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03/10/25
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
A section of the Kiskatinaw River running dry just upstream of the old Highway 97 trestle bridge between Fort St. John and Dawson Creek. Photo for The Tyee by Don Hoffmann.

Sept. 26, 2025

Parched, the city has proposed piping water in. And selling it to the very industry some say caused the problem.

After three years of drought, the City of Dawson Creek has reached a dangerous tipping point as the Kiskatinaw River, its only drinking water source, falls to levels never before seen.

03/10/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Catherine McKenna on stage at an event at the UN climate summit COP27. Photo via UNFCCC Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Sept. 24, 2025

Catherine McKenna isn’t buying the potential grand bargain being discussed between fossil fuel companies and the federal government.

03/10/25
Author: 
Cloe Logan
Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante talks to reporters on the site of the planned Vertieres Metro station on the blue line of the Montreal subway during a media tour in Montreal on Sept. 9, 2025. Photo by: Christopher Katsarov / The Canadian Press

Sept. 30, 2025

About a year ago, a wildfire in Jasper prompted a mass exodus from the town. More than 25,000 residents evacuated from their alpine home before a third of its buildings burned. It’s a stark example of the reality most municipalities are grappling with across Canada — that more floods, fires and smoke are here, exacerbated by emissions they have little local control over.

03/10/25
Author: 
Darryl Greer
Randy Tait, of the Nisga'a-Gitxsan Nation, blows down feathers into the air during a friendship walk to a National Indigenous Peoples Day gathering, in Vancouver, BC, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Photo by: Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press

Sept. 29, 2025

Two legal challenges filed in British Columbia claim a liquefied natural gas pipeline hasn't been "substantially started," contrary to a decision made by the provincial government back in June. 

Petitions filed in B.C. Supreme Court last week allege the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission natural gas pipeline project has been given the green-light by the B.C. Environment Ministry to go ahead without requiring a new environmental assessment certificate, which was first granted in 2014. 

01/10/25
Author: 
Zoë Yunker
A flaring stack at the LNG Canada plant in Kitimat. Production there will exceed Canadian guidelines for nitrogen dioxide. Photo via BC Energy Regulator.

Sept. 24, 2025

The project’s fast-tracked second phase would push a key pollutant far above current limits, documents reveal.

Nicknamed the “Eye of Sauron” by Kitimat residents, the flare from LNG Canada frequently engulfs the town in black, hydrocarbon-filled smoke, sometimes reaching the height of a 30-storey building. Last week, a resident reported to city council that his yard has smelled like burnt plastic.

01/10/25
Author: 
Alex Callinicos
Over 1,000 join a Your Party launch in Brixton, south London

Sept. 24, 2025

Don’t throw away historic opportunity for left

There is appetite for a radical and insurgent vision of the left

I don’t know about you, but I’m very angry. My anger is all the greater because it’s being diverted from its proper objects, such as Keir Starmer, Nigel Farage, Binyamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump. It’s provoked by the absurd split that has exploded at the top of Your Party.

25/09/25
Author: 
Luca Tavan
Italian trade unionists rally in Naples as part of a day of strikes and protests in solidarity with Gaza PHOTO: Matteo Ciambelli/Reuters

Sept. 24, 2025

On 22 September, half a million workers, students and solidarity activists mobilised in more than 80 cities across Italy under the slogan “Blocchiamo Tutto” (Let’s block everything). The Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), which initiated the action, has called for “the immediate break-off of relations with the terrorist state of Israel”.

17/09/25
Author: 
Shannon Waters and Matt Simmons
B.C. has approved the Ksi Lisims LNG liquefied natural gas export project, which will be built near the Nisga'a village of Gingolx. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal

Sept. 15, 2025 (Updated Sept. 16, 2025)

 

B.C. environment and energy ministers just gave the green light to Ksi Lisims, a project capable of producing almost as much as LNG Canada’s first phase. Concerns remain about the environmental impacts of the project

The B.C. government has just approved the Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility, which will produce up to 12 million tonnes of LNG annually by 2028. 

10/09/25
Author: 
James Dennis Hoff, Left Voice
photo: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP.

Sept. 9, 2025

As Trump Declares War On The City, Chicago’s Best Hope Now Is Workers

The city’s best hope is the working class, not Mayor Johnson.

As ICE launches “Operation Midway Blitz” and Trump doubles down on his threats to send in the National Guard.

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