Hold onto your hats, British Columbia. In a stunning shift of power, NDP Premier David Eby made the biggest political miscalculation in B.C. history, perhaps Canadian history, with a snap election that managed to alienate just about everyone. B.C. now is faced with a Conservative government with a huge majority, led by someone who was virtually unknown six weeks ago.
Ottawa, October 16, 2026) The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) announced Wednesday it has granted MiningWatch Canada leave to intervene in the Gitxaała Nation’s historic challenge of British Columbia’s mining claim regime. The SCC case is the culmination of Gitxaała’s ground-breaking legal challenge against British Columbia’s “free entry” mineral claim staking regime and mineral claims granted by the B.C. government in Gitxaała territory.
Canadian climate movement tells Carney what we’re for & what we’re against; and news on another emergency – the poison drug crisis
Prime Minister Carney has said, “Don’t tell me what you are against; tell me what you are for.” Well, with respect to the first part – tough! Telling the truth about the climate emergency requires saying “No” to new fossil fuel infrastructure. But with respect to the second request – done!
Announcing funding to prepare BC for oil spills is ‘a warning sign all on its own,’ UBCIC women’s rep says.
Ending months of speculation, today the Carney government designated the West Coast oil pipeline a project of national interest, sidestepping environmental safeguards that have been in place for decades and charting a course that could irrevocably alter the Salish Sea.
The policy shift, revealed in a government email obtained by The Tyee, takes First Nations by surprise.
British Columbia’s government is contemplating carving the province into three zones to “provide greater clarity” to the timber industry, and discussions have so far left out First Nations.
The zoning plan is outlined in an email sent in early July to public servants in the Ministry of Forests and the Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship, a copy of which was provided to The Tyee by a source who requested anonymity.
