Ecuadorians protest Daniel Noboa’s far-right agenda in Quito, July 2024. Photo courtesy Popular Unity Two years ago, the Ecuadorian people showed the world what meaningful climate action looks l...
Photo by Thierry Ehrmann The recent recognitions of a Palestinian state and the October 10 ceasefire have been followed by a flurry of calls to “deradicalize” Palestinian society. The New…
The real battle over the Carney government’s Bill C-5 will unfold not in courtrooms but on railroad tracks, forestry roads, at ports, and in cities across the country. Photo by…
Cholla Power Plant, near Joseph City, Arizona. Photo by PDTillman/Wikimedia Commons. American so-called “natural gas” (the mixture of hydrocarbons made up mostly of methane) producti...
The Athabasca oil sands in northwest Alberta. Photo by Kris Krüg/Flickr. The response to America’s renewed belligerence under Trump 2.0 has been all over the map. Doug Ford, perhaps Canada’s…
In the summer of 1990, Ellen Gabriel (Katsi’tsakwas) was chosen by the People of the Longhouse and her community of Kanehsatà:ke to be their spokesperson during the infamous “Oka Crisis,”…
Photo by Mazur/Flickr Israel is destroying the United Nations, and with it, our only venue for an internationally coordinated project of climate change mitigation and adaptation. Over the last ...
American fighter planes in formation at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany. It serves as the headquarters for the United States Air Forces in Europe – Air Forces Africa (USAFE-AFAFRICA)…
A convoy of US Marines from the 1st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion in northern Iraq during a sandstorm, March 26, 2003. Photo by LCpl Andrew P. Roufs/Defense Imagery/Wikimedia Commons. In…
BC NDP MLA Selina Robinson. Photo courtesy Province of British Columbia/Flickr. “They don’t understand that it was a crappy piece of land with nothing on it. You know, there were…
Guided-missile destroyers in the Gulf of Aden. Photo courtesy the United States Department of Defense. On March 20, 2003, US President George W. Bush addressed the world: “At this hour,…
A Palestinian flag is seen on the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City’s Rimal district, October 10, 2023. Photo courtesy AFP. I work, write, and…
In August, millions of Ecuadorians voted in a landmark referendum to halt oil exploration and development in the Yasuní National Park in the Amazon rainforest, one of the most biodiverse…
On May 17 2023, the day this photograph was taken, the Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) from the Government of Canada measured 10+, the highest rating possible. Photo by Dwayne…
Wind turbines in East Pubnico, Nova Scotia. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. Something big just happened in Europe, but you probably didn’t hear about it. Major media outlets refused to report…
Tree ridge in flames during the 2018 Woolsey Fire that burned in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, California. Photo courtesy Peter Buschmann/United States Forest Service/Wikimedia Commons. One and a half…
Office workers in the early 1980s. Photo courtesy the Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums/Flickr. The British Columbia Green Party is the closest thing to a left-wing political party (at…
Timber harvesting in British Columbia. Photo from iStock. Two narratives about BC’s disappearing forests and logging industry have made national news over the last few months. On the one hand,…
The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada Angele Alook, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman and Bronwen Tucker Between the Lines, 2023 When new oil…
Fertilizing, May 1972. Photo by Charles O’Rear from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Documerica project/US National Archives/Flickr. Last year marked six decades since the publication of Rachel Carson’s seminal work Silent…
