The provincial government has interfered with free collective bargaining again—this time suspending the right to strike for education support workers at Edmonton Public Schools after they voted 97% in favour of job action.

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The Province is using the Alberta Labour Code to Hammer Down Already Struggling Workers - CUPE Alberta

The Alberta Minister of Jobs, Economy and Trade is, again, using an obscure piece of the Alberta Labour Code to restrict the right of education support workers to take job action by imposing a Disputes Inquiry Board (DIB) on CUPE Local 3550.

^{jjohnson (CUPE Alberta)}

"If the United States were to undo its experiment with rampant inequality and return the distribution of income to the levels found in 1970, the housing crisis would disappear." - Blair Fix

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The American Housing Crisis: A Theft, Not a Shortage – Economics from the Top Down

I test if the US housing crisis could be solved by taking money from the rich and handing it too the poor. Spoilers ... it would work.

^{Blair Fix (Economics from the Top Down)}

Sérgio lives on the edge of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest – a crucial but often overlooked ecosystem compared to the Amazon. Like much of the land in Brazil, Sérgio’s property had once been cleared of trees to make space for cattle grazing. Realizing that he can make a difference, Sérgio decided to restore the forest in his own backyard.

Fast forward 10 years and Sérgio has planted more than 11,000 trees.
Thanks to the Ecosia community and our local partner, Instituto Espinaço, he hasn’t only restored his own land, but also brought life back to a small piece of Brazil’s forgotten forest.

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From grazing land to forest in 10 years

Living on the edge of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, Sérgio has made it his mission to restore it, starting in his own backyard. Ten years later, his hard work has paid off. Check out our latest video to see for yourself!

^{Ecosia (The Ecosia Blog)}

1. Receive wetland sampling data from Canadian scientist that clearly shows neonic levels that cause harm and must be banned under Canadian law.
2. Share that data with industry groups without researcher's permission, urging them to find "other results". Give them 4 1/2 years to do this.
3. Industry, Bayer and others, finds pretext to throw out "problematic" sites on the grounds that they can't be found on satellite imagery in autumn (normal for seasonal wetlands). Submits their own proprietary, cherry picked, non peer-reviewed data, much of it from simulated rather than real world data collection.
4. Lo and behold a ban on neonics is not needed after all!
5. Ignore scientist's rebuttal.

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Exclusive: How a federal agency colluded with a pesticide maker to silence a Canadian researcher

The federal pesticide regulator collaborated with an agrochemical giant to undermine research by a prominent Canadian scientist to stave off an impending ban of a class of pesticides harmful to human brains and sperm and deadly to bees, insects and b…

^{Canada's National Observer}

"It’s a strange time in politics when during an atmospheric river people come out and vote for a party that’s denying the reality of climate change." - Sonia Furstenau

It seems the majority did not, but 43.5% did, WTF?

They believe conspiracy theories without seeing the one right in front of their nose that they are falling for.

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B.C. election results: no clear winner. What could that mean for nature and climate?

After a dramatic election campaign, the BC NDP and the BC Conservatives were still neck-and-neck at midnight on election night. With some ridings still too close to call, British Columbia may be looking at another minority government

^{Shannon Waters (The Narwhal)}

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"the Creature of the Oil Sands doesn’t just rip the land up, contaminate the water, and destroy the atmosphere – it infiltrates the minds of corporations and government."

Monsters of Injustice: The Creature from the Oil Sands - RAVEN

Over millions and millions of years, layers of plant, animal, and – yes – dinosaur matter have been decomposing. The result? A black sludge that sits beneath the Earth’s surface, decomposing further and further into the land.

^{RAVEN (RAVEN Trust)}