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Why are we losing our heads over oil and gas tariffs?

08/02/25
Author: 
Laurie Adkin
Link: 
National Observer
When U.S. President Donald Trump says Americans do not need Canada’s oil and gas, I say, “all the better for us.” Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 5, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to place tariffs on “Canadian” oil and gas exports and poof! The climate crisis has disappeared from the political radar of Canadian politicians. Could we not try, for a minute, to keep our heads about us and remember the bigger threat that is poised to swallow us all up?

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Brandi Morin in Ecuador: A Canadian mining giant vs. the guardians of the Amazon

07/02/25
Author: 
Brandi Morin
Link: 
Ricochet Media
Juostin Antun goes fishing by hand while wearing traditional Shuar clothing. All photos by Ian Willms

Feb. 6, 2025

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Poilievre Promises Cuts. Which Programs Are At Risk?

06/02/25
Author: 
Emma Paling
Link: 
The Maple
Screenshot of Pierre Poilievre video via X.

Feb. 4, 2025

The top-line agenda is clear: cut, cut, cut.

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is signalling what Canadians can expect if his party forms government later this year. 

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Why the Law Won't Stop Trump

06/02/25
Author: 
Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl
Link: 
Counterpunch
JESUS IS MY SAVIOR, TRUMP IS MY PRESIDENT - Photograph Source: SWinxy – CC BY 4.0

Feb. 6, 2025

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Inside a BC NDP Grappling with Protests, Police and Public Relations

05/02/25
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
Link: 
The Tyee
An FOI request made by The Tyee uncovered more than 100 pages of emails discussing a response to our media request about BC’s secretive plan to tighten protest response. Government emails obtained via FOI. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

Feb. 4, 2025

The Tyee’s questions to government sparked dozens of internal emails, now revealed via FOI.

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Canada should hit Trump where it hurts the most — oil and gas

05/02/25
Author: 
Seth Klein
Link: 
National Observer
An old oil pumpjack in Alberta on Dec. 1, 2023. Photo by flickr/Jason Woodhead

Feb. 3, 2025

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Whiplash: How Big Swings in Wet and Dry Weather Fuel Infernos

03/02/25
Author: 
Elizabeth Kolbert
Link: 
The Tyee
Fighting the Pacific Palisades blaze: California is ‘a poster child of what we expect to see more of in the future,’ says Swain. Photo by Ethan Swope, the Associated Press.

Feb. 3, 2025

A global climate trend set the stage for LA’s fires, explains scientist Daniel Swain.

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Trump’s Threats Expose Canada’s Utter Dependency On The U.S.

03/02/25
Author: 
Adam D.K. King
Link: 
The Maple
Photo via Justin Trudeau on Twitter.

Feb. 3, 2025

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B.C. can have affordable, renewable power – or LNG

01/02/25
Author: 
Kai Nagata
Link: 
Dogwood BC
Eby and Trump

Jan. 30, 2025

Clean energy offers peace, prosperity and political sanity. Oil companies plan to steal it.

British Columbia faces an urgent choice: renewable power or LNG? Our government claims we can have both.

But the absurd reality is that British Columbians are paying billions to build new electrical infrastructure — namely the Site C dam and North Coast Transmission Line — for the benefit of foreign oil and gas companies.

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Here’s how 2025 is shaping up to be a big year for LNG in B.C.

01/02/25
Author: 
Matt Simmons
Link: 
The Narwhal
More than a decade after the idea was first brought forward, the LNG Canada liquefaction facility will start exporting B.C. LNG this year. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal

Jan. 27, 2025

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