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National Observer
08-07-2025
- Politics
- National Observer
How a Canadian climate activist came to believe ‘We're going to need a bigger treaty'
The Takeover has taken you inside two right-wing conferences where politicians, influencers and billionaires are openly plotting to dismantle climate policy and cut environmental regulations, while expanding the production of oil, gas and coal. The US is leading the charge with President Trump's 'drill baby drill' policies that ignore the Paris Agreement's net-zero goals and embolden the fossil fuel industry's disinformation. In this episode we look at an international non-profit group that is working from the ground up to fight against 'drill baby drill' and put in place a treaty that will force the fossil fuel industry to stop producing oil and gas. The leader of this movement is a Canadian woman, Tzeporah Berman, who felt compelled to act when she realized that the Paris Agreement did not even mention oil, gas and coal. The landmark agreement was signed in 2015 by nearly every country in the world with a goal of limiting global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Tzeporah couldn't figure out why oil, gas and coal wouldn't be mentioned when they are responsible for more than 86 per cent of carbon emissions. ' And then I started realizing, 'Oh my God, we're all playing into their hands.' They want it to be about emissions and net zero and offsets, et cetera. Like the tobacco industry before them, they just want us to not constrain their product from growing,' said Tzeporah Berman. From there she came to believe that the Paris Agreement wasn't enough to force the end to the production of oil, gas and coal — and that a whole new treaty would be needed with the explicit goal of constraining fossil fuels if the world were to actually avert the disaster the Paris Agreement is intended to address. As a long time environmental activist who worked as a Greenpeace campaigner against clear-cut logging in British Columbia and pipelines in the Alberta Tar Sands, Berman believed protesting alone would not bring change fast enough. What do you do when the world's biggest climate treaty ignores fossil fuels? Create your own. Check out episode 6 of The Takeover with Tzeporah Berman. Listen and leave a review on your favourite podcasting apps. 'Even today in government, there's this idea that there's nothing wrong with building more fossil fuel infrastructure as long as we have a plan to reduce our emissions,' said Berman. As she analyzed treaties – the Montreal Accord that saved the ozone layer, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Ottawa Treaty which banned land mines, she decided that's what was needed to stop the fossil fuel industry. That's episode six, The Treaty.
National Observer
08-07-2025
- Politics
- National Observer
How a Canadian climate activist came to believe, ‘We're going to need a bigger treaty'
The Takeover has taken you inside two right-wing conferences where politicians, influencers and billionaires are openly plotting to dismantle climate policy and cut environmental regulations, while expanding the production of oil, gas and coal. The US is leading the charge with President Trump's 'drill baby drill' policies that ignore the Paris Agreement's net-zero goals and embolden the fossil fuel industry's disinformation. In this episode, we look at an international non-profit group that is working from the ground up to fight against 'drill baby drill' and put in place a treaty that will force the fossil fuel industry to stop producing oil and gas. The leader of this movement is a Canadian woman, Tzeporah Berman, who felt compelled to act when she realized that the Paris Agreement did not even mention oil, gas and coal. The landmark agreement was signed in 2015 by nearly every country in the world with a goal of limiting global warming to below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Berman couldn't figure out why oil, gas and coal wouldn't be mentioned when they are responsible for more than 86 per cent of carbon emissions. ' And then I started realizing, 'Oh my God, we're all playing into their hands.' They want it to be about emissions and net-zero and offsets, et cetera. Like the tobacco industry before them, they just want us to not constrain their product from growing,' said Berman. From there, she came to believe that the Paris Agreement wasn't enough to force an end to the production of oil, gas and coal — and that a whole new treaty would be needed with the explicit goal of constraining fossil fuels if the world were to actually avert the disaster the Paris Agreement is intended to address. As a long-time environmental activist who worked as a Greenpeace campaigner against clear-cut logging in British Columbia and pipelines in the Alberta tar sands, Berman believed protesting alone would not bring change fast enough. In this episode of The Takeover, we look at an international non-profit group that is working from the ground up to fight against 'drill baby drill' and put in place a treaty that will force the fossil fuel industry to stop producing oil and gas. 'Even today in government, there's this idea that there's nothing wrong with building more fossil fuel infrastructure as long as we have a plan to reduce our emissions,' she said. As she analyzed treaties — the Montreal Accord that saved the ozone layer, the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and the Ottawa Treaty which banned land mines, she decided what was needed to stop the fossil fuel industry. That's episode six, The Treaty.
