From Kanehsatà:ke to Palestine
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,”…
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The destruction of the UN is the destruction of the world
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 ...
Renewable transition or global US empire? You can’t have both
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)…
Militarism is the carbon bomb we can no longer ignore
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…
Selina Robinson didn’t just abuse her position—she abused the legacy of the Holocaust
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…
Canada has gone from complicity through silence to active participation in genocide
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,…
Stop the genocide in Gaza
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…
Ecuador just showed the world what it means to take climate change seriously
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…
The climate emergency is a crisis of capitalism
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…
Canada should embrace the degrowth imperative
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…
The terrifying math of the incoming El Niño
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…
Four-day work week: Reformist or revolutionary?
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…
BC’s logging industry is using mill closures as a political tool in its fight against regulation
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,…
New book shows why Indigenous leadership must be at the heart of Canada’s just transition
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…
The lesson we should have learned from ‘Silent Spring’
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…
Canada and Saudi Arabia are partners in climate inaction
Photo by Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register A few weeks ago, the New York Times published an investigation into Saudi Arabia’s comprehensive campaign to perpetuate the global fossil fuel economy.…
Disruptive action on the climate deserves our support
Anti-oil protesters throw tomato soup on van Gogh’s “Sunflowers.” Screenshot from Twitter. Earlier this month, a pair of young activists with a group called Just Stop Oil threw soup on…
New documents reveal callousness of fossil fuel execs—and Canada’s complicity
“The Shell Skull” by Andreas Metz. Photo by Andreas Metz/Flickr. The United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform just held the third hearing of its investigation into the fossil…
Canada’s home energy retrofit funding woefully inadequate
Suburbs in Toronto. Photo by Jan Buchholtz. Retrofitting existing buildings is one of the only tools for mitigating climate change that virtually everyone can agree on. There are large numbers…
What Canada’s media gets wrong about the fossil fuel industry
Photo by Matt Jiggins/Flickr Last week, the Liberal government took the first steps toward actualizing the emissions cap they promised during the last election for the oil and gas sector.…