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Every 20 minutes, Canada’s private jets emit more carbon pollution than the average Canadian does in a year
New Oxfam report lands days before the November 5 federal budget, a year after Ottawa ended the luxury tax on private planes. In 2025, 71,239 private jet flights left Canada, emitting more than 333,000 tonnes of CO2. In 11 minutes, those jets emitted more CO2 than someone in the poorest half of Canada’s population emits…
REACTION: Israeli large-scale military operation and mass displacement in Hebron
Responding to the large-scale Israeli military operation and mass displacement in Hebron in recent days, Oxfam’s Response Lead in the West Bank, Mustafa Tamaizeh, said: “This is not only a humanitarian crisis but a deliberate assault on the economic foundations of Palestinian life, as families lose their homes and livelihoods. The destruction of factories, workshops,…
Humanitarian funding to El Niño critically insufficient, says Oxfam
Global funding for the preparation and response to El Niño and the harms it will bring to millions of people is critically insufficient, Oxfam warned today. The weather phenomenon is already having a catastrophic impact across much of the world, with wildfires, crop failures and growing severe food and water insecurity. El Niño’s intensity is…
Joint Letter to Prime Minister Carney on the United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
Re: United Nations International Day for the Eradication of Poverty Dear Prime Minister Carney, We are writing to you on the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, a day that reminds us that ending poverty is inseparable from protecting human rights, dignity, and social inclusion, and that commitments to eradicate poverty must be matched…