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09/12/25
Author: 
Harry North
A young child riding on her parents' shoulders is lost in a sea of flags during a huge union protest against the CAQ government in Montreal on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2025. Photo by Allen McInnis /Montreal Gazette

Nov. 30, 2025

It marks one of the largest public mobilizations against the CAQ government since the premier took office in 2018.

Major arteries of downtown Montreal on Saturday afternoon were shut down as tens of thousands of people, part of a broad coalition of Quebec labour groups and community organizations, marched against what they called Premier François Legault’s accelerating turn to the political right.

09/12/25
Author: 
Tara Lohan, originally published by Resilience.org
Elwha dam

This excerpt is adapted from Tara Lohan’s Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (2025, Island Press). It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (

07/12/25
Author: 
Inside Climate News
The cranes of a new megaport tower behind the town of Chancay, Peru. Credit: Cris Bouroncle/AFP via Getty Images

Dec. 1, 2025

A Massive, Chinese-Backed Port in Peru Could Push the Amazon Rainforest Over the Edge

The ultra-sophisticated port north of Lima will revolutionize global trade, but it’s already sparking destructive new routes through the world’s most climate-critical ecosystem.

 Eleventh in a series about how Beijing’s trillion-dollar development plan is reshaping the globe—and the natural world.

CHANCAY, Peru—The elevator doors leading to the fifth-floor control center open like stage curtains onto a theater-sized screen.

06/12/25
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
Premier David Eby visited the Crofton pulp mill in 2023 to announce government funding to help the facility. The company returned the money after it curtailed paper production. Photo via BC government.

Dec. 5, 2025

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.

06/12/25
Author: 
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Illustration by National Observer/Ata Ojani

Dec. 5, 2025

Canadian lentils are exposing simmering tensions between Carney's European trade ambitions and his government's proposal to eliminate a key part of Canada's pesticide risk assessment, observers say. 

06/12/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Art by Ata Ojani/Canada's National Observer

Dec. 4, 2025

The federal government’s expert body mandated to provide it with independent advice to reach net-zero emissions is collapsing following Prime Minister Mark Carney’s pipeline agreement with Alberta. Two prominent members of the body, including its chair, have resigned this week, citing a lack of influence over a government that’s increasingly pulling back on climate action.

04/12/25
Author: 
Nick Murray - The Canadian Press with files from The Energy Mix
 Shell Quest CCS plant, photo by @EarthAccounting

Dec. 3, 2025

Carney ‘Will Have To Answer’ Questions About Flip-Flop on Tax Credit, Liberal MP Says

A British Columbia Liberal MP said Wednesday Prime Minister Mark Carney “will have to answer” questions on why he reversed a budget commitment on tax credits for a controversial and self-defeating form of carbon capture and storage when he signed the Alberta energy deal.

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