President Joe Biden has his work cut out for him – besides domestic terrorism and a raging pandemic, he also has to find a way to deal with a country riven by Donald Trump’s presidency. In his first speech as president Biden acknowledged that the fissures exposed and exploited by Trump were not created by the former president, but that:
“The forces that divide us are deep and they are real… racism, nativism, fear, demonisation… ” He also mentioned “extremism” as one of the wrongs America has to overcome.
While he may need more than his soul to help his country work through this morass of isms, he may well get the support he needs from a variety of sources. It will, however, be a hard slog to pull together a nation so fractured that some people felt their best chance at democracy was a riot, on 6 January.
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Canada s Environmental Racism Continues Five Years After the Paris Agreement
And the world feels its effects
Magazine cover on Canadian Mining Impacts and Resistance Movements by the Mining Justice Alliance. Photo by Mildred German
Unceded Territories | A Recent UN report indicates that not a single member nation is on track to keep their Paris Agreement / Accord de Paris goals. This not only exposes the world to the dreadful reality of climate change but suggests that the efforts and funds used to address it over the years have been, by and large, ineffective.
The report also underscores Canada’s own failures on its climate change goals. And despite ongoing multiple warnings of the irreversible impacts of climate change, Canada has caught the world’s attention with its controversial mega-projects such as the Trans Mountain (TMX) Pipeline, the CGL Pipeline, and the Site C Dam. Reports of Canada violating Indigen