With the facts in front of us — with even further evidence that corporations overwhelmingly produce the majority of our global greenhouse gas emissions — it’s clear that responsibility for…
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Does Fisheries and Oceans Canada’s (DFOs) science advisory process have integrity when tasked with answering questions on salmon farming? Tags: salmon farming DFO fisheries and oceans canada Cohen Commission scams…
By Amy Lubik, Ben Parfitt and Grand Chief Stewart Phillip Just two days before B.C. Energy Minister Michelle Mungall announced a completely inadequate “independent scientific review” of fracking in our…
Elizabeth Dubois, University of Ottawa and Grant Blank, University of Oxford “Information warfare” may be a top concern in the next Canadian election cycle, as a report on a workshop…
By Melina Laboucan-Massimo, David Suzuki Foundation Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change Fellow. This piece originally appeared on the David Suzuki Foundation website. On International Women’s Day, I doubt industrial projects…
By Candis Callison, Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia and Mary-Lynn Young, Associate professor, Graduate School of Journalism, University of British Columbia What can…
Mark Winfield is professor of environmental studies at York University and co-chair of the university’s Sustainable Energy Initiative. This piece originally appeared on Policy Options. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Dwight…
Amid continued controversy, Kinder Morgan is poised to break ground on its $7.4 billion Trans Mountain Expansion Project. When the pipeline is complete, it will triple the volume of diluted…
By Edward Struzik This article was originally published on The Conversation Canada. Northwest Territories Premier Bob McLeod was right when he issued a “red alert” in November and called for…
By Maryann Watson, Marine Campaigner and Stephanie Hewson, Staff Counsel at West Coast Environmental Law Clouds of blood pumped straight from a fish plant in B.C. made worldwide headlines last…
By Ross Belot for iPolitics. “The first thing you have to do is have a plan; you have to implement your plan, and then you have to ratchet up ambition.…
By Torrance Coste and Mark Worthing Last March, we travelled to northern Vancouver Island and hosted four public meetings about logging in the span of five days. The topics? The…
By Andrew MacLeod for The Tyee. For two years leading up to the May election, the government of British Columbia regularly broke its own law for responding to freedom of…
By Shannon Daub & Zoë Yunker. Newly uncovered documents obtained through Freedom of Information requests reveal the cozy relationship between the fossil fuel industry and the last B.C. government went…
By Zoë Ducklow for The Tyee. Recent experiences with the federal government have left Prophet River First Nation member Helen Knott wary of government promises. So while she and other…
By Chief Councillor Marilyn Slett and Councillor Jaimie Harris, Heiltsuk Nation. This piece first appeared on The Tyee. On Oct. 13, 2016, shortly after 1 a.m., Kirby Corporation’s tug the…
By Maximilian Kniewasser and Stephen Hui. Under Premier John Horgan and the NDP, British Columbia’s government is no longer promoting liquefied natural gas exports as a once-in-a-generation opportunity to snag…
The Police Problem in Canada
The Emergencies Act sets a dangerous precedent- as does Bill 1 in Alberta, and we should not be encouraging their precedent-setting use. It is clear that the systems and leaders…