccine apartheid at a global level (1)

Apr 28, 2021 14:16

A comparison of the number of doses of vaccines manufactured by the rich countries with the number of doses used by them in their own countries provides a clear picture of the extent of vaccine apartheid practiced by these countries. An article in The New York Times in late March reveals, “Residents of wealthy and middle-income countries have received about 90% of the nearly 400 million vaccines delivered so far.”
For COVID-19 vaccines, some are too rich — and too poor

Dec 31, 2020 09:44

A few months from now, a factory in South Africa is expected to begin churning out a million doses of COVID-19 vaccine each day in the African country hardest-hit by the pandemic. But those vials will probably be shipped to a distribution center in Europe and then rushed to Western countries that have pre-ordered them by the hundreds of millions. None have been set aside for South Africa.