Capitalism

02/10/26
Author: 
Sarah Cox
Mark Carney announced Thursday, alongside Danielle Smith in Fort McMurray, that the West Coast pipeline will go ahead as a project in the national interest. Photo by Greg Halinda, the Canadian Press.

Oct. 2, 2026

Announcing funding to prepare BC for oil spills is ‘a warning sign all on its own,’ UBCIC women’s rep says.

Ending months of speculation, today the Carney government designated the West Coast oil pipeline a project of national interest, sidestepping environmental safeguards that have been in place for decades and charting a course that could irrevocably alter the Salish Sea.

16/09/26
Author: 
Anupriya Datta, Nicoletta Ionta, Eddy Wax
Saab JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets. [Thomas Imo/Photothek for the German Federal Foreign Office via Getty Images]

Sept. 15, 2026

The potential rival to NATO will come with a call for an ‘Alliance for the future’ with Canada, according to a draft

STRASBOURG – Ursula von der Leyen will propose a radical change to Europe’s security architecture and the NATO Western alliance when she takes the floor in the European Parliament on Wednesday.

08/09/26
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
‘AI needs a time out.’ Bek MacIntosh is ready to share hard-won lessons with other communities facing hyperscale proposals. Photo by Audrey Agrinier.

Sept. 7, 2026

Bek MacIntosh helped rally her Alberta town to kill a megaproject. The wider fight, she vows, is ‘just getting started.’

The first thing that Bek MacIntosh, a 42-year-old business owner and mother of three, wants Albertans to know is this: it is possible for a community to stop a $10-billion hyperscale data centre dead in its tracks.

Even when the local and provincial governments have different plans.

28/08/26
Author: 
Christopher Holcroft
Pulling the brakes. Prime Minister Mark Carney explains why Canada rejected US trade terms in Ottawa on Saturday. Photo by Patrick Doyle, the Canadian Press.

Aug. 25, 2026

We dodged a bad deal. Now the PM needs to take these steps to signal where Canadians really stand.

While it is a good thing that Prime Minister Mark Carney ultimately refused to sign an agreement with the United States, it is important not to mythologize that decision.

21/08/26
Author: 
Nashwa Lina Khan
Image source: iStock

Jul. 2, 2026

Israel’s ongoing genocide is the fascists’ blueprint for the world they seek to construct

Gaza has long been a warning of a new world order, now it is a blueprint—a testing ground, genocide laboratory, space of exception. The smaller of the two Palestinian territories has exposed how the limits of permissible bloodshed are tested, refined, and exported into broader global practice.

21/08/26
Author: 
Nathan Griffiths
B.C. spent an average of $525 million a year on wildfire suppression from 2016-2025. This is the Bald Range fire near Summerland on Aug. 10. Photo by B.C. Wildfire Service /Government of B.C.

“To be honest, there aren’t really good data on the cost of climate change,” co-author Andy Hira said, something he attributed to “willful ignorance” among policy-makers reluctant to link fossil fuel production to the costs it helps create.

Aug. 19, 2026

28/06/26
Author: 
Dr. Tim Morgan
Featured Image: Kaique Rocha (via Pexels)

Jun. 26, 2026

It’s the end of growth as we know it

Economic growth is generally understood as a process that delivers a material betterment of living standards over time. But growth had two other virtues, neither of which has until now received much attention. Both will be sorely missed now that meaningful growth has ended.

First, that economic growth can rescue us from the consequences of our own mistakes or misfortunes.

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