Chris Hatch
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The war profiteers
Connecting the dots for you on world events, Canadian politics, banking and climate change → Read More
Unprecedented protest rocks 'Kafkaesque' COP25
Protests led by Indigenous leaders shut down the main hall of COP25 in Madrid on Wednesday. In an unprecedented event, about 500 people stormed the area outside the high-level negotiations decrying the lack of action by assembled governments to address the climate emergency. The state of negotiations at COP25 was described as a "Kafkaesque absurdity" by the head of Climate Action Network Canada,… → Read More
Tesla Cybertruck carbon crushes Ford F-150
Ford's F-150 is over 100 times more polluting than Tesla’s new Cybertruck. → Read More
Canadian youth occupy MP offices across the country calling for climate action
Canadian youth conducted sit-in demonstrations across the country on Friday, occupying the offices of members of parliament and calling for increased action against climate change and in support of Indigenous rights. → Read More
Quebec oil stats undermine Canada's denial brigade
We’ve heard it time and again. The argument that Quebec has no business touting itself as a climate leader when it’s dependent on Saudi oil. But the argument simply isn’t true, according to the latest numbers. → Read More
Fascism is a 'fresh opportunity' Seriously, CBC?
In response to Brazil's election of a wildly neo-fascist president, CBC News is glowing about new opportunities for Canadian mining companies in devastating the Amazon. → Read More
British Columbians want electric cars but just try finding one
One-in-three British Columbians expect to buy an electric car as their next vehicle, but they’re going to have trouble finding one. → Read More
There are now over 10 million jobs in renewable energy
Asia is leading the global surge in renewable energy jobs. In 2017, the renewable energy industry broke a symbolic threshold, employing over 10 million people, according to the International Renewable Energy Association's latest research. IRENA found that over half a million jobs were added in the last year alone. > China is the runaway job creator providing 65 per cent of the world's solar… → Read More
Spill near Vancouver. Is the cosmos messing with Trudeau and Notley?
The cosmos must be messing with Justin Trudeau and Rachel Notley. Just as the Kinder Morgan pipeline controversy surges to fever pitch over oil spill impacts, a barge near Vancouver has sunk, spilling diesel into the ocean in the territory of the Squamish Nation. → Read More
Steve Katz with Linda Solomon Wood on practicing journalism in the time of Trump
How well do you understand the damage to our collective psyches by Donald Trump's "chaos-based" government? Steve Katz, publisher of Mother Jones, gave National Observer subscribers an account from the front lines of American journalism at the kickoff event in the "Urgent Conversations" series, held Nov. 16 in Vancouver. → Read More
Trudeau has room to step up on climate
Fully 79 per cent of Canadians believe we “face a catastrophe if we fail to do more.” → Read More
Supersizing electric vehicles: Loblaws trucks going green
Loblaws, which owns widely-known brands including President's Choice, Joe Fresh and Asian grocery chain T&T, announced a commitment to completely electrify its fleet of trucks → Read More
Petronas cancellation highlights need for just transition off fossil fuels
Petronas has cancelled plans for a massive project in B.C. that would have become the largest source of climate pollution in Canada. → Read More
Is big oil committing fraud to stay in business?
Canada’s oilsands have been sucked into the bitter legal fight around Exxon and climate change. → Read More
Who's banking on Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline?
Canada's "big five" banks are the largest backers of Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline project, according to the company's financial documents. → Read More
How media failed in its coverage of Omar Khadr
You deserve thoughtful analysis to make up your own mind → Read More
Response to explosive report not enough, PM Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can't afford to be ambiguous in his response to the Der Spiegel report. → Read More
Trudeau can't afford his ambiguity on Trump
Der Spiegel stands by report suggesting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeased U.S. President Donald Trump regarding removal of mention of the Paris climate agreement from declaration. → Read More
Donald Trump, climate saviour?
It looks more and more like Trump may have given the global climate movement what it most lacked — a clear enemy. → Read More
Climate change is making us crazy: a conversation with Norman Fischer
American Zen Buddhist Norman Fischer speaks with National Observer about the power of “not-knowing,” about climate despair and the danger of confusing global warming with our own mortality. → Read More