Martin Lukacs
Martin Lukacs is an independent journalist living in Montreal, Quebec.
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Views Friday, December 05, 2014 It's Time for a Public Takeover of the Tar Sands It would be hard to invent a more destructive ritual of national self-punishment. Year after year, we hand oil companies gigantic tracts of pristine land. They skin them of entire ecosystems. They vacuum billions of dollars out of the country. Their oversized power, sunk into lobbying and... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 04, 2014 In Canada, Indigenous Rights 'Scare the Hell Out of' Dirty Energy Investors The Canadian government is increasingly worried that the growing clout of aboriginal peoples’ rights could obstruct its aggressive resource development plans, documents reveal. Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 21, 2013 ‘Nobody Understands’ Spills at Alberta Oil Sands Operation Read more |
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Views Friday, July 12, 2013 Quebec's Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Disaster Not Just Tragedy, But Corporate Crime Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 28, 2013 Indigenous Rights are the Best Defense Against Canada's Resource Rush In a boardroom in a soaring high-rise on Wall Street, Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel is sitting across from one of the most powerful financial agents in North America. Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 24, 2012 Quebec's 'Truncheon Law' Richochets as Student Strike Spreads At a tiny church tucked away in a working-class neighbourhood in Montreal's east end, Quebec's new outlaws gathered on Sunday for a day of deliberations. Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 03, 2012 Quebec Student Protests Mark 'Maple Spring' in Canada The social unrest roiling Quebec is colour-coded red. One cannot miss the hundreds of thousands of people with cloth of the colour pinned to their coats and satchels; the stickers pasted on street poles and storefront mannequins; and the sheets fluttering from balconies and windows. Read more |
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Views Monday, August 15, 2011 Canada's PR Work for Tar Sands: Dirty, Crude and Oily Another climate-related record will soon be broken, but it's not like those you've been hearing about: the heat waves, droughts and torrential floods setting calamitous precedents everywhere. For a change, mark down this next one as a sign of hope. It's that Washington will play host to the largest act of civil disobedience for the climate in US history. Read more |