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06/02/26
Author: 
Nick Gottlieb
Photo by Gatis Rozenfelds/Flickr

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.

But his speech left out something critical.

06/02/26
Author: 
Isaac Phan Nay
The cost of food rose 27 per cent compared with five years ago and is expected to rise by up to six per cent this year, according to research by Dalhousie University. Image via Shutterstock.

Feb. 6, 2026

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.

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06/02/26
Author: 
Andrew Kurjata, Amber Wang
Prince George Iceman spokesperson Sylvia Masich makes her feelings known about unseasonably warm weather that has melted the ice on the city's outdoor ice oval on Wednesday. (Jason Peters/CBC)

Feb. 4, 2026

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.

06/02/26
Author: 
Jen St. Denis
Last August, Alex Vriend, left, Daniel Tyrie, centre, and Othman Mekhloufi, right, participated in a Spaces call to discuss how to influence mainstream Conservative parties to adopt anti-immigration policies. Photo illustration by The Tyee. Vriend and Tyrie photos are video stills from a CBC report and YouTube. Mekhloufi photo submitted.

Feb. 6, 2026

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.”

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

You can download this article for free in PDF format with Table of Contents and full resolution images and tables for future reference, sharing, and research with this link:

02/02/26
Author: 
Progressive International
Mappa, 1979 - 1983 Alighiero Boetti

Jan. 2, 2026

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.

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.

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