Edmonton displaced more encampments than Toronto, Calgary, Montreal, or Ottawa in 2022 and 2023 so far, according to this excellent reporting by Zacharie Goudreault of Le Devoir.

#yegcc #abpoli

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Germany set to propose a 3-year rent break across the country, as tenants struggle to cope with the soaring cost of housing.

“We need to create breathing room — we need a rent freeze for the next 3 years”

If Germany can do it, so can [insert country]
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On September 20th City Council is considering giving profitable corporations a subsidy to turn their vacant offices into apartments.

Tell Council that lower corporate profits are not the responsibility of working families. #yegcc #corporatewelfare workingfamiliesedmonton.ca/action/stopcor…

We can’t expect politicians will solve the housing crisis if they’re landlords and benefit from the housing crisis.

Looking forward to Edmonton City Council getting painted as “defund the police“ enthusiasts by their opponents over the next three years even as they inflate police budgets to record levels. 🥳

will public transit and libraries get less money with this police funding formula. yes. did andrew knack support it. also yes. but at least he wrote a blog post about how hard it was to vote for the status quo.

after a lot of tough talk and tough questions city council have given the police everything they asked for. i'll have to go through the numbers but based on my original skim the eps budget is likely to climb to a half billion dollars on sohi's watch.

Seen in Vancouver:
#methane

In “good news you might’ve missed amidst climate chaos,” Ecuadorians have voted to halt all new oil development in Yasuní national park, the sacred homelands of many Indigenous peoples.

The move will keep about 726 million barrels of oil in the ground.
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Can't stop thinking about Suncor choosing this moment of ALL POSSIBLE TIMES to announce they're going to turn their focus away from long-term energy transition and double down on oil sands production.

Burning the planet under no illusions.

let's not stop with the labs. let's nationalize electricity too. and car insurance.

we are just letting atco, transalta and others enron us on the regular. this is why power prices in alberta have spiked.

There are 137 wildfires burning in the Northwest Territories right now. 137.

That’s 9 less than the number of times the fossil fuel industry met with the federal government in one month alone.

These corporations don’t give a fuck about our future.

The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-called Canada is once again on this list of bestselling independently published books sold at (a sampling of) independent bookstores across Canada, alongside some other great titles. hamiltonreviewofbooks.com/blog/2023/07/1…

Alberta commits another $45 million to #hydrogen -- an enormously speculative & expensive fuel which prolongs dependence on fossil gas -- while stalling solar and wind, which are available, effective & affordable

The definition of a petrostate

LabourStart's Photo of the Week: Canada is experiencing a wave of rejected agreements as union members choose to strike rather than accept wage increases that do not keep pace with the rate of inflation. (Photo: J4W)

If I were the official opposition I would start repeating, non-stop, that the UCP needs to reverse its job-killing restriction on renewable energy

theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…