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Leaders’ inaction lets environmental collapse continue

Climate emergency accelerates

It was Williams job to bully

They struck despite threats of massive fines

Canadian far right protests spread

Far right mobilise over Covid restrictions

As people face extreme weather across Canada and the US, Sophie Squire explores the developing nature of the climate crisis

Youth Climate group Fridays for Future has announced a global climate strike on 24 September.

The death toll is rising as a heatwave continues to sweep parts of the US and Canada.

A heat wave across the US pacific northwest is a reminder of how climate change can lead to weather events that are potentially “life-endangering”.

The G7 Summit this week in Cornwall will see the world’s most powerful leaders discuss a response to the environmental emergency. Sophie Squire explores the leaders’ response to the climate crisis that is threatening all our futures

The discovery of 215 First Nation children’s remains at the site of Canada’s biggest residential school has sent a shockwave of grief and anger across the country.

A pitched battle is being fought over fishing rights in Nova Scotia, Canada. On one side, is the Mi’kmaw nation, and on the other stands commercial fishers backed by big business. 

Bernie Sanders is the frontrunner to be the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate after a landslide victory in Nevada last Saturday.

The Canadian government is ramping up attacks on indigenous First Nation land in an effort to support fossil fuel interests.

Over 10,000 people joined Greta Thunberg in Vancouver, Canada, last Friday to march for climate justice.

Some three million people joined a huge climate strike across 28 countries on Friday of last week.

Jesse McLaren and Pam Frache argue the Tories’ defeat will strengthen the movement for the battles ahead

French workers join mass demos | Climate march held in Quebec | US cop charged with murder

Flash mobs of indigenous activists and their supporters, hundreds strong, blocked roads, bridges and railway lines across Canada last week.

Earlier this week Tory chancellor George Osborne named the new governor of the Bank of England—the Canadian banker Mark Carney, who will take over from Mervyn King.

After a six-month strike students in Quebec celebrated a victory last month when the new Parti Quebecois government announced it would reverse a planned tuition fees hike. The new government also repealed Bill 78, an emergency law introduced in May, aimed at restricting the right to protest. Aamna Mohdin and Jamie Woodcock spoke to Jérémie Bédard-Wien, a spokesperson for CLASSE, a radical student coalition that played a central role in the movement

Up to 1,000 joined this year’s "Slutwalk" march last Saturday in London. It comes a year on from the disgusting remarks from a Canadian police officer, who told students, "If you don’t want to get raped, don’t dress like a slut."

Some 100,000 protesters marched through Quebec in Canada on Wednesday of last week to mark the six month anniversary of the student strike movement against tuition fee rises there.