Yahoo
05-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Boxing news: Devin Haney accuses Teofimo Lopez of ‘ducking' after rumored fight talks fell apart
Although their rivalry has carried steam for years, Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez won't settle it inside the ring anytime soon. There were reportedly recent talks for a fight at a catchweight of 145 pounds for Aug. 16 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Those plans have seemingly gone down the drain, and 'The Dream' wasted no time setting things straight over the failed fight negotiations on X. Advertisement Related: Devin Haney next fight – 3 opponent options for 'The Dream's' return to the ring 'The fight with Teo is not signed! I signed my part & Teo has been stalling,' he wrote. 'As of today, he has decided he doesn't wanna fight me. He is officially the biggest 🦆👎🏽 🍅.' There was an apparent disagreement over the weight, as Haney stated in a separate post that he wanted the fight contested at 147 pounds. Lopez, however, eyed the clash in his natural weight division of 140 pounds, where he is the current WBO champion. Therefore, the catchweight of 145 pounds was reportedly agreed to. Devin Haney and Teofimo Lopez were each other's backup plan after other fight fell through Haney (32-0, 15 KOs) scored a unanimous decision win over Josè Ramirez in his welterweight debut on May 2. The two-division champion wasn't his sharpest, as it was his first time returning to action following a one-year hiatus. The victory put Haney in a position for a rematch with Ryan Garcia later this fall. A man he has had bad blood with since their first meeting in April 2024. Advertisement Even though Garcia suffered an upset unanimous decision loss against Rolando Romero for the vacant WBA welterweight title in the headliner of the same card, the fight was still considered. That became less likely now, after 'King Ry' had surgery on his right hand last week. Lopez (22-1, 13 KOs) cruised to a unanimous decision win against Arnold Barboza Jr., in the opening bout of the Ring Magazine card in Times Square. It was his third successful defense of the WBO title, after he dethroned Josh Taylor for the championship belt in his 140-pound debut in June 2023. Following his win, 'The Takeover' called out unified welterweight champion Jaron Ennis, who holds the IBF and WBA titles. In a recent video on social media, Lopez expressed his disappointment as he stated 'Boots' and his team turned down a potential fight. The feud between Lopez and Haney dates back to their time at lightweight, where they have each taken jabs at each other through social media, and even had a tense altercation in the stands ringside in 2021. Advertisement Also Read:: Ryan Garcia next fight: 3 opponents options for 'King Ry's' return, including Devin Haney Related Headlines
National Observer
24-04-2025
- Politics
- National Observer
Back in Canada
Episode five of The Takeover podcast is Back in Canada. Just weeks after the ARC conference in London, U.K., Canada's conservatives held their annual networking gathering in Ottawa. The ARC conference was full of speakers who talked about the need to tear down the government, get rid of net-zero and change education and culture to eliminate woke culture. Mike Johnson, the U.S. Republican House leader spoke by video link to ARC. He described the problem as 'soft despotism'. 'This kind of despotism doesn't arrive through violence or open tyranny. Instead, it comes quietly, insidiously, through comfort and convenience,' Johnson said. And that comfort and convenience, according to Johnson captures people. 'Soft despots ensure your compliance through normal democratic channels regulations. Oh, they keep you safe. Censorship. That's to protect you from misinformation. Surveillance that's necessary for your security.' The Canada Strong and Free Network brought together 500 people in the middle of an election campaign with the theme, 'Turn Ideas into Action'. But with most of the power brokers busy with the election it is was left to provincial conservatives like Premier Scott Moe, John Rustad, Jason Kenney and Premier Danielle Smith to generate the ideas to turn into action. As soon as Mark Carney became Prime Minister, Danielle Smith gave him a list of demands for Alberta in the trade war with the U.S. At the conference she had another list – a list of regulations to get rid of. 'From the no more pipelines bill, to the tanker ban off the west coast, we've got net-zero power regs, net-zero building codes, net-zero vehicles, emissions caps on oil and gas and everything in-between; a plastics ban, don't we all want to have single-use plastics back again,' Smith said. A panel on government waste suggested Elon Musk's DOGE approach to cutting government could be a guide for a new Conservative government. 'None of the great legal tactics against Doge can be used here. There's no reason why we can't move more quickly, 'said Ian Brodie, a professor from the University of Calgary who was chief of staff to former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Tim Sargent of the right-wing MacDonald Laurier Institute had a suggestion for managing the politics of cutting. 'Well, you go in hard and fast, and you cut groups at the same time as you're doing all kinds of other policy changes that they're going to dislike, so they won't know which way to where to look,' he said.
