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What are the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and How Can Students Achieve Them?

paultran — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 23:21:02 +0000

Thaís Roberto What are the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and How Can Students Achieve Them? It's news to no one that the world is in desperate need of change. The climate crisis is reaching a point of no return. Social inequality has been exposed like never before with the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. […]

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What Cargill workers want

paultran — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 19:09:04 +0000

At the site of a massive COVID-19 outbreak at a meat-processing plant in southern Alberta, workers don’t want things to go back the way they were before. On a cold, windy November day, Freddy Vasquez cuts a small figure as the massive Cargill meat-processing plant near High River, Alta., looms behind him. "Now hiring," reads […]

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Cop26: Youth Climate report

paultran — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 22:48:44 +0000

In the morning, the project Youth Climate Report work was presented. - an interactive documentary film project with a digital map showing over 400 videos of climate research produced by young people from all over the world. The Youth Climate Report is an interactive documentary film project that has been going on since 2011. Where young […]

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Kean Birch: Big Tech poses challenges our outdated competition laws were not designed to address

paultran — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 22:57:24 +0000

Those who think competition law does not need to be updated to address the harms caused by Big Tech fundamentally misunderstand the nature of the high-tech giants Author of the article: Kean Birch, Special to National Post Publishing date: Nov 29, 2021 Everywhere we look around the world, competition policy and laws are being redrawn […]

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How Ontario's cities can help address climate change and meet COP26 agreement goals

paultran — Wed, 24 Nov 2021 17:00:37 +0000

In the days since nearly 200 countries signed on to a deal at COP26 in Scotland, experts in Toronto say cities and municipalities have an important role to play in addressing climate change. Nick Westoll reports. Interview with Prof Mark Winfield. By Nick Westoll Posted Nov 20, 2021, 9:06PM EST. It’s been a week since an agreement was […]

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91��ɫ instructor Mark Terry’s new documentary to screen at COP26

paultran — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:35:34 +0000

91��ɫ contract faculty member Mark Terry’s new documentary film, The Changing Face of Iceland, will screen at the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland, on Nov. 4. The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has selected The Changing Face of Iceland, the third instalment in Terry’s trilogy of polar documentaries focusing on the […]

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5 ways Norway leads and Canada lags on climate action

paultran — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:49:52 +0000

As major oil and gas producers and exporters, Norway and Canada share a particular responsibility for confronting the planet’s existential climate threat. However, their different political, economic and cultural features have resulted in major differences in their climate policy track records. Overall, Norway is a leader on climate change performance and Canada is a laggard. The 2021 Climate […]

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