Don’t let the Fort Mac fire turn into feel-good boosterism for the extractive industry. They knew this was coming.
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 (...)
“The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has acknowledged shocking details about the violence of Canada’s near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar on the country’s present. And Canada’s record on climate change is a crime against humanity’s future.” —The Leap Manifesto
Five hundred (...)
THE LEAP MANIFESTO:
We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent memory.
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has acknowledged shocking details about the violence of Canada’s near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar on the country’s present. And (...)
In a wide swath of red, thousands upon thousands of people hit the streets in quiet Quebec City last Saturday with a cacophony of chants, drums and quiet conversations snaking through the tiny ancient streets of the old city emerging into a park. There organizers distributed large, square red (...)
Safety Board final report on Lac Mégantic disaster is sharply critical of railway regulation, but federal gov’t unmoved
Canada’s Transportation Safety Board issued a 181-page report on August 19 detailing the breakdown in application and enforcement of federal rail safety regulations that caused (...)
Protests, marches and direct actions are vitally important, but to win our goals we need to build mass, democratic political organizations.
On July 14 a dozen or so activists staged an occupation of a worksite in Toronto associated with Enbridge’s Line 9, an oil pipeline that runs across the (...)
August 27, 2013–As the toxic oil from the July 6 oil train disaster in Lac Mégantic, Quebec seeps deeper into the town center’s soil and disperses into waterways, and as town residents slowly reestablish their shattered lives, the corporate interests that caused the disaster and have been keeping (...)
This catastrophe is not an isolated or technical problem. It poses the need for social mobilisation aimed at ecological transition and liberation from unscrupulous big business and its accomplices in the Canadian State.
Le Réseau écosocialiste (Ecosocialist Network) was founded in Montreal in (...)
Paper based on a talk given to the Socialism 2013 conference in Chicago, June 28, 2013.
Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, has a dream. If he has his way Canada will be the new world oil superpower – a rival to Saudi Arabia. It’s a wonderful dream for Harper and Canada’s profiteers, but the (...)
The result of the May 14 election in British Columbia was a setback to progressive forces in the province and across Canada. The incumbent Liberal Party won a fourth straight term with 21.8 per cent support from eligible voters (44% of those who voted). Its principal election plank was ‘full (...)
I’ve spent time recently at literature tables on streets here in Toronto’s East End explaining the tar sands threat to neighbours for whom this topic is quite new. I meet every conceivable response, from tar sands enthusiasm to determined opposition.
Let me explain how this developed.
The (...)
The following interview with John Riddell was conducted by Andrew Sernatinger, an activist and journalist based in Madison, Wisconsin.
John Riddell – Can you explain what’s happening in Canada with the tar sands pipelines, what they are, and what they’re going to do?
Andrew Sernatinger – It (...)
Petroleum giant Enbridge Inc. has taken huge strides in recent weeks to complete its plan to transport tar sands oil to eastern Canada and from there to foreign markets.
Already assured of support from the Harper government, the company is rapidly lining up further backing from provincial (...)
The November 17 conference, “The Tar Sands Come to Ontario: No Line 9,” was a big success. Three hundred people jammed into a lecture theatre at University of Toronto for the plenary session. Every seat was taken, more than 50 people stood or sat in the aisles, and an equal number listened from (...)
Coastal First Nations leader explains how they won the support of 80% of British Columbians for the indigenous peoples’ campaign against Enbrodge’s pipeline plan.
The following talk was given by Art Sterritt, Executive Director of Coastal First Nations, to the “Tar Sands Come to Ontario: No Line (...)
The Canadian government’s present plan to build a pipeline carrying environmentally disastrous tar-sands oil through northern B.C. “has prompted an outpouring of opposition unlike anything seen in years,” wrote Les Whittington in the Toronto Star on September 9. He quoted Green Party leader (...)
This essay was commissioned for the second edition of Tool Kit For A New Canada, which will be published by Canadian Dimension magazine this fall.
The Tool Kit is a collection of short articles by Canadian activists, on the key issues of our times, including inequality, austerity, crime and (...)
On July evenings, most people in Toronto are just trying to find ways to escape the heat and humidity. Nevertheless, on Monday July 30, attendance at a meeting on Contested Futures: Tar Sands and Environmental Justice greatly exceeded the organizers’ expectations.
Over 150 people filled the (...)
A four-page report by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board into the disastrous pipeline break by Enbridge Corporation in Michigan last year is probably a final nail in the coffin of the company’s proposed ‘Northern Gateway’ tar sands bitumen pipeline across northern British Columbia to an (...)
Scientists to march through Ottawa in white lab coats in protest at cuts to research and environmental damage.
Canada’s prime minister, Stephen Harper, faces a widening revolt by the country’s leading scientists against sweeping cuts to government research labs and broadly pro-industry policies. (...)
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