Canada won’t restrict trade with Bangladesh after factory collapse
Canada has signalled that it will not, like the U.S., move to hamper trade with Bangladesh as a result of a recent factory collapse that killed over a thousand garment workers in April. Meeting in...
View ArticleFrench nuclear tests ‘showered’ Polynesia with radioactivity
Declassified papers show hidden extent of nuclear test fall-out: French paper. from The Guardian "French nuclear tests in the South Pacific in the 1960s and 1970s were far more toxic than has been...
View ArticleClimate change could be leading to more El Niños
One study finds El Niño patterns dovetailed with global warming last year. from grist "El Niño is one of Earth’s most influential climatic phenomena. Its occasional arrival, heralded by warming in...
View ArticleTailings dump at Red Chris Mine raises questions
More work needed to understand potential impacts of waste storage, industry-funded review finds. from The Tyee "More work is required before anyone knows how an estimated 300-million tonnes of tailings...
View ArticleCalifornia teachers suing to end mandatory union dues
Lawsuit says mandatory dues force teachers to subsidize expenditures and collective bargaining activities. from Digital Journal "Ten teachers and the Christian Educators Association International have...
View ArticleIncreasing levels of nitrogen, CO2 have hurt biodiversity: study
Researchers conclude loss of biodiversity has had greater impact on ecoystems than imagined. from Science Daily "Humans have been affecting their environment since the ancestors of Homo sapiens first...
View ArticleUSW responds to Lac-Mégantic tragedy
Seventy-five MM&A workers belong to Steelworkers union. from United Steelworkers MONTREAL – In the aftermath of the train fire in Nantes and the devastating explosion in Lac-Mégantic, the United...
View ArticleUnions had warned of risks of one-person rail crews
Rail shipment of petroleum products soars in Canada and US. 11 July 2013 | Bloomberg By Jim Efstathiou Jr. and Angela Greiling Keane The train hauling millions of gallons of crude oil that slammed...
View ArticleFormer teachers’ union pres trounced in London byelection
from London Free Press After a 10-year Liberal-rouge run, the riding was won Thursday night by New Democrat Peggy Sattler in a lopsided byelection battle that’s left the NDP as London’s dominant...
View Article“Charitable” Fraser Institute accepted $500k in foreign funding from Koch oil...
From Vancouver Observer In four years alone, U.S. Tea Party architects the Koch brothers poured half a million dollars into Canadian right-wing think tank, the Fraser Institute. Full story
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