Canada

Neither ‘Biofuel’ Nor Nuclear Will Solve Our Energy Problems

16/07/25
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
Link: 
The Tyee
A memorial to schoolchildren killed in the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 stands next to silos used to store wood pellets at a new thermal electricity plant in Sendai. Photo submitted.

July 16, 2025

From Borneo to Japan to BC, the effects are clear. And the solution is something entirely different.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Energy
Forestry
Global
Indigenous Peoples
Industry Spin
Nuclear
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Canadians' Democratic Planning Would Beat Trump

13/07/25
Author: 
Sam Gindin
Link: 
The Bullet
‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call

July 13, 2025 

‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call

An all-too predictable pattern has emerged in US-Canada relations. US President Donald Trump makes Canada ‘an offer it can’t refuse’. What follows is a national gnashing of teeth, flag-waving, businesses and politicians going patriotic. The Canadian government then caves, lamenting we had ‘no choice’.

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Canada
Capitalism
Climate Change
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Labour - Unions
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There's always money for the military. But climate?

11/07/25
Author: 
Seth Klein
Link: 
National Observer
Prime Minister Mark Carney holds a closing press conference following the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Photo by: Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press

July 9, 2025

I have spent the past five years arguing that we need a “wartime” approach to confront the climate crisis. It seems metaphor is not our government’s strong suit – their imagination for a wartime approach is limited to, well, war.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Canada
Climate Change
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Global
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Oil - Pipelines
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As Carney Redraws the Political Map, Where Do New Democrats Go?

10/07/25
Author: 
Karyn Pugliese
Link: 
The Tyee
Cartoon by Greg Perry.

July 10, 2025

The PM’s spurning of the NDP could generate energy for angered progressive movements.

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Canada
Climate Change
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Indigenous Peoples
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NDP Election Debacle Could Bankrupt Party

10/07/25
Author: 
Fred DeLorey
Link: 
The Hub
Why the NDP may be in even bigger trouble than we think

July 9, 2025

Why the NDP may be in even bigger trouble than we think

Behind the party’s collapse lies a financial and legal time bomb

Most people think the New Democratic Party’s 2025 election disaster ended on election night. It didn’t. The real fallout is still coming, and it could cripple the party for good.

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Canada
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The Fight Over Seabed Mining Comes to Vancouver

08/07/25
Author: 
Kristen de Jager
Link: 
The Tyee
An environmental group is asking Ottawa to continue to support an international moratorium on commercial seabed mining in areas beyond national jurisdiction. Illustration via WWF.

July 7, 2025

Protesters rallied against a Canadian company that aims to lead in deep-sea minerals extraction.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Canada
Ecology/Environment
Fisheries
Global
Industry Spin
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Shooting Down Carney’s Faulty NATO Pledge

08/07/25
Author: 
Christopher Holcroft
Link: 
The Tyee
Why should Canadians pay for more F-35 fighters like this one made by a United States menacing our economy? Photo via Lockheed Martin.

July 8, 2025

The PM vows military spending will zoom. He’s failed to show the need or how we can afford it.

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Canada
Climate Change
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B.C. Premier Eby says he's not opposed to privately backed oil pipeline to north coast

27/06/25
Author: 
Lauren Vanderdeen
Link: 
CBC News
Premier David Eby says he would consider a pipeline to B.C.'s north coast if it didn't rely on public subsidies. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

June 22, 2025

Eby says his position is more nuanced than a hard no, but opposes public funding for project

As Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushes for a crude oil pipeline to British Columbia's north coast, B.C. Premier David Eby says he's not simply saying no.

Instead, Eby said he's against the public funding of such a pipeline.

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Ecology/Environment
LNG - Fracking
Oil - Pipelines
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Carney's 'Elbows Up' to Trump Becomes Sucking Up

26/06/25
Author: 
Christopher Holcroft
Link: 
The Tyee
Dropping of the guard? Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and US President Donald Trump at the G7 summit. Photo by Mark Schiefelbein, the Associated Press.

June 20, 2025

For Carney, It’s Elbows Down

Elected on a promise to fight for Canada, our new prime minister has drawn closer to the US.

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Canada
Social
USA
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Alberta's Deadly Half-Truths About Oilsands Emissions

26/06/25
Author: 
Ian Urquhart
Link: 
The Tyee
The actual number of tonnes of GHGs sent into the atmosphere by the oilsands keeps going up. Photo of Alberta’s oilsands by Kris Krug, Creative Commons licensed.

June 26, 2025

How Alberta Fudges Its Climbing Oilsands Emissions

The province crows about a drop in ‘intensity’ while rising GHGs fuel the climate crisis.

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Alberta
Canada
Climate Change
Industry Spin
Oil - Pipelines
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