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25/03/25
Author: 
Erin Blondeau
Pierre Poilievre at the 2023 Conservative Party convention. Credit: Pierre Poilievre / X

Feb. 21, 2025

Instead of turning towards nationalism, in the face of rising fascism, we should turn to each other and the planet.

Our neighbours across the colonial border are grappling with what is shaping up to be a United States dictatorship, with outsized influence from a syndicate of the world’s richest men. With a federal election around the corner and geopolitical tensions rising across the world, this is a moment for Canada to dive into audacious changes that can unite us all through visionary climate justice rather than rugged individualism and nationalism.

24/03/25
Author: 
Tom Perkins in Detroit
Lake Michigