According to NBC News,
the former frontman’s auction raked in $21.5 million, all of which will
be donated to ClientEarth, a nonprofit environmental law organization
that prides itself on using the law to “combat climate change” and
“defend habitats and wildlife,” according to its Facebook page.
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This Father-Daughter Team Is Taking on Justin Trudeau over Climate Change
Rebecca and her dad hope the letter will either impact cabinet’s decision or pave the way for a future legal challenge against the government.
They’re making a novel legal argument. In approving the pipeline, the regulator, the National Energy Board, refused to consider the pipeline’s total impact on climate change. Their letter argues Canada’s failure to do so violates section seven of the Charter, which protects Canadians’ rights “to life, liberty and security of the person.” Gage and other lawyers argue that by authorizing increased emissions, Canada is causing risk to human life and security, especially for the younger generation. It also also cites section 15, which guarantees Canadians shall not face discrimination, including on the basis of age. The letter states greenhouse gases “inevitably impact the youth disproportionately, since the climate effects of those emissions may not be felt for a decade or more.”
Trudeau’s Climate Change Policy Is Strategically Inadequate | The Tyee
The Trudeau government’s recent actions — declaring a climate emergency and re-approving the Trans Mountain expansion project within two days — aren’t just hypocritical: they’re morally equivalent to climate change denial.
The United Nation’s authority on climate change recently recommended “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” to counter an imminent crisis, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s recent decisions have flagrantly ignored the UN’s counsel.
He’s bent over backwards to ensure the Trans Mountain pipeline’s expansion, propping up the project with extensive financial and rhetorical support. In the process, the Trudeau government has perpetuated the prerogatives of an industry that has funded climate change denying research and (knowingly) pollutes the planet.
Make no mistake: Trudeau’s actions represent climate change denial “with a human face,” a darker version of Czech communist leader Alexander Dubček’s 1968 description of his ill-fated liberalization program as “socialism with a human face.”
PBO pushes up cost estimate for Canada’s frigate build by $8 billion | CBC News
The new estimate, released Friday, adds $8 billion to that
projection — and notes that the increase is due in part to the fact that
production at the Irving Shipbuilding yard in Halifax will begin later
than initially planned and the Type 26 is a bigger ship than the budget
office originally anticipated.
projection — and notes that the increase is due in part to the fact that
production at the Irving Shipbuilding yard in Halifax will begin later
than initially planned and the Type 26 is a bigger ship than the budget
office originally anticipated.
Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves
Giroux said Canadians are paying a slight premium because the Liberal
government selected a design for a warship that is not yet in service.
The first-ever Type 26 is under construction for the Royal Navy at the BAE Systems Inc. shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland.
KPMG is in the middle of an unbelievably dirty cheating scandal that keeps on getting uglier
For more than a year, regulators have known that KPMG employees had been
stealing regulatory information and using it to cheat on inspections of
its audits – they’d steal the FEC’s list of upcoming inspection
targets and revise their work to make sure the inspections didn’t find
any flaws. The SEC was set to hand down a $50m fine.
stealing regulatory information and using it to cheat on inspections of
its audits – they’d steal the FEC’s list of upcoming inspection
targets and revise their work to make sure the inspections didn’t find
any flaws. The SEC was set to hand down a $50m fine.
Then, yesterday, the SEC announced that they’d found a second, even more
disturbing pattern of cheating, one that went right to the top, with
KPMG’s most senior staff cheating on their integrity exams
(!!), sharing answers in advance, and hacking the tests to lower the
score needed to pass it (the tests were delivered online, and in the URL
for the test was a variable that set the percentage needed for a
passing grade: “MasteryScore=70” – by lowering this value, cheaters
could turn any number of right answers into a pass). Some auditors
“passed” their ethics exams with a score of only 25%.
These exams tested auditors on their ethics, their expertise, and their
mastery of the continuing education courses they were required to take
to remain licensed to practice.