Canada Isn’t Immune to Trump-ism
By Sarah Boon from Watershed Moments. In the days following the U.S. election, two former Canadian ambassadors to the U.S. had some advice for Canadians worried about the future of…
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One Alberta Ranching Family’s Three-Generation Fight for Cleanup of Contaminated Well Site
By Tony Bruder For three generations, my family has lived on our ranch near Twin Butte, Alberta, where the mountains meet the prairies. Against a backdrop of towering rock there…
One Alberta Ranching Family’s Three-Generation Fight for Cleanup of Contaminated Well Site
By Tony Bruder For three generations, my family has lived on our ranch near Twin Butte, Alberta, where the mountains meet the prairies. Against a backdrop of towering rock there…
B.C.’s First LNG Plant Gets Investment Green Light
This article originally appeared on The Climate Examiner at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. British Columbia’s first major liquefied natural gas project is set to go ahead with Woodfibre…
B.C.’s First LNG Plant Gets Investment Green Light
This article originally appeared on The Climate Examiner at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions. British Columbia’s first major liquefied natural gas project is set to go ahead with Woodfibre…
Ontario Cancels Nearly $4 Billion in Clean Energy Projects
Originally published on The Climate Examiner. The fingerpointing continues on the Ontario government’s decision to cancel $3.8 billion in planned wind and solar projects, as part of its struggle to…
Ian Gill: Fearless Journalism Essential to Democracy
Canada’s media industries are in a tailspin. As many as 10,000 journalists have lost their jobs in the past decade and newsroom closures or contractions are an almost weekly fact…
BC Hydro Repeating Painful History with First Nations
Fifty-five years ago, construction crews started one of the tallest earth dams in the world 22 kilometres west of Hudson’s Hope, B.C. It was to flood a valley shaped by…
The New Climate Denialism: Time for an Intervention
For decades, the urgent need for climate action was stymied by what came to be known as “climate denialism” (or its more mild cousin, “climate skepticism”). In an effort to…
Divide and Conquer: The Threatened Community at the Heart of the PNW LNG Project
By Ash Kelly and Brielle Morgan for Discourse Media. For a full, interactive version of this investigative piece, visit Discourse Media. For more than 5,000 years, First Nations people have…
Why the Site C Dam is an Economic Disaster: NDP Critic
This is a guest piece by Adrian Dix, the MLA for Vancouver-Kingsway and the NDP critic for BC Hydro and ICBC. BC Hydro and the provincial Liberal government are playing…
What I Learned From Being in a Focus Group Led by Bruce Anderson
By Laura Bouchard for CANADALAND. A few weeks ago, Bruce Anderson, a popular pundit and pollster, wrote an opinion piece criticizing the NDP’s Leap Manifesto as a clumsy political misstep.…
What I Learned From Being in a Focus Group Led by Bruce Anderson
By Laura Bouchard for CANADALAND. A few weeks ago, Bruce Anderson, a popular pundit and pollster, wrote an opinion piece criticizing the NDP’s Leap Manifesto as a clumsy political misstep.…
A Brief History of Fossil-Fuelled Climate Denial
By John Cook, The University of Queensland The fossil fuel industry has spent many millions of dollars on confusing the public about climate change. But the role of vested interests…
A Brief History of Fossil-Fuelled Climate Denial
By John Cook, The University of Queensland The fossil fuel industry has spent many millions of dollars on confusing the public about climate change. But the role of vested interests…
Canadian Climate Denial Group, Friends of Science, Named as Creditor in Coal Giant’s Bankruptcy Files
By Charles Mandel for the National Observer. A Canadian climate change denial group has popped up in a U.S. coal giant's bankruptcy proceedings that have lifted the curtain on the…
Canadian Climate Denial Group, Friends of Science, Named as Creditor in Coal Giant’s Bankruptcy Files
By Charles Mandel for the National Observer. A Canadian climate change denial group has popped up in a U.S. coal giant's bankruptcy proceedings that have lifted the curtain on the…
Unprecedented Wildfires in Western Canada Call For Serious Climate Action
This is a guest post by Jens Wieting, forest and climate campaigner with Sierra Club B.C. The wildfires currently raging uncontrolled in Alberta are not within the range of what’s…
Unprecedented Wildfires in Western Canada Call For Serious Climate Action
This is a guest post by Jens Wieting, forest and climate campaigner with Sierra Club B.C. The wildfires currently raging uncontrolled in Alberta are not within the range of what’s…
Black Press Keeps Buying and then Closing Small B.C. Papers. Why?
By Megan Devlin for J-Source, the Canadian Journalism Project. Eric Plummer, editor of the Alberni Valley Times, remembers the day last September when two representatives from Black Press told him…