Ecology/Environment

14/07/25
Author: 
Zoë Yunker
Toxins leak from a crumpled storage tank at the bankrupted Port Alice mill. Due to lax regulations, the BC public will pay for cleanup. Photo via PricewaterhouseCoopers.

July 14, 2025

Documents expose the huge cleanup BC faces for Port Alice and 11 more shut mills. Will new projects also slip off the hook?

13/07/25
Author: 
Sam Gindin
‘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’.

11/07/25
Author: 
Seth Klein
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.

08/07/25
Author: 
Kristen de Jager
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.

27/06/25
Author: 
Lauren Vanderdeen
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.

24/06/25
Author: 
The Breach
Carney CEO of Canada

6-minute video summarizes an unfolding nightmare for many Canadians and immigrants/refugees. Relief at keeping Poilievre from becoming PM is revealed as an illusion.

    -- Gene McGuckin

Jun. 19, 2025

Mark Carney’s first 100 days a blitz of pro-corporate, Trump-friendly moves

 

Carney has seized on Trump’s tariff crisis to push through a pro-corporate agenda that attacks Indigenous peoples, workers, and the environment

Now, it’s up to social movements to respond as quickly.

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