Workers in Canada’s oil and gas industry won’t be able to escape the sector’s coming collapse regardless of the fossil fuel boosterism from politicians in Ottawa and Alberta.
That’s according to new research from the Centre for Future Work, which found that concerns about fossil fuel employment “have been weaponized by industry” to prevent or delay policies to reduce oil and gas production and use.
The world’s axis of rotation has shifted. America is no longer able to provide leadership in global discourse and guidance. US President Donald Trump has effectively sidelined America. China’s hard-earned, multi-decade focus on economic success and global acquisition of resources and critical minerals has accelerated its geopolitical ascendance.
BC hoped expanding Trans Mountain would be an alternative to a new pipeline. Instead both are possible.
With public attention focused on a proposed bitumen pipeline to British Columbia’s northwest coast, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith let drop that Premier David Eby had told her he agreed to a different proposal to expand oil shipments through B.C.
As oil and gas companies drill and frack more wells in British Columbia than ever, they are using record quantities of water while frequently not paying the province for that resource, a new report warns.
Raw log exports, capital flight and shuttered mills signal the fall of BC’s forestry sector.
The provincial Conservatives wasted no time calling for Forests Minister Ravi Parmar’s head this week after Domtar announced it would soon shutter its Crofton pulp mill.
The case’s outcome could affect the founders’ criminal charges, and Canadian drug laws. A Tyee explainer.
Drug User Liberation Front founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum are back in court arguing their compassion club members’ constitutional rights were violated by part of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.
The government will also continue funding some pandemic wage increases.
A Hospital Employees’ Union official said Monday that an agreement with the British Columbia government to bring some 5,000 workers at 100 care homes back into the sector’s main bargaining unit is a win for the union and seniors.