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While there are thankfully an increasing number of serious books proposing what can be done to actually meet the scale of the crisis we face (including Seth Klein’s A Good War and Max Ajl’s A People’s Green New Deal), it is still worth giving a nod to the essential works that expose the forces holding us back from climate action in Canada—especially because these works get little attention from mainstream media.

The voices and concerns of developing countries in the UN, collectively referred to as the “Global South”, prioritise peace, security, and development. These objectives require an integrated framework for international cooperation, with the Global...

The Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate (ILT) has rejected over a fifth of the decorative fireworks it tested before they could be sold to consumers. This concerns 20.5 percent of tested fireworks from the F2 category, such as cakes, barrages, ground bloom flowers, fountains, rockets and compound boxes. Roughly the same percentage failed inspection last year.

Dutch people are not expected to purchase as many fireworks this year as last year, when a record was set for the amount of revenue the sales generated. Through Friday, consumers had ordered about as many fireworks online compared to a year earlier, said Leo Groeneveld, the chair of Dutch pyrotechnic association BPN. He revised that on Wednesday, saying he doubts whether the sales record of 2022 will be achieved.

The number of incidents with aggressive or disruptive passengers aboard planes was 38 percent higher this spring than a year ago. And that is despite the absence of the endless lines that plagued Schiphol Airport in the spring of 2022, De Telegraaf reports based on figures from the Human Environment and Transport Inspectorate.