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We might be closer to changing course on climate change than we realized
April 25, 2024 – Vox.com – Greenhouse gas emissions might have already peaked. Now they need to fall — fast.
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Gas companies tell us mixing gas and hydrogen is a climate solution. New research shows it’s not
April 25, 2024 – National Observer – Plans by Canadian gas utilities to blend hydrogen into their natural gas supplies to purportedly reduce their climate impact will in fact generate more than double the amount of harmful emissions than using natural gas alone, researchers have found.
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Province restores funding to environmental groups
April 22, 2024 – Winnipeg Free Press – The Manitoba government announced on Earth Day that it is restoring funding to three environmental non-profit organizations.
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Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Passed a New Milestone
Apr. 20, 2024 – New York Times – According to data released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Global Monitoring Laboratory earlier this month, last year had the fourth-highest annual rise in global carbon dioxide levels.
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Canada faces another grim wildfire season
April 18, 2024 – Counterfire – The wildfires in Canada kept burning all winter, and a new season is set to be catastrophic, as climate feedback loops accelerate disaster, warns John Clarke.
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How extreme cold events fit into the global warming model
April 19, 2024 – Earth.com – Global warming is undeniable, yet recent winters have witnessed record-breaking, extreme cold temperatures in unexpected areas. This paradoxical situation has scientists investigating the Warm Arctic-Cold Continent (WACC) phenomenon and its far-reaching impacts.
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How agroecology can be part of a ‘just transition’ for Canada’s food system
April 3, 2024 – The Conversation – Problems in Canada’s food system are being felt from field to fork — and they are increasingly hard to swallow.
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Manitoba Food Rescue Grocery grows, to save more food and more money for customers
Apr. 6, 2024 – Every pallet of bread, potatoes or beef that arrives at the Food Rescue Grocery in Brandon, Man., keeps good food from going to waste. Even better, the operation has been so successful it has been moved to a bigger location.
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The National Interest, Part 1: the Carbon Tax, Inflation & Climate Change Policy in Canada
Apr. 9, 2024 – Dougald Lamont – The math is clear: the carbon tax is not the cause of people’s economic misery. We need real investments that answer the real concerns of Canadians.
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Conservatives to challenge PM to hold ‘carbon tax emergency meeting’ with premiers
Apr. 9. 2024 – IPOLITICS AM – With the spring supply cycle now officially underway, the Conservatives are set to devote their first designated opposition day of the season to a motion that puts a new twist on the party’s ongoing call for an end to the federal pricing regime by challenging Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to “convene a carbon tax emergency meeting with all of Canada’s 14 first ministers.”
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We Really Can Live Without Fossil Fuels! Curt Hull, Director, Climate Change Connection presentation at Speaking Up October 19th, 2023 at X’Cues in Winnipeg.