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Greta Thunberg donates US$1.1 million rights prize to green groups

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN – Climate activist Greta Thunberg was on Monday awarded a Portuguese rights award and promptly pledged the million-euro prize to groups working to protect the environment and halt climate change.

“That is more money than I can begin to imagine, but all the prize money will be donated, through my foundation, to different organisations and projects who are working to help people on the front line, affected by the climate crisis and ecological crisis,” the Swedish teen said in a video posted online.

She was awarded the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity for the way she “has been able to mobilise younger generations for the cause of climate change and her tenacious struggle to alter a status quo that persists”, Jorge Sampaio, chair of the prize jury, said earlier.

July 21, 2020

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6 reasons why displacing the homeless must stop, regardless of COVID-19

Canadian courts have condoned this cycle of continual
displacement. Homeless individuals have a right to camp temporarily in
certain public places when housing is unavailable, but governments may
restrict them to a few limited areas, force them out every morning and
prohibit camping everywhere else.

Nowhere to shelter legally

The upshot? Almost nowhere in Canada can homeless people legally erect even the most rudimentary shelter.

July 21, 2020

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Major new pipelines and mines must show path to net zero to get approved

July 20, 2020

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Ford is repaying health workers by stabbing them in the back.

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It wasn’t long ago that politicians were lining up to give praise to health care workers. Indeed, these workers have been at the very front lines of this pandemic, seeing and experiencing firsthand the horrors of this disease.

In April, Doug Ford claimed it was the nurses and health care workers that deserved the accolades instead of himself. That’s all fine and well, but Ford’s actions don’t back up his words.

At the same time, the Ontario government was instituting emergency orders that eroded the workplace rights of health care workers. Unions objected, but their warnings were ignored. After months of sacrifice, health care workers are being rewarded with an even more brazen attack on their worker rights. A new bill being fast-tracked by Ford’s government will see health care workers stripped of “their vacation rights, their leave of absence rights, their seniority rights, [and] their health and safety rights.”

Source: Ford is repaying health workers by stabbing them in the back.

This entry was posted in General and tagged Doug Ford, healthcare, Ontario on July 20, 2020 by Steve.

Since The Start of COVID19 Canada Has Spent $11.86 billion Supporting Fossil Fuel Energy

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Since the beginning of the COVID19 pandemic in early 2020, Canada has committed at least USD 12.09 billion to supporting different energy types through new or amended policies, according to official government sources and other publicly available information. These public money commitments include:

At least USD 10.05 billion for unconditional fossil fuels through 42 policies (15 policies with the value of support quantified and 27 policies with the value of support unquantified)
At least USD 1.81 billion for conditional fossil fuels through 3 policies (2 policies with the value of support quantified and 1 policy with the value of support unquantified)
At least USD 222.78 million for unconditional clean energy through 2 policies (2 policies with the value of support quantified)
Some public money committed for conditional clean energy (1 policy with the value of public money unquantified)
At least USD 12.45 million for other energy through 5 policies (1 policy with the value of support quantified and 4 policies with the value of support unquantified)