Canada

May 23, 2026

Can Danielle Smith continue using Alberta separatism as a tool of political management without eventually losing control of the forces she helped unleash? This past week suggests she can’t. Political movements built on grievance rarely remain controllable for long. Since becoming premier in 2022, she has systematically normalized the politics of betrayal, victimhood, and existential crisis. Now she is trying to surf a political tsunami wave of her own making.

Can she survive?

May 21, 2026

May 15, 2026

Finance minister says yes, but ATI requests show there’s no plan for how to do both — and reveal significant unpublished emissions estimates

Newfoundland and Labrador is continuing on its path of extractivism without any evidence it will be able to meet its climate targets. But the province’s finance minister isn’t worried and says his government “can do both at the same time” — working toward a just transition while expanding fossil fuel production.

May 21, 2026

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May 11, 2026

May 8, 2026

A network of retired academics and think tanks is chipping away at established truths.

[Editor’s note: This article contains discussion of residential school denialism and abuse at residential schools.]

One morning last November, Shay Paul opened Facebook from her home in Kamloops, B.C., and was shocked to find her online community pages transformed.

Every group she was part of — from a page for Kamloops community updates to one for local thrifters — was awash in what she called residential school denialism.

May 3, 2026

Donald Trump has signed an agreement to get the massive Keystone XL pipeline into production. At the same time, Prime Minister Carney is pushing another pipeline to the Pacific. This, as Canadians are still subsidizing the bitumen in the TMX pipeline to the tune of about 50 cents on the dollar.

Meanwhile, The Guardian published an article this week about the latest findings on the state of the Atlantic Gulf Stream. 

And the news isn’t good.