Canada

05/02/26
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Illustration by Aja Otani

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. 

02/02/26
Author: 
Pitasanna Shanmugathas
NDP 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.
02/02/26
Author: 
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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31/01/26
Author: 
Dogwood BC
Mark vs Marc [VIDEO]

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.

28/01/26
Author: 
Michelle Gamage
On Monday, DULF’s legal team questioned a Health Canada witness on the agency’s approach to safer supply. Photo for The Tyee by Michelle Gamage.

Jan. 28, 2026

Justice Catherine Murray said witness Eric Costen appeared to be ‘guessing’ in his responses on the stand.

Health Canada’s witness in the Drug User Liberation Front’s judicial review trial frustrated the judge and highlighted how opaque and frustrating Canadian drug policy can be.

28/01/26
Author: 
Christopher Alcantara and Philip Zuidema
In BC, a political staffer was fired for saying that flying the orange Survivors’ flag at the legislature was a disgrace. Photo via BC government.

Jan. 28, 2026

Over the last decade, Canada has positioned itself as a leader in pursuing reconciliation with its Indigenous Peoples.

28/01/26
Author: 
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Businessman Jim Pattison returns to his seat after speaking during a Canada's Walk of Fame ceremony honouring him in Vancouver on Friday Feb. 15, 2019. File photo by: Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press

Jan. 26, 2026

Activists are urging BC billionaire Jim Pattison — Canada's fifth-richest person — not to sell a warehouse his company owns in Virginia to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for use as a detention centre. 

Last Thursday, officials from Hanover County, VA said they had received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security, which is responsible for ICE, about purchasing the 17.6 hectare property, the Lewiston 95 Logistics Centre, "in support of ICE operations." 

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