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'We Need More People Like' Regan Russell: Mourning and Justice Demanded Over Killing of Animal Rights Activist Regan Russell

"(Regan Russell) supported Black Lives Matter, Indigenous rights and she was an intersectional vegan who understood the importance of equality in terms of racial justice and in terms of animal equality."(Photo: Animal Justice)

Critics Say Canada Should Seize Failure to Win UN Security Council Seat as Catalyst for 'Foreign Policy Reset'

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

"The Liberals promised change, but the world is unconvinced."

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'This Is Why We Continue to Fight': Indigenous Leaders Outraged as Trans Mountain Pipeline Spills 50,000 Gallons of Crude Oil

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"We cannot continue to have our land desecrated by oil spills."

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'Exceptionally Troubling': Researchers Show Hack-for-Hire Operation Targeted Groups Fighting for Climate Action and Net Neutrality

Julia Conley, staff writer

"If the investigation demonstrates that Exxon is behind these attacks, it only...

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In Latest Legal Blow to Trump and Dirty Energy, Federal Appeals Court Upholds Block on Keystone XL Permit

Protesters at a rally in Vancouver to show opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline on September 9th, 2017.

'Some Honesty for Once': Alberta Energy Minister Celebrates Covid-19 for Making In-Person Pipeline Protests More Difficult

A new alliance of Canadian groups is calling for a just recovery.

Nearly 200 Groups in Canada Vow to Fight for Covid-19 Recovery That Puts Human and Ecological Health First

"Despite its peaceful reputation, Canada is not acting as a benevolent player on the international stage," states an open letter published by activists, artists, and academics on Tuesday. (Image: Canadian Foreign Policy Institute)

No—Argue Noam Chomsky, Roger Waters, Monia Mazigh, and 100+ Others—Canada Does Not Deserve UN Security Council Seat

Again Finding US Permit Invalid, Federal Court Upholds Block on 'Climate-Busting' Keystone XL Construction

2 Weeks After Nova Scotia Massacre, Canada Bans Assault Weapons. 7 Years After Sandy Hook in the US—And Still Nothing

"We need billions of public dollars invested directly in vulnerable communities dying from COVID-19, not spent propping up massive oil companies and unneeded projects that would trample Indigenous rights and exacerbate the climate crisis," said Oil Change International's Collin Rees. (Photo: Elvert Barnes/Flickr/cc)

'A Shameful New Low': Amid COVID-19 Crisis, Alberta Govt. Ponies Up $1 Billion for Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline

"From coast to coast we are rising up in solidarity with the Wet'suwet'en nation and against colonial violence and land theft," said Vanessa Gray, Anishinaabe Kwe Land Defender from Aamjiwnaang First Nation and one of the organizers of Sunday's demonstration. "It's clear that Canada is a state built on the removal of Indigenous people for resource extraction."

'Against Colonial Violence and Land Theft,' Indigenous Activists and Allies Target Mining Industry Convention in Toronto

Protesters Arrested After Police Raid Mohawk Railway Camp Constructed in Solidarity With Wet'suwet'en

Environmental and Indigenous activists protested outside a hall at the start of a plenary session during the COP25

'Amazing News': Climate Activists Celebrate Victory After Forcing Company to Abandon Proposed Tar Sands Project

Crudeau Oil protest

42 Nobel Laureates Urge Trudeau to Act With 'Moral Clarity' and Stop Climate-Wrecking Teck Frontier Mine

Trudeau Calls for 'Dialogue' as Indigenous Rights Protesters Declare, 'When Justice Fails, Block the Rails'

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It's Zero Hour: Activists Chain Themselves to Pier To Block Shipment For TMX Pipeline

At least five activists were arrested Tuesday for blocking a shipment of pipeline for Canada's much-hated TMX project by locking themselves to the dock in Vancouver WA where it was to be unloaded. The action by Portland Rising Tide was the third targeting the port for its role in transporting particularly heavy, dirty Alberta tar sands crude for a $7.4 billion project that environmentalists, First Nations, and many others view as a disaster in the making.

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Center for Biological Diversity

In Yet Another Blow to Keystone XL, Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Revive Key Water-crossing Permit

Council of Canadians

Council of Canadians Calls on Prime Minister to Invest in Public Infrastructure Projects, Not Privatization

350.org

350.org responds to announcement that TC Energy will proceed with Keystone XL pipeline

Oil Change International

Oil Change International Response to Keystone XL Subsidy Announcement from Alberta

350.org

Climate Justices Means Respecting Indigenous Rights – 350.org Statement Supporting Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders

Greenpeace

Greenpeace Statement on Arrests of Wet’suwet’en Land Defenders and Solidarity Protesters

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Bianca Mugyenyi

Why Canada—and the World—Deserve a Better Foreign Policy in Ottawa

Linda McQuaig

How Ottawa is Driving Up the Cost of Infrastructure by Listening to Wall Street

Elana Sulakshana

Who’s Insuring the Trans Mountain Pipeline?

Bianca Mugyenyi

Canada Isn't the Right Choice for the UN Security Council

Claire O’Manique

The Way Out of the COVID-19 Crisis Is a Green New Deal

Linda McQuaig

Let’s Not Be Duped Again By Deficit Hawks Peddling Austerity

Michael Lynk

Canada Missing in Action on Israel's Proposed Annexation of the West Bank

Linda McQuaig

Trudeau Should Lift Punishing Sanctions That Harm Vulnerable Nations

Heather Mallick

Why are Americans So Servile to a Clown President?

Linda McQuaig

Ottawa Should Produce Vital Products—Like It Did in the Second World War

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