By Pam Wright, the Chatham Voice, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Chatham printer offering free pro-Canadian posters.
Like most of us, Rick Gardiner is fed up with President Donald Trump’s mean-spirited attacks on Canada.
Last week the graphic designer’s exasperation peaked, so the owner of Planet Print channelled his anger into creating a unique emblem protesting Trump’s notion that Canada become the 51st U.S. state.
Continue reading ‘Elbows Up!’By Morgan Sharp, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s goal of a net-zero economy by 2050 will require a broad reassessment of how we live and work, creating some entirely new jobs and remodelling many others. Post-secondary institutes say they’re already shifting to train the next generation of workers.
Continue reading Colleges get set to train Canada’s green workforceBy John Woodside, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A report published this week by the Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO) finds Ottawa’s tax breaks to the fossil fuel sector are leaving nearly $2 billion on the table each year in lost revenue.
The report comes at the request of Sen. Rosa Galvez, who asked the PBO to estimate the cost of deductions related to fossil fuel development. Specifically, it found that from 2015 to 2019, tax deductions related to fossil fuel exploration, development, property expenses and other measures averaged $1.8 billion annually. The low year was 2016 with approximately $1.3 billion worth of tax deducted, but since then, the amount has escalated to nearly $2.4 billion in 2019, the most recent figures available using T2 corporate tax data.
Continue reading Parliamentary Budget Officer says fossil fuel tax breaks costing Canada $billionsthe Discourse, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
What do you want to see change to stop anti-Indigenous racism? This is a question that Rain Daniels has been asked since the early nineties. Her answer remains the same. “These issues need to be taken seriously,” she says.
Continue reading Interrupting anti-Indigenous racismCanada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Two tiny B.C. island communities are well ahead of the curve when it comes to the federal government’s move to ban single-use plastics.
Continue reading Cortes and Quadra ditched single use plastics long ago
