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Priyanka Vittal and Jesse Firempong: Big Oil's climate cop-out | Georgia Straight Vancouver's News & Entertainment Weekly

Priyanka Vittal and Jesse Firempong: Big Oil’s climate cop-out
How Canada s fossil fuel giants are buying influence with police departments to do their dirty work in pipeline fights on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border
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By Priyanka Vittal and Jesse Firempong
For sci-fi writers, worldbuilding often means dreaming up the vivid and terrifying settings where dystopian stories unfold. In 2021 amid a global pandemic, however, dystopia is a matter of perspective.
As the coronavirus drives this year’s Earth Day events indoors, the chilling effects of climate change have never been clearer. ....

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Earth Day Issue: Big Oil's climate cop-out

Earth Day Issue: Big Oil’s climate cop-out
How Canada s fossil fuel giants are buying influence with police departments to do their dirty work in pipeline fights on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border
By Priyanka Vittal and Jesse Firempong
Apr 22, 2021
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For sci-fi writers, worldbuilding often means dreaming up the vivid and terrifying settings where dystopian stories unfold. In 2021 amid a global pandemic, however, dystopia is a matter of perspective.
As the coronavirus drives this year’s Earth Day events indoors, the chilling effects of climate change have never been clearer.
Black, brown and Indigenous peoples among us were already confronting nightmarish realities before COVID-19: acts of environmental racism and violence to protect a dying oil and gas industry’s profits. ....

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Robyn Maynard: Canada's political class is ignoring public opinion on defunding police

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Robyn Maynard: Canada’s political class is ignoring public opinion on defunding police
The Toronto-based author recently assembled a community resource document outlining strategies to defund police forces
By Charlie Smith
Writer Robyn Maynard says political policy is lagging behind public opinion on defunding the police.
When we reached author, Black feminist and police defunding advocate Robyn Maynard by phone, the first question concerned the Vancouver police board’s budget fight with the elected city council.
The police board, which is mostly made up of provincial government appointees, has refused to accept a budget freeze from council, arguing that it amounts to a reduction because of higher wage costs. ....

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Author Robyn Maynard says Canada's political class is ignoring sea change in public opinion on defunding police

Author Robyn Maynard says Canada's political class is ignoring sea change in public opinion on defunding police
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'Anti-Black racism is a crisis': U of T scholar imagines a freer society

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‘Anti-Black racism is a crisis’: U of T scholar imagines a freer society
Robyn Maynard, a PhD candidate at U of T s Women and Gender Studies Institute, has studied – and participated in – social movements committed to Black and Indigenous liberation for more than a decade (photo by Stacy Lee Photography)
For scholars and activists like
Robyn Maynard, our current reckoning with anti-Black racism is long overdue – and not just in the United States.
The protests that erupted around the world following George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police last year also served to raise awareness of anti-Black racism and structural inequities in Canada, a country that has long celebrated its multicultural approach. ....

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