Provincial program cut will lead to more demand on charities, lawyer says | CBC News
It’s scheduled to end on Nov. 1.
350.org reports over 4 million people were striking today.
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In Australia today, students were striking there as well.
THIRD PHOTO: More people striking.
FOURTH PHOTO:
Over 250,000 in a New York park
Video on Twitter of protest from Freiburg, Germany: http://tiny.cc/zp23cz
If elected, the 3.3 billion in fossil fuel subsidies that Canada provides, will continue. He says the world and the rest of Canada need Alberta oil.
Inspired by the 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg,
protests are planned in about 150 countries to call on governments to
take immediate action to limit the harmful effects of manmade climate
change.
Why a ‘just transition’ doesn’t have to pit jobs against the environment | CBC News
But that’s not the way Dwaine MacDonald sees it. MacDonald is one of the co-founders of Trinity Energy Group, a company based in Stellarton, N.S., that makes commercial and residential buildings more energy-efficient, through better insulation and thermal barriers. And business is very good.
To give a sense of Trinity’s expertise, in 2010, the company worked on a 14-bedroom farmhouse that every year required 14 cords of wood and two barrels of oil for their heating needs. Trinity’s retrofit brought it down to four cords of wood and half a barrel of oil.
Clean Energy Canada found that in 2017, there were almost 300,000 jobs in the clean-energy sector — more than the approximately 200,000 positions in the petroleum sector.
Barrage of hate follows after man points out logical flaw in Calgary Transit system | CBC News
“hey faggot! tak
ur french bullshit … and get the f–k out of my town!!! If i see you
in MY BEAUTIFUL CITY kickin up shit storms over NOTHIN i’ll take ur
f–kin head right off …,” one response read.
“This
is just the kind of b&llshit that one should expect from a pinko
hippie leftie entitled faggot artist like you.… You best hope I never
see your pouting smug little victim face … if I do, then you will get a
big lesson in humility comin,” read another message.
“I
will happily curb stomp you out of your misery if I every (sic) happen
to come across your sorry sight,” was yet another message.
And
those weren’t the worst of the messages, Maciak said. He didn’t share
them initially, but this reporter felt they provided necessary context.