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Sask Dispatch
Renewable Regina forum platforms residents’ voices
Regina residents gathered to offer recommendations on the city’s Renewable Regina motion – which some say has been “denuded” – in advance of May’s Reimagine Regina conference.
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Magazine
Of lovers and land
How can immigrant settlers – weighted by our own racial memory of land and its loss – cultivate ethical relationships with the land here?
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Unpacking the Coastal GasLink injunction and its omissions
How one Canadian judge justified violent theft of Wet’suwet’en land
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Magazine
A just transition requires a planned economy. But whose plan?
Corporate, for-profit planning, aided and violently enforced by the settler colonial state of Canada, will not bring about a just transition.
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Sask Dispatch
Northern forests on the chopping block
Logging has nearly quadrupled in the last 10 years, and northern residents are raising red flags about the pace of clear-cutting
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The Indigenous nation exposing the lie of Canada’s “world class” oil spill response
A 2016 diesel spill exposed holes in Canada’s touted “world class” oil spill response regime. At a sentencing hearing today, Canada gave the company a slap on the wrist; but the Heiltsuk nation is fighting for real justice.
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Magazine
Just transition: a vision and a plan
Around us, we see fear and uncertainty about the world that is coming into being. This issue of Briarpatch came from a desire to articulate a hopeful vision of the future, and a plan for how to get there by addressing interwoven social and environmental crises.
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Magazine
Qu’est-ce que la décroissance?
Pour les partisans de la décroissance, il est urgent que nos sociétés rompent avec la course à la croissance économique avant que les limites biophysiques de notre planète ne nous imposent une décroissance forcée et brutale. Aujourd’hui, le mouvement fleurit au Québec.
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Magazine
Décroissance
The degrowth movement calls for a radical downscaling of production and consumption, in order to save us from climate catastrophe. Today, the movement is blooming in Quebec.
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Magazine
Confronting economic barriers to a just transition
I sat down with six economists to ask them two pressing questions: first, what are the biggest economic barriers to a just transition in Canada and, second, how do we overcome them?
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Sask Dispatch Briefs
Geothermal power plant to be built with $25.6 million from feds
A major geothermal power generation facility is set to be built in Estevan, SK, Treaty 4 territory.
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Magazine
How can farmers fight back against the new NAFTA?
NAFTA 2.0 is chipping away at hard-won policies that guard Canadian farmers from price volatility and ensure high labour and environmental standards. The National Farmers Union is fighting back – at the level of both grassroots and policy.
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Magazine
wepâhokiw
“there is a scene in smoke signals where the sad native boy cries as he pours his father over bridge into / roaring angry always been there river / and i could not help but picture myself entangling in the meander.” Poetry winner of the Writing in the Margins contest.
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Magazine
A nursery tale of the sea
“There is a Sunday quietness / to the sea with just one diseased whale with sad, ulcerous eye / and her dead calf swirling around the tepid / teacup of brown water.” Best of Regina winner of the Writing in the Margins contest.
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Magazine
The war on boycotts
Jason Kenney is borrowing from Israel’s anti-BDS playbook to take down environmentalists who threaten Alberta’s oil industry
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Magazine
The leftist’s case against the carbon tax
It’s a fundamentally libertarian policy – and one that tends to just piss people off, not invigorate them about the possibility of a just and sustainable future.
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Sask Dispatch
Decarbonized, democratized, decolonized
The NDP’s climate plan is too little, too late. Saskatchewan’s Just Transitions Summit brought people together to envision a more radical grassroots strategy.
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Magazine
The Oil Industry’s PR Offensive
A climate justice journalist heads to the Global Petroleum Show in Calgary to see how the industry is pushing its messages, and who is doing doing the heavy lifting.
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Magazine
Checking in with the oil crowd
The conference guidebook for the 50th annual Global Petroleum Show tells me we’re here “CELEBRATING THE FUTURE OF ENERGY.” Excuse my skepticism.
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Magazine
Burn now, bury later
As we teeter on the brink of climate disaster, we’re drilling deeper wells in a desperate attempt to put the carbon dioxide that’s warming our planet back under the ground.