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And on the Plus Side

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By GAIL COLLINS - May. 16 (Opinion) - Let’s try to come up with some positive thoughts about the recent political fortunes of the Obama White House: • Economy’s getting a little better. Deficit’s dropping. • Bill Clinton had a really terrible second term and look how well things turned out f

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China joins Arctic 'coldrush club'

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - May. 15 (News Report) - Several countries gain permanent observer status on the Arctic Council but there is dissent over the EU.

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Save the Wolves of Isle Royale National Park

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By JOHN A. VUCETICH, MICHAEL P. NELSON, ROLF O. PETERSON - May. 09 (Opinion) - Moose first appeared on this Michigan island in the first decade of the 20th century, apparently by swimming from the mainland. With no predator to challenge them, the moose population surged (interspersed by two crashes, from starvation) and devastated

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Canada’s Oil Minister, Unmuzzled

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By JOE NOCERA - Apr. 25 (Opinion) - Op-Ed Columnist: Canada’s Oil Minister, Unmuzzled

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Camelot in Canada?

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By BRUCE MCCALL - Apr. 24 (Opinion) - There are no Kennedys or Bushes in Canadian politics, let alone anything like the successive Kims: Il-sung, Jong-il and Jong-un. We have no shortage of dimwits and blowhards in high office, but ours have never run in families.

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How Science Can Predict Where You Stand on Keystone XL

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Chris Mooney - Apr. 17 (Comment) - On February 17, more than 40,000 climate change activists—many of them quite young—rallied in Washington, DC, to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, which will transport dirty tar sands oil from Canada across the heartland. The scornful response from media centrists was predictable. Joe Nocera of the New York Times , for one, quickly went on the attack.

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Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Exacerbates Climate Change

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Scientific American - Apr. 17 (News) - The Keystone XL Pipeline would move enough tar sands oil to result in another 181 million metric tons of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere yearly. A new report prepared by environmental group Oil Change International (OCI) analyzes what the climat

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The Tar Sands Disaster

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thomas Homer Dixon - Apr. 02 (Opinion) - Both the cabinet and the Conservative parliamentary caucus are heavily populated by politicians who deny mainstream climate science. The Conservatives have slashed financing for climate science, closed facilities that do research on climate change, told federal government climate scientists not to speak publicly about their work without approval and tried, unsuccessfully, to portray the tar sands industry as environmentally benign.

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A Tale of Two Oil Spills

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Apr. 02 (Opinion) - Greens fret over pipeline leaks but are mute about train derailments.

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EXCLUSIVE: State Dept. Hid Contractor's Ties to Keystone XL Pipeline Company

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Andy Kroll - Mar. 21 (Investigative Report) - Late on a Friday afternoon in early March, the State Department released a 2,000-page draft report downplaying the environmental risks of the northern portion of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, which would ferry oil from Canada's tar sands to refineries in Texas, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. But when it released the report, State hid an important fact from the public: Experts who helped draft the report had previously worked for TransCanada, the company looking to build the Keystone pipeline, and other energy companies poised to benefit from Keystone's construction. State released documents in conjunction with the Keystone report in which these experts' work histories were redacted so that anyone reading the documents wouldn't know who'd previously hired them. Yet unredacted versions of these documents obtained by Mother Jones confirm that three experts working for an outside contractor had done consulting work for TransCanada and other oil ...

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German institute pulls out of Canadian tar sands project

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Mar. 20 (News Report) - Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres drops out of research into tar sands impact over fears of reputational impact

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China Knocks on Iceland's Door

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Einar Benediktsson, Thomas R. Pickering - Mar. 12 (Opinion) - As polar ice recedes, Iceland has become a strategic gateway to energy sources and new trade routes — and Beijing is showing its interest.

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No to Keystone. Yes to Crazy.

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN - Mar. 09 (Opinion) - If the oil pipeline is approved, President Obama will need to make it up to his green base.

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Facing the Threat of the Trans-Pacific Treaty

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0800

The Tyee - By Raul Burbano, Kristen Beifus, Manuel Pérez-Rocha - Mar. 08 (Opinion) - Since NAFTA was signed almost 20 years ago, all three North American countries have seen good jobs vanish, worsening income inequality, public services weakened through underfunding or offloaded to the private sector, increased food insecurity (in particular in Mexico), and ecosystems on the point of breaking. NAFTA promised a flourishing North American economy that would benefit all. In Jan. 2014, NAFTA has been in place for 20 years and the promised trickle down benefits have not been realized by communities.

