Canada

Mark Carney’s Goal Is to ‘Increase Our Oil Production,’ Says Former Chief of Staff

06/02/26

Author:

Mary Stuart

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Desmog

Prime Minister Mark Carney. Credit: Mark Carney Facebook account

Jan. 27, 2026

It’s an energy agenda seemingly at odds with the prime minister’s previous stated commitments to addressing climate change.

A key goal of the Mark Carney government is to “increase our oil production”, according to the Canadian prime minister’s former Chief of Staff Marco Mendicino.

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Canada

Climate Change

Oil - Pipelines

Carney replaces EV sales mandate with rebates and regulations

06/02/26

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

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National Observer

Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association President Flavio Volpe shows Prime Minister Mark Carney, front right, the Project Arrow 2.0 prototype vehicle during a tour of an auto-parts plant, Woodbridge, Ont., February 5, 2026. Photo by: Eduardo Lima / The Canadian Press

Feb. 5, 2026

Another Justin Trudeau-era climate policy is now history: Prime Minister Mark Carney is scrapping the electric vehicle sales mandate and replacing it with “more stringent” fuel-efficiency standards and EV purchase rebates.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

It’s time for something bolder than Carney’s path of appeasement

06/02/26

Author:

Nick Gottlieb

Link:

Canadian Dimension

Prime Minister Carney’s now-famous speech at Davos outlined a vision of Canada charting a path as a “middle power” between increasingly belligerent “great powers” dominating a lawless planet.

But his speech left out something critical.

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Even Full-Time Workers Struggle to Afford Food in Canada: Study

06/02/26

Author:

Isaac Phan Nay

Link:

The Tyee

The cost of food rose 27 per cent compared with five years ago and is expected to rise by up to six per cent this year, according to research by Dalhousie University. Image via Shutterstock.

Feb. 6, 2026

Researcher Tim Li says it’s a sign that wages aren’t keeping up with inflation.

A quarter of Canadian families are facing food insecurity even when most have a breadwinner working a permanent, full-time job, new research suggests.

Researchers from the University of Toronto’s food insecurity research program analyzed Statistics Canada income data to better understand how Canadians’ jobs affect their access to food.

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Canada

Social

Inside the Far-Right Push to Influence Canadian Political Parties

06/02/26

Author:

Jen St. Denis

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The Tyee

Last August, Alex Vriend, left, Daniel Tyrie, centre, and Othman Mekhloufi, right, participated in a Spaces call to discuss how to influence mainstream Conservative parties to adopt anti-immigration policies. Photo illustration by The Tyee. Vriend and Tyrie photos are video stills from a CBC report and YouTube. Mekhloufi photo submitted.

Feb. 6, 2026

Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions of racist and antisemitic language.]

Over the course of a two-hour-long conference call in August, two leaders of Canadian groups that experts have described as white nationalist and eager audience members bantered about deporting 10 million people, decried the existence of mixed-race marriages and children and said they would “be happy to march millions of Punjabis into the Pacific Ocean.”

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British Columbia

Canada

Social

Reality check: 49,000 Chinese EVs won’t come close to getting Canada back on track

05/02/26

Author:

Barry Saxifrage

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National Observer

Feb. 5, 2026

Last year, Canadian politicians lowered the cost of new fossil-fuel burning passenger vehicles by thousands of dollars by scrapping the carbon price. Unsurprisingly, sales of these high-emissions cars and trucks surged by 135,000 to reach 1.8 million in 2025. If we want to avoid a full-blown climate crisis this number needs to be zero.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canada’s New Democratic Party Excludes Grassroots Left-Wing Anti-War Candidates from Its Leadership Race

02/02/26

Author:

Pitasanna Shanmugathas

Link:

Jurist News

Jan. 30, 2026

Canada’s federal New Democratic Party (NDP), which has the third-largest membership base in federal politics, is facing controversy in its 2026 leadership race after an unelected three-person vetting committee rejected two successive candidates advancing an explicitly anti-war, anti-capitalist platform. The decision has sparked fierce debate about the boundaries of acceptable political discourse within the country’s social democratic party.

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Who's Behind the Hard-Right in Canada? A Reference Guide to Canada's Disinformation Network

02/02/26

Author:

The Democracy Defender

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The Democracy Defender

Who's Behind the Hard-Right in Canada? A Reference Guide to Canada's Disinformation Network

Jan. 14, 2026

From "Freedom" to Dominion: Mapping Canada's Nationalist Turn

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Carney’s Job Cuts Undermine Canada’s Position Against Trump

02/02/26

Author:

Adam D.K. King

Link:

The Maple

Trump and Carney - Photo via Mark Carney on Twitter.

Feb. 2, 2026

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Mark vs Marc [VIDEO]

31/01/26

Author:

Dogwood BC

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You Tube

Jan. 28, 2026

Trump's ghoulish Board of Peace includes billionaire Ksi Lisims LNG investor Marc Rowan. comment "Carney" to send a letter to your MP, demanding they block Canadian taxpayer subsidies to Rowan and his gang of Wall Street MAGA creeps.

Marc Rowan's firm Apollo Global Management (which he co-founded with Jeffrey Epstein's sugar daddy, Leon Black) is one of several U.S. private equity firms buying up key nodes of the Canadian economy and deepening American control of our resources.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy