Mark Carney wants to make Canada more like Norway. He has some work to do
It’s back. As dangerous wildfire smoke blanketed much of the northeast part of our continent, the conversation about our new climate change-driven normal returned with a depressingly predictable vengeance. So too did the loopy comments from Republican politicians in the United States, reflecting a fundamental misunderstanding of both climate science and geographic realities.
Prominent New Democrats and community leaders raise the alarm over Premier Eby + caucus support for LNG and call for renewed provincial climate leadership, amid worsening climate disasters Signatories in open letter say British Columbia no longer has a climate plan
Carney finally shows which side he's on! FIGHT ON FOR THE CHILDREN!!!!
- Gene McGuckin
Jul. 5, 2026
Carney seals the pipeline deal, and his energy minister touts a $43-billion taxpayer bailout as a good investment. Would you buy a used “energy superpower” strategy from these guys?
“Trust is probably the most sought-after commodity now.”
When the French are banning booze, you know things are really getting extreme. It is only June, but Europe is suffering through its second major heat wave in two months, and this one is shattering records by astonishing margins.
Bulletin Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Guardian. It appears here [in the Bulletin] as part of the Climate Deskcollaboration.
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.
According to the National Geographic Society: “The human footprint is one of the most destructive forces in Earth’s history, fundamentally altering the planet at an unprecedented scale. Humanity consumes resources far faster than they can regenerate, driving rapid environmental degradation, mass biodiversity loss, and climate shifts that many scientists classify as a new geological epoch.”
