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Magazine
What is Gender-Based Environmental Violence?
When humans degrade the land, Indigenous women, girls, and trans and Two-Spirit people are the most severely affected. This isn’t an accident; it’s an integral part of settler-colonialism.
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Sask Dispatch
Regina Municipal Election 2020: Sustainable transit
In 2018, Regina city council committed to a 100 per cent renewable city by 2050. Free transit, electric buses, and bike lanes will be a huge component of a renewable city – so why is council so hesitant to implement them?
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Sask Dispatch
Regina Municipal Election 2020: Environment & Sustainability
The city walked back its 2018 motion to use 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050; but environmental sustainability has never been a more pressing local issue. Here’s how local activists are envisioning a truly renewable Regina.
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Magazine
Decolonizing ecology
From traditional fishing technologies to bringing back the bison, Indigenous ecological practices are our best bet to save the planet – and ourselves
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Sask Dispatch
Business in Wascana violates Master Plan and threatens the park’s future
A Master Plan was put in place to ensure the integrity of Regina’s iconic park, but over the past few years, the plan has been undermined and business has begun to encroach on public space.
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Online-only
TD Scholars ask TD to cut ties with Coastal GasLink pipeline
In this open letter, 33 recipients of TD’s Scholarship for Community Leadership ask that TD withdraw its support for the pipeline, which violates Wet’suwet’en sovereignty
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Teck is dead. What’s next?
Activists are calling the current moment of Indigenous land defense a “paradigm shift.” But does it signal a death knell for Canada’s oil and gas industry?
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Sask Dispatch
Renewable Regina forum platforms residents’ voices
Regina residents gathered to offer recommendations on the city’s Renewable Regina motion – which some say has been “denuded” – in advance of May’s Reimagine Regina conference.
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Magazine
Of lovers and land
How can immigrant settlers – weighted by our own racial memory of land and its loss – cultivate ethical relationships with the land here?
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Unpacking the Coastal GasLink injunction and its omissions
How one Canadian judge justified violent theft of Wet’suwet’en land
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Magazine
A just transition requires a planned economy. But whose plan?
Corporate, for-profit planning, aided and violently enforced by the settler colonial state of Canada, will not bring about a just transition.
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Sask Dispatch
Northern forests on the chopping block
Logging has nearly quadrupled in the last 10 years, and northern residents are raising red flags about the pace of clear-cutting
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The Indigenous nation exposing the lie of Canada’s “world class” oil spill response
A 2016 diesel spill exposed holes in Canada’s touted “world class” oil spill response regime. At a sentencing hearing today, Canada gave the company a slap on the wrist; but the Heiltsuk nation is fighting for real justice.
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Magazine
Just transition: a vision and a plan
Around us, we see fear and uncertainty about the world that is coming into being. This issue of Briarpatch came from a desire to articulate a hopeful vision of the future, and a plan for how to get there by addressing interwoven social and environmental crises.
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Magazine
Qu’est-ce que la décroissance?
Pour les partisans de la décroissance, il est urgent que nos sociétés rompent avec la course à la croissance économique avant que les limites biophysiques de notre planète ne nous imposent une décroissance forcée et brutale. Aujourd’hui, le mouvement fleurit au Québec.
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Magazine
Décroissance
The degrowth movement calls for a radical downscaling of production and consumption, in order to save us from climate catastrophe. Today, the movement is blooming in Quebec.
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Magazine
Confronting economic barriers to a just transition
I sat down with six economists to ask them two pressing questions: first, what are the biggest economic barriers to a just transition in Canada and, second, how do we overcome them?
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Sask Dispatch Briefs
Geothermal power plant to be built with $25.6 million from feds
A major geothermal power generation facility is set to be built in Estevan, SK, Treaty 4 territory.
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Magazine
How can farmers fight back against the new NAFTA?
NAFTA 2.0 is chipping away at hard-won policies that guard Canadian farmers from price volatility and ensure high labour and environmental standards. The National Farmers Union is fighting back – at the level of both grassroots and policy.