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BC Resets Labour Landscape for 5,000 Long-Term Care Workers

02/12/25

Author:

Andrew MacLeod

Link:

The Tyee

Care aide Edil Bukid said the changes are ‘about dignity for workers, for seniors and for their families who trust us.’ She was joined by the HEU’s Lynn Bueckert, MLA Susie Chant and Health Minister Josie Osborne for the announcement. Photo for The Tyee by Andrew MacLeod.

Dec. 2, 2025

The government will also continue funding some pandemic wage increases.

A Hospital Employees’ Union official said Monday that an agreement with the British Columbia government to bring some 5,000 workers at 100 care homes back into the sector’s main bargaining unit is a win for the union and seniors.

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British Columbia

Labour - Unions

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Thomas King and the Problem with Indigenous ‘Heroes’

02/12/25

Author:

Celeste Pedri-Spade

Link:

The Tyee

Thomas King is presented the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2014. Photo by Patrick Doyle, the Canadian Press.

Dec. 1, 2025

These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries such as publishing, media and academia. Not by us.

Years ago, when I first began researching Indigenous identity theft — something that intrigued me intellectually and impacted me personally — I remember trying to explain it to my Indigenous family members back home in northwestern Ontario.

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Canada

Indigenous Peoples

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Floods in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Thailand leave more than 1,140 dead

01/12/25

Author:

News Agencies

Link:

Aljazeera

Dec. 1, 2025

Torrential rain has left Sri Lanka and parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia under water.

watch video here: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/1/floods-in-indonesia-sri-lanka-thailand-leave-close-to-1000-dead

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War of the Brown Noses

01/12/25

Author:

Jeb Lund

Link:

Truth Dig

Nov. 21, 2025

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USA

MAGA Is Crumbling

01/12/25

Author:

Heather Cox Richardson

Link:

facebook.com/heathercoxrichardson

November 29, 2025 (Saturday)

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USA

Did the climate world misread Carney?

01/12/25

Author:

John Woodside

Link:

National Observer

Dec. 1, 2025

Mark Carney, the central banker, was the thought leader the climate movement needed: someone who could translate the reality of climate change into the language of finance. As prime minister, he is torching the country’s climate policies, while pouring government time and resources into new fossil fuel infrastructure. To state the obvious, these are not the decisions of a climate champion.

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A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won’t Admit

01/12/25

Author:

Andrew Nikiforuk

Link:

The Tyee

The plan to daily pump 1.4 million more barrels of bitumen includes expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline, shown here being buried in Abbotsford, BC, in 2023. Photo by Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press.

Dec. 1, 2025

An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.

Lo and behold, Prime Minister Mark Carney, a global banker, and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a petro-populist à la Donald Trump, have big energy plans for Canadians.

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The method to Mark Carney’s madness

29/11/25

Author:

Max Fawcett

Link:

National Observer

Mark Carney's "grand bargain" with Alberta represents a big swing on an important issue for the prime minister. Photo by Natasha Bulowski

"Gripping Article/Discussion on Carney Pipeline Deal "- Gene McGuckin

Nov. 27, 2025

Liberal prime ministers aren’t supposed to get standing ovations in Calgary, much less from a room packed full of mostly-Conservative business leaders and provincial cabinet ministers who spent the better part of a decade honing their hatred of the Trudeau government. But Mark Carney, for better or worse — more on that in a moment — is clearly not your average Liberal prime minister. After all, he got two standing ovations.

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Climate Change and Labour Precarity: A Worker-Centred Agenda

28/11/25

Author:

Leah Montange

Link:

The Bullet

Nov. 28, 2025

Just as the COP30 meeting in Belen, Brazil, has ended, the last week of November is Canada Climate Week Xchange. We could hope this is good news, but instead of the week’s activities being sponsored by traditional climate organizations or climate innovators, it is organized by the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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CleanBC review: B.C. isn't close to meeting climate goals and LNG development makes path tougher

28/11/25

Author:

Alec Lazenby

Link:

Vancouver Sun

Kitimat has long been an industrial hotbed, including the new LNG Canada plant, seen here flaring in the background. Photo by Government of B.C.

Nov. 26, 2025

Independent reviewers Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz said it's time to set more realistic climate targets for 2030 and beyond

B.C. needs to “recalibrate” its approach to climate action and have a serious conversation about how expanding liquefied natural gas fits into the province’s goals of reducing emissions, according to an independent review of the government’s CleanBC plan.

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The government will also continue funding some pandemic wage increases.

These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries such as publishing, media and academia. Not by us.

Torrential rain has left Sri Lanka and parts of Indonesia’s Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia under water.

An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.

Independent reviewers Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz said it's time to set more realistic climate targets for 2030 and beyond

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