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The Lancet's comprehensive new report "paints a bleak and undeniable picture of the devastating health harms reaching all corners of the world. The destruction to lives and livelihoods will continue to escalate until we end our fossil fuel addiction"
The Lancet's comprehensive new report "paints a bleak and undeniable picture of the devastating health harms reaching all corners of the world. The destruction to lives and livelihoods will continue to escalate until we end our fossil fuel addiction"
"Despite the harm, the world’s governments provided $956bn in direct fossil fuel subsidies in 2023, which was the world’s hottest year on record until it was surpassed by 2024"
In 2023, #Canada gave O&G $18.6 bln in direct subsidies; in 2024, it was $29.6 bln.
The Lancet's comprehensive new report "paints a bleak and undeniable picture of the devastating health harms reaching all corners of the world. The destruction to lives and livelihoods will continue to escalate until we end our fossil fuel addiction"
What else could you expect? The Liberals now plan to magically cut spending by letting crucial programs for climate, health, and Indigenous communities simply expire.
They're framing this as "ending government waste" to fund military boosts and tax cuts for the upper class. Now, with no friends in Parliament and a budget nobody wants to support, they're shocked that their fiscal shell game might plunge the country into a Christmas election. 🤡
Alberta has just veered off the cliff into full-on authoritarianism, stripping workers of fundamental rights, it is an inflection point for our country, but it isn’t sudden… this is the dark heart of the “new conservative” movement.
This movement is absolutely at its core a supremacist movement, one that supports “rights for me but not for thee”.
As the waves of labour action ripple out beyond Alberta teachers and past the boundaries of the province, you will be told this isn’t your fight, it’s a local matter; sit down and shut up.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a beautiful expression of one vision of what Canada can and should be, and they simply don’t want that vision.
This is a national issue and there are no neat legal solutions to this that can be done by others: instead changing this path for Canada will require people in the streets at numbers we haven’t seen in generations.
In the wee small hours of the morning, the Alberta legislature passed a bill that preemptively invoked the notwithstanding clause, ordering striking teachers back to work, and imposing on them a contract they had already rejected. Today, by coincidence, the Senate's Transport and Communications committee began a study of strikes in the transport sector. Since we had two great expert witnesses before us - labour lawyer Paul Champ and business professor Ian Lee - I seized the opportunity to ask what precedent Danielle Smith's bill might set. https://youtu.be/oKSYDrSCx8U?si=ItXTHkQemJOqZLSW #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #ableg #abpoli #ATA #AirCanada #Alberta #DanielleSmith
"Alberta not only stripped away teachers' rights under the Charter sections to which the notwithstanding clause applies. They also revoked their rights under the Human Rights Act and the Bill of Rights. They told teachers that no human rights protections apply to them as workers. That's an appalling step for a government to take and sets a shameful precedent.
However, the most egregious part of this legislation might be Section 14, which goes even farther by banning the ability of teachers to even fight back in the courts for any reason. It goes far beyond and means that teachers would not only not be able to fight this on the basis of S.2 and 7-15 rights but also any and all constitutional or other legal grounds. This means that not only are they trying to suspend Charter rights but also any and all right to fight back in the courts against the legislation and even the collective agreement itself.
It not only strips the right to strike. It also strips the basic democratic right to have one's case heard by the law. It's a deep, deep violation of one of the most basic aspects of a free and fair society. When governments can not only take your rights away but also take away even the ability to go to court to fight back, you have no legal means left to resist.
People with no legal recourse to fairness tend to resort to other forms of resistance, including refusing to comply with unjust laws. I don't know what teachers will decide to do on Wednesday, but I certainly know the rest of us need to be standing up. This is a violation of all our fundamental rights."
In the wee small hours of the morning, the Alberta legislature passed a bill that preemptively invoked the notwithstanding clause, ordering striking teachers back to work, and imposing on them a contract they had already rejected. Today, by coincidence, the Senate's Transport and Communications committee began a study of strikes in the transport sector. Since we had two great expert witnesses before us - labour lawyer Paul Champ and business professor Ian Lee - I seized the opportunity to ask what precedent Danielle Smith's bill might set. https://youtu.be/oKSYDrSCx8U?si=ItXTHkQemJOqZLSW #cdnpoli #SenateofCanada #ableg #abpoli #ATA #AirCanada #Alberta #DanielleSmith
"Alberta not only stripped away teachers' rights under the Charter sections to which the notwithstanding clause applies. They also revoked their rights under the Human Rights Act and the Bill of Rights. They told teachers that no human rights protections apply to them as workers. That's an appalling step for a government to take and sets a shameful precedent.
However, the most egregious part of this legislation might be Section 14, which goes even farther by banning the ability of teachers to even fight back in the courts for any reason. It goes far beyond and means that teachers would not only not be able to fight this on the basis of S.2 and 7-15 rights but also any and all constitutional or other legal grounds. This means that not only are they trying to suspend Charter rights but also any and all right to fight back in the courts against the legislation and even the collective agreement itself.
It not only strips the right to strike. It also strips the basic democratic right to have one's case heard by the law. It's a deep, deep violation of one of the most basic aspects of a free and fair society. When governments can not only take your rights away but also take away even the ability to go to court to fight back, you have no legal means left to resist.
People with no legal recourse to fairness tend to resort to other forms of resistance, including refusing to comply with unjust laws. I don't know what teachers will decide to do on Wednesday, but I certainly know the rest of us need to be standing up. This is a violation of all our fundamental rights."
Alberta has just veered off the cliff into full-on authoritarianism, stripping workers of fundamental rights, it is an inflection point for our country, but it isn’t sudden… this is the dark heart of the “new conservative” movement.
This movement is absolutely at its core a supremacist movement, one that supports “rights for me but not for thee”.
As the waves of labour action ripple out beyond Alberta teachers and past the boundaries of the province, you will be told this isn’t your fight, it’s a local matter; sit down and shut up.
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms is a beautiful expression of one vision of what Canada can and should be, and they simply don’t want that vision.
This is a national issue and there are no neat legal solutions to this that can be done by others: instead changing this path for Canada will require people in the streets at numbers we haven’t seen in generations.
Gil McGowan - head of the Alberta Federation for Labour and the Common Front has said - “I just want to make it really clear that if the government puts a gun to the head of the teachers and they’re not able to continue their strike, then we in the broader labour movement will stand where they’re not able to,”
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/unions-react-to-bill-2
#ABPoli #CdnPoli #TeacherStrike #AFL #ATA #Solidarity #Labour
The Alberta #UCP has just blown up a century of labour action and worker’s rights hard won against coercive and exploitative employers. They - the employer - have just unilaterally imposed a contract on teachers in clear contravention of their constitutional and Charter rights, and have invoked the “notwithstanding” clause to shield themselves from legal consequences.
A summary of the act:
Here are the 20 key takeaways from Alberta’s 2025 Back to School Act (Bill 2) — the highlights that matter most for understanding what this law does:
• Ends the Alberta teachers’ strike that began Oct 6, 2025, and the lockout by TEBA that began Oct 9, 2025.
• Forces all teachers back to work immediately — strike must end at once.
• Forces TEBA and school boards to end any lockout immediately.
Gil McGowan - head of the Alberta Federation for Labour and the Common Front has said - “I just want to make it really clear that if the government puts a gun to the head of the teachers and they’re not able to continue their strike, then we in the broader labour movement will stand where they’re not able to,”
https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/unions-react-to-bill-2
#ABPoli #CdnPoli #TeacherStrike #AFL #ATA #Solidarity #Labour
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