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.
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.
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.
Repeated ridges of high pressure have prevented winter from setting in
Repeated ridges of high pressure have been driving temperatures in B.C. up into the double digits, with daily heat records falling in at least a dozen cities from Vancouver to Cranbrook to Dawson Creek.
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.”
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.
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.
From "Freedom" to Dominion: Mapping Canada's Nationalist Turn
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In the Progressive International's fourth Briefing of 2026, we examine a world ruled by a tiny elite — and the growing international front determined to dismantle global apartheid and build a new order.
Fewer than 60,000 people — the richest 0.001% — now control three times more wealth than half of humanity combined.
That is our world’s balance sheet: a planet of over eight billion people ruled, in practice, by a rounding error.
