By Natasha Bulowski, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s long-awaited plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is not aligned with the country’s fair share and contains problematic funding promises for the oil and gas industry, some politicians say.
Continue reading Increased oil and gas production, carbon capture tax credits calls Canada’s new climate plan’s credibility into questionBy Zahra Mahdi, New Canadian Media, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
While Canada has opened one dedicated stream for all Ukrainians escaping Russia’s invasion, it only made room for 40,000 Afghans escaping the Taliban’s rule under four cumbersome emergency response streams.
Continue reading Canada’s emergency response starkly different for Ukrainians, Afghans
Cortes Currents was in attendance at the March 12 “Just Transition Day of Action” event in Campbell River.
Approximately 25 people attended the event, promoted and inspired by the international climate organization 350.org and hosted locally by the Campbell River Chapter of Council of Canadians, a national justice, democracy and human survival organization.
Continue reading Just Transition Rally in Campbell RiverBy Natasha Bulowski, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
There is a saying in the Kaska language: “Dene K’éh Didī Nī́ʼ Sū́géhʼīn Mā” — “woman taking care of the land.”
“It’s something that’s really well known in our community,” Gillian Staveley, a director at the Dena Kayeh Institute in British Columbia, told Canada’s National Observer, “because people acknowledge that it is women who are taking care of the land and they always have been and they always will be.”
Continue reading Indigenous women are blazing a conservation trailNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The West Coast fishing sector is being hung out to dry and deserves a just transition like other climate-affected industries after the federal government put in widespread closures to the salmon fishery last year, the fish harvesters union says.
Boat captains, crews, and shore workers are suffering dire economic hardship with zero emergency or transitional supports after the ministry of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) closed 79 salmon fisheries last June, said James Lawson, president of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers’ Union (UFAWU).
Continue reading Feds leaving West Coast fishing sector to flounder after salmon closures, harvesters say