Washington Post
18-03-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
2025 Overseas Press Club honors for The Post
We're pleased to share that The Post has won two awards and earned one runner-up citation at the 2025 Overseas Press Club Awards. The Post's coverage of Gaza has won the inaugural Shireen Abu Akleh Award for innovative reporting, previously known as the Continuing Coverage of Conflict Award, introduced last year to honor the best reporting on a continuing international conflict or crisis in any medium. The Post's Middle East team, together with colleagues in our Visual Forensics and Rapid Response Investigations teams, along with graphics, video, photo and design, spent a year reporting on Israeli tactics in Gaza and their human toll — advancing new investigative methods to cover the conflict from the outside in and delivering a series of essential, accountability-driven stories. Post reporters quantified Israel's systematic destruction of the enclave, revealed how the military was laying the groundwork for long-term occupation, delved into the motivations of its soldiers and interrogated the high-profile killings of journalists and other civilians. The OPC judges said the coverage was 'vividly conveyed and assiduously reported. The Washington Post tore at official narratives through accountability journalism that centered the human costs of Israel's war in Gaza. The package is a masterclass of innovative, rigorous and empathetic storytelling.' Earning a win in the Robert Spiers Benjamin Award was 'The Takeover' for the best reporting in any medium on Latin America. In early 2024, The Post reported on how the Galápagos Islands, the UNESCO World Heritage site, was being pulled into the booming drug trade consuming much of Latin America. As the piece was being finalized, Ecuador nearly collapsed in a paroxysm of gang violence that led President Daniel Noboa to declare: 'We are in a state of war.' Over the course of 2024, beginning with a detailed reconstruction of what happened during Ecuador's near implosion on Jan. 9, 2024, The Post has examined the expanding power of criminal gangs in Latin America. 'The Takeover' is a revelatory, deeply reported and gripping series on the transformation of organized crime and how its growth is undermining democracy and fomenting violence in every corner of the continent, including the most remote parts of the Amazon. 'The series took readers across Latin America to show how criminal gangs have seized control of growing swaths of societies, undermined democratic rule and fomented violence in nearly every corner of the region.' The judges said. 'Post reporters used vividly drawn characters to illustrate a changing landscape of drug and human trafficking, extortion and environmental crime.' The Post series 'Repression's Long Arm' earned a runner-up citation in the William Worthy Award, which recognizes the best newspaper, news service or digital interpretation of international affairs. This series is the most comprehensive and illuminating investigation to date of the growing willingness of governments to crush dissidents, asylum seekers and journalists seeking refuge abroad. The series shows how countries with democratic traditions, including India and Turkey, are embracing violence and intimidation against dissidents in exile. And The Post unearthed new evidence that the world's most autocratic regimes are expanding and refining their repressive tactics. Please join us in congratulating our all those who contributed to each of these deeply reported and revelatory series. The Shireen Abu Akleh Award for best reporting on a continuing international conflict or crisis in any medium: · Revenge, fire and destruction: A year of Israeli soldiers' videos from Gaza · Gaza's uncounted dead · The long road to reconstruction · What Israel's strategic corridor in Gaza reveals about its postwar plans · Israel is demolishing northern Gaza and fortifying military positions, imagery shows · Palestinian paramedics said Israel gave them safe passage to save a 6-year-old girl in Gaza. They were all killed. · Drone footage raises questions about Israeli justification for deadly strike on Gaza journalists The Robert Spiers Benjamin Award for the best reporting in any medium on Latin America: · How drug traffickers made the Galápagos Islands their gas station · A narco revolt takes a once-peaceful nation to the brink · How Mexico's cartels infiltrated the tortilla business · A double life: The cocaine kingpin who hid as a professional soccer player · As a trafficker pursued dreams of soccer glory, investigators closed in · As smuggling rings made billions from migrants, the U.S. was sidelined · South America's most dangerous gang invades the Amazon forest · A global boom in cocaine trafficking defies decades of anti-drug efforts · A South American waterway become a cocaine superhighway – to Europe The William Worthy Award for the best newspaper, news service, newsletter or digital interpretation of international affairs: · An assassination plot on American soil reveals a darker side of Modi's India · In India's shadow war with Pakistan, a campaign of covert killings · A plot in paradise and India's struggle for influence in Asia · How China extended its repression into an American city · He thought he had escaped Beijing's clutches only to vanish back into China · Iran turns to Hells Angels and other criminal gangs to target critics · Turkey exploits post-9/11 counterterrorism model to target critics in exile · They fled in fear from a U.S. ally. 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