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Stefan is away this week so instead it is our pleasure to have the co-host chair filled by the one and only Rob Shirkey, The Executive Director from Our Horizon. Rob and Daryn spend the first part of the program talking about the breaking news this week that Trudeau has flashed the green light for a massive liquid natural gas pipeline through British Columbia that the local liberal government has been fighting for as an election promise. The real question is, how do we square this approval with the election promises of Trudeau himself with regards to climate and First Nations sovereignty which are at best in conflict and at worst reveal dishonesty with this project from the outset. This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes at www.greenmajority.ca We are 100% member supported and need your help! Please check out our Patreon page to learn more: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Inherent flaws in our corporate regulation, and the fake outrage from the US Congress about excessive profits by companies like Mylan (Epipen Manufacturer) and Turing Pharmaceuticals (Martin Shkreli) despite the fact that this is precisely the behaviour our corporate laws are designed to incentivize. We discuss this with reference to the increasing coverage and litigation of and against Exxon. This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes at www.greenmajority.ca We are 100% member supported and need your help! Please check out our Patreon page to learn more: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Barbora Grochalova an Environmental Lawyer in Ontario joins us to talk about the joining of Ontario to the Western Climate Initiate that already includes California and Quebec to participate on climate credit trading. This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes at www.greenmajority.ca We are 100% member supported and need your help! Please check out our Patreon page to learn more: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Daryn and Stefan dig into the ongoing National Energy Board scandals, with completely legitimate mistrust and skepticism about their independence and unbiased perspective on pipeline issues. This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes at www.greenmajority.ca We are 100% member supported and need your help! Please check out our Patreon page to learn more: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Stefan leads us in a game of 'Pope or Marxist.com' with new statements by the Pope on the social ills of greed and the moral obligation to care for the environment. Stefan also provides a brief update on the Dakota Pipeline story and the indigenous people from all over the country coming to join the resistance to the 'Keystone XL 2.0'. This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes at www.greenmajority.ca We are 100% member supported and need your help! Please check out our Patreon page to learn more: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

We begin the show with an update on the Nestle water controversy, which could see Ontario sell it's water to the private corp for a pathetic $3.71 per MILLION litres. Atiya Jaffar, Digital Organizer for 350 Canada takes the lead to discuss the ongoing story of the Husky Energy disaster in Saskatchewan, and an update on the ongoing protests in the USA with the Dakota First Nations over the Dakota Access Pipeline. Daryn hosts a review of the criticism surrounding BC's new 'Carbon Plan' which was immediately and entirely blasted by scientists and ENGO's for doing basically nothing to achieve meaningful policy or goals for future policy. This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes at www.greenmajority.ca We are 100% member supported and need your help! Please check out our Patreon page to learn more: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

The Green Party may soon be having to reinvent itself with Elizabeth May possibly stepping down as leader next week over a party vote on the Boycott Israel campaign. Digging into the Israel boycott issue itself is outside the scope of our program, but the May angle is very important for politics in Canada. Whether it was her intention or not many people would argue that Ms. May has been more than just the leader of the Greens but rather their sole political product since she took over. Despite the undeniably positive effect of her advocacy in parliament, has she ended up being a liability to the Green Party itself? Guest host Bethany Koughan, local activist and occasional Green Party volunteer discusses. This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes at www.greenmajority.ca We are 100% member supported and need your help! Please check out our Patreon page to learn more: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

We start close to home this week with a conversation about energy efficiency standards and the reason we don't have nice things. We then spend a min talking about the pathetic attempts by oil company funded astroturf groups to garner support by trying to sell it with sex to straight males. This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes: http://www.greenmajority.ca/the-podcast/2016/8/12/feelings-vs-facts-515 We are 100% member supported and need your help! Please check out our Patreon page to learn more: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

We start with a critique of conservative ideology and credibility on the issue of climate change and cap and trade. Follows is Rosemary Frei talking about her decision to retire and become a full time activist. Rosemary tells us about her experience walking Gaspe to protest fracking projects in Quebec. Finally the team discusses some alarming news of Anthrax and secret military bases full of radiation and toxic waste being unearthed by melting permafrost. This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2016/08/05/disillusioned-conservatives-apply-within-514/ We are 100% member supported and need your help! Please check out our Patreon page to learn more: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

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Green Majority regular contributor and finance expert Tim Nash the sustainable economist joins us this week for a segment on the concept of a global "Robinhood Tax" and how this idea could address the vast wealth inequality all over the world, climate change and basically all the other big-ticket global problems all in one go. But you know, start small right? :) This is not a new idea, nor is it crazy... in fact it's already been proposed on a smaller scale in some countries and policies similar to this are already in place. Bonus Show! Deirdre and Daryn talk about ferrets and gene editing (part 2 of a discussion from last week) and Pokemon Go (yes really) and it's very real relevance to modern environmental impacts. If you think this is silly or not relevant, sorry! Your wrong :) Listen in on the podcast to find out why! This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2016/07/22/robinhood-and-the-united-nations-512/ We are 100% member sup

We start the show this week with some Canadian news. Well, it's actually only news to some people who haven't been paying attention. Also, some are upset that the Green Party is OK with pipelines as long as the oil is refined in Canada... This is actually not a new position, but it's getting some new attention and the hosts discuss. After the break, we discuss some international news mainly US elections and politics including the lip-fluttering nonsense in the Republican draft platform. This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2016/07/15/pentagon-is-freaking-out-arent-you-511/ We are 100% member supported and need your help! Please check out our Patreon page to learn more: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

We attempt this week to start with the worst news and get better throughout to try to leave you with some hope. But as this weeks title tells you, hope isn't a strategy (that will make sense later). Lot's of news this week including breaking news about an entire lake disappearing due to climate change in Bolivia, a rush of lobbying by mining companies on the Canadian Gov, and an expose on how to evade lobbying laws in Canada. Insects are dying, and yes that's bad... but at least we got a divestment win! This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/hope-isnt-a-strategy-510/ We are 100% member supported and need your help! Please check out our Patreon page to learn more: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

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The breaking news today is of course the stunning #brexit vote in the UK meaning it will leave the EU, and this presents a very real possibility that the entire EU will break apart. Between Trump, Bernie Sanders, the brexit vote, the various "springs" around the world etc etc etc. One thing is certain, people are pissed and are lashing out whether or not this is a disaster, or the flames before a great rebirth we will simply have to wait and see but it is undeniable the entire world is going through some giant lurching changes right now. The team discusses the political and environmental implications of this vote and the possible repercussions all over the world. This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show notes: https://greenmajoritymedia.wordpress.com/2016/06/24/burn-this-puppy-down-brexit-508/ We are 100% member supported and need your help! Please check out our Patreon page to learn more: www.patreon.com/greenmajority

Peabody Energy is a massive coal company that recently filed for bankruptcy, and during these proceedings has revealed the monumental degree to which this company was funding public deception and political lobbying around science denial regarding climate change. The question is, was this a lone wolf? A bad actor? Or the norm. In the middle of the program we take a bit of a break from the heavy news to chat with Toronto's music station voice from CHUM FM for the last 40 years Ingrid Schumacher. Ingrid talks about her thoughts on how Toronto has grown up in the last 40 years, animal cruelty and her ability to use her giant microphone to talk about important issues of the day as a music programmer. Finally Stefan and Daryn can't NOT mention the horrific shooting over the weekend, Stefan was already writing a piece about activism in the age of global terror, and so we preview that with some comments about recent events at the end of the program. This is just a brief! Please check the website here for full show

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