Danita Catherine Burke, University of Southern Denmark. The Arctic is many things to many people. In Canada, this malleability has made the region an incredibly valuable vehicle for nation-building and…
By Arie Ross for Dogwood. Why did the BC Liberals prioritize a project that could harm local communities, the Fraser River and farmland? On the 601 bus to my hometown…
By Gavin Smith, staff lawyer at West Coast Environmental Law Association. This piece first appeared in the Vancouver Sun. B.C.’s new government is already seeing proof that it made the…
By Bryan Gaensler If you’ve been paying attention, you know that on Aug. 21, we’re in for a special cosmic treat: the Great American Eclipse of 2017. The moon’s shadow…
By Christopher Cheung for The Tyee. The construction industry has a big role to play as Canada aims to meet to its commitment to the Paris climate agreement and transition…
This is a guest post by Lisa Sammartino, the democracy campaigner for B.C.’s largest democracy group Dogwood. It originally ran on The Tyee. Christy Clark rounded out her final days…
By Ed Struzik for The Tyee. While doing research for a book I was writing on wildfire, I posed two questions to a number of experts: “Do you think there…
By Jeremy J.Nuttall for The Tyee. In the hours after the 2014 Mount Polley mine disaster, authorities were already concerned laws had been broken and the premier’s office was worried…
Henry Giroux, McMaster University via The Conversation Canada. According to famed anthropologist Arjun Appadurai, the central question of our times is whether we’re witnessing the worldwide rejection of liberal democracy…
By Grand Chief Stewart Phillip and Ben Parfitt One of the most important things that all Green and New Democratic Party MLAs agreed to in reaching their historic agreement to…
By Matt Price for iPolitics. Don’t think for a second that it’s Christy Clark’s nature to go quietly into the night. In response, the B.C. NDP and Greens may have…
This article originally appeared on The Climate Examiner. British Columbia now has sufficient detailed information about the height, frequency and direction of its coastal waves to start developing and testing…
By Maximilian Kniewasser, Pembina Institute. Four years ago, the government of British Columbia bet big on the prospect of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports creating overseas markets for the province’s…
By Barry Robinson, Ecojustice. The Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) is Alberta’s one-stop regulatory body for the oil and gas industry. When it was created in 2013 by the merging of…
This is a guest post by Ray Eagle. Many British Columbians may not realize that the $9 billion Site C dam, currently under construction on the Peace River, has a…
By Benjamin Israël for the Pembina Institute. In November 2016, the Government of Canada announced its intention to phase out coal as a source of power. Since then, many voices…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Premier Clark and most of Canada’s premiers recently signed the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change. ‘Framework’ is a good title for this agreement…
By Andrew MacLeod for The Tyee. The British Columbia government has pulled a television ad that claimed $20 billion has already been invested in the LNG industry in the province,…
By Andrew King, University of Melbourne For the Arctic, like the globe as a whole, 2016 has been exceptionally warm. For much of the year, Arctic temperatures have been much…
By Adam Scott for Oil Change International. he historic announcement by President Obama and Prime Minister Trudeau that both countries would ban oil & gas development in Arctic and Atlantic…
