OPINION The connection between clearcut logging and Canada’s hottest day on record With temperatures set to soar to 47 C in B.C., forests provide a cool, wet place for animals…
OPINION COVID-19 is fundamentally a story of humanity’s ever-encroaching relationship with all other living things on this planet Originally published by the Narwhal Emma Gilchrist Mar 17, 2020…
Amongst all the hooting and hollering over the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, it’s easy to lose track of how on earth we ended up in this place of dysfunction.…
With the announcement on Wednesday that the B.C. government will file its reference case on the ability of the province to regulate the transport of diluted bitumen in the Court…
In the fall of 1981, Jack Woodward was a young lawyer in Ottawa when NDP leader Ed Broadbent and prime minister Pierre Trudeau struck a deal to include aboriginal rights…
As the national conversation about the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline goes thoroughly bananas, one thing is becoming crystal clear: this conflict is likely to get worse before it gets…
On a certain level, Vivian Krause and her cadre are right when they accuse Canadian non-profits of taking foreign money. American philanthropists do give money to Canadian non-profits. There’s just…
A brief paragraph on page 186 of Tuesday’s federal budget held some of the best news for Canadian journalism in decades. “Over the next year the government will be exploring…
For decades, the ‘battle of Alberta’ has alluded to the intense rivalry between Calgary and Edmonton, especially on the ice or the football field. “The worst way to engage Edmontonians…
No, it wasn’t a weird dream, Alberta actually announced a boycott of B.C. wine on Tuesday. The announcement by Premier Rachel Notley is just the latest move in an inter-provincial…
If you’d met John Werring four years ago, he wouldn’t have been able to tell you what an abandoned gas well looked like. “We had no idea whether they were…
Canadian governments are sitting by and watching as endangered species disappear, in what one environmental lawyer calls a “slow moving catastrophe.” The latest blow comes as a deadline for provinces…
If you look closely at almost any major environmental controversy in B.C. in the past decade, you’ll find one common denominator: industry-paid “professionals” were trusted with our province’s environmental protection.…
As a new year gets underway, we’ve been taking some time to reflect. 2017 was a breakthrough year for DeSmog Canada’s independent journalism and we really mean it when we…
Not to be too glum just as the merry season hits its peak, but reindeer have been on my mind in more ways than one this week. You see, reindeer…
There is much to debate about Monday’s decision by the B.C. government to move forward with the Site C dam, but one thing is not debatable: construction should never have…
“Some newspapers dig. Some newspapers are a constant embarrassment to the powerful. Some manage to be entertaining, provocative, and fair at the same time. There are a few such newspapers…
For years British Columbians have been left in the dark about the most expensive public project in our history. All of that came to an end on Wednesday when the…
BC Hydro’s new CEO Chris O’Riley has written a letter to the B.C. Utilities Commission stating that the crown corporation will not meet the timeline for river diversion for the…
Canadian pipeline company TransCanada announced today it will no longer be proceeding with its proposed Energy East Pipeline and Eastern Mainline projects. “After careful review of changed circumstances, we will…
