The case for reclaiming Canada’s pension trillions
Oil refinery near Edmonton operated by Suncor Energy. Photo by POD/Flickr. Workers in Canada have accumulated almost $3 trillion in savings managed by public pension funds. That’s more than half...
Nick Gottlieb
Ecuador just dealt a blow to US militarism in Latin America
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...
It is Israel that must be deradicalized, not Palestine
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…
Carney is pushing Canadian liberalism to its breaking point
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…
Canada’s support for LNG is support for Trump’s new form of fossil-fuelled fascism
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...
To respond to Trump’s tariffs, Canada should nationalize its oil industry
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…
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,”…
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…