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Op-Ed Contributor: How Not to Fix Climate Change

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Joe Nocera - Feb. 19 (Opinion) - Stopping the Keystone XL oil pipeline is actually counterproductive in more ways than one.

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Kerry Misses the Keystone Point

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By William Boardman, - Feb. 14 (News Analysis) - The shadow play aspects of the public posturing around the Keystone pipeline make it difficult to focus on the underlying reality that matters most: whether exploiting tar sands, not only in Canada, but in the U.S. and other countries, really will mean "game over for the climate," as NASA scientist James Hansen has said.

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The Strategic Importance of Keystone XL

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Michael Klare - Feb. 12 (Opinion) - This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. Presidential decisions often turn out to be far less significant than imagined, but every now and then what a president decides actually determines how the world turns. Such is the case with the Keystone XL pipeline, which, if built, is slated to bring some of the "dirtiest," carbon-rich oil on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to refineries on the US Gulf Coast.

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My Grandfather the Outlaw

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Frank Bruni - Feb. 03 (Opinion) - Chapters in the immigration saga change. The risks and hopes stay the same.

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What’s behind the explosion of native activism? Young people

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Globe and Mail - By Joe Friesen - Jan. 22 (Special Report) - Erica Lee is a 22-year-old Cree woman raised by a single mother in a rough part of town. She’s the first of her family to finish high school, the first to go to university and, as an organizer of the Idle No More movement, she represents a sea change in Canadian life and politics.

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Wolf Killings: The Raid on Natural Resources

Sat, 19 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By George Monbiot - Jan. 19 (Special Report) - In Alberta, the province systematically corrupted and brutalised by the oil curse, and whose polluted politics are now corrupting public life throughout Canada, the government plans to carry out a mass killing of wolves by shooting them from helicopters and poisoning them with strychnine. The reason, ostensibly, is to protect the woodland caribou, a subspecies of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus caribou), whose numbers have been diminishing rapidly. This, according to the Alberta Caribou Committee, is because wolves have been killing them. So what is this Alberta Caribou Committee? As you might expect, it represents all the usual environmental organisations, such as, er, PetroCanada, Shell, BP, ConocoPhillips, Koch Petroleum, TransCanada Pipelines, Alberta-Pacific Forest Industries and the pulp company Daishowa Marubeni.

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Editorial: America’s Health Disadvantage

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - Jan. 11 (Opinion) - The United States shockingly ranks at or near the bottom compared with other advanced nations.

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Canada’s guest worker program could become model for U.S. immigration changes

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Nick Miroff - Jan. 06 (Special Report) - When Oscar Reyes heads north for seasonal work every spring, he no longer pays a smuggler to sneak him through the desert past the U.S. Border Patrol. He takes Air Canada.

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Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Canada Creating Secret 'Insider Group' Of Lobbyists, Observers Say

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

huffingtonpost.ca - By Daniel Tencer - Dec. 02 (News Report) - The Harper government is creating a secret “consultation group,” likely comprised of lobbyists, who are getting inside information about Canada’s participation in Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, observers allege. Advocacy group OpenMedia has obtained a non-disclosure agreement (see below) it says the federal government mistakenly sent to it, asking the recipient to keep secret the information it receives about negotiations on the controversial economic and trade agreement. “I think it confirms that lobbyists are being permitted to have access to information about the TPP that is otherwise kept secret from public interest groups and citizens in general,”

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The battle against Big Energy's rush to ruin our planet | Daryl Hannah

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Daryl Hannah - Nov. 01 (Special Report) - The energy industry tries to sell us 'ethical oil', 'clean coal' and 'natural gas', but this extreme weather is mobilising people to act Extreme killer superstorms , historic drought , vanishing sea ice , an increase in ocean acidity by 30%, the hottest decade on record and mega forest fires have increasingly become our new reality. "That's all happened when you raise the temperature of the earth one degree," says author Bill McKibben, "[t]he temperature will go up four degrees, maybe five, unless we get off coal and gas and oil very quickly." Additional temperature rises could compromise our safety and cause incalculable damage from a large number of billion-dollar disasters in coming years – if we don't address our emissions, insist upon an appropriate climate policy and curtail the rogue fossil fuel industry.

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The Average Canadian is Now Richer than the Average American

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Time - By Samantha Grossman - Jul. 17 (Opinion) - It's almost enough to make you want to move to Canada -- if you can afford it

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