Many immigrants forced into hiding are still unable to work and facing rent hikes. Aid money is drying up.
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Alberta’s Wonder Valley artificial intelligence (AI) data centre and nine-gigawatt power plant will be “one of the largest single-site heat sources on the planet” when fully operational, warns a Utah State University physicist commissioned to assess the project.
The cost of federal inaction for Canadians feeling the impacts of extreme weather took centre stage at a national summit on Thursday, as city leaders demanded climate-forward investment.
As balcony solar systems gain traction across Europe and parts of the United States, a Calgary-based coalition is pushing for regulatory changes to make small, plug-in solar systems easier to adopt in Canada.
Two Utah lawmakers are walking back their once unbridled support for celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary’s Stratos Project, a proposed 9-gigawatt artificial intelligence (AI) data centre near the Great Salt Lake, as opposition grows and a midterm election approaches.
A partnership between a Port Alberni-based housing construction startup and a local college is poised to provide dozens of full-time manufacturing jobs and thousands of new energy-efficient, low-embodied carbon homes per year, in and around the former forestry town.
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Americans ain’t puttin’ up with these things no more. Welcome to Virginia, ground zero for data center defiance.
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A proposed C$10-billion artificial intelligence data centre and power plant complex in Olds, Alberta, has sparked more registered intervenors than any utility project in the province’s recent history, according to a veteran regulator.
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At the National Public Housing Museum in Chicago, the past is alive and fighting.
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You don’t need to scrap planning and zoning to get abundant and affordable housing. In fact, planning and zoning can help get housing built.
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Shareholders are seeking more info about how the companies collect and share data, including automatic license plate readers that cops and federal agents use to hunt immigrants.
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Buoyed by billions in assistance from the state, real talk about what it takes to run New York City, and some taxes on the rich, the mayor closed a historic leftover budget deficit.
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The Republican redistrictings strip cities of congressional representation.
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The infamous prison was closed two years ago following revelations of rampant sexual abuse.
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Unions join community groups in planning marches, walkouts and economic actions on May 1 as a show of worker power ahead of the midterm elections.
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The mayor, his supporters, and public opinion convinced their previously reluctant governor to agree to a tax on the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) homes of their city’s nonresident rich.
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To help pay for his war of choice with Iran, Trump wants to zero out funding for energy assistance and efficiency programs. But it’s not the first time he’s tried to dismantle them.
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Maintaining the momentum of Zohran Mamdani’s historically successful election campaign has meant doing the little things right.
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As the surge in Minneapolis winds down, small communities in Minnesota (like Willmar) fend off more arrests and lasting impacts.
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The provider will be on the ground floor of the Dinkins Municipal Building, and is another step on the road to a free, universal program citywide.
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A new bill would prohibit the money grabs that billionaire team owners unleash to pit states and cities against each other in bidding wars over potential moves.
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Local health system urged to adopt clear protocols to ensure that patients are protected from ICE agents as immigrants delay and avoid care.
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The Alberta government is admitting that it won’t likely recover $250 million in property taxes that oil and gas companies owe rural municipalities, even though it hopes to get the problem under control in future.
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H.R. 7640 would require state and local police departments to help federal agents carry out their mass deportation drive. Democrats used a states' rights argument to say why that’s bogus.
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Princeton’s Sanyu Mojola examines the public-health issues confronting America’s capital city.
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Trump’s masked kidnappers are recreating the effects of the COVID pandemic in miniature.
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The announcement of ICE’s withdrawal from Minnesota, like that of the British from Boston 250 years ago, marks a victory for people power.
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There are lots of examples where sports isn’t dictated by oligarch whims at everyone else’s expense.
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The only community-owned franchise in America’s major sports leagues is a legacy of football’s past.
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Novel public ownership models have kept minor league baseball franchises anchored in communities.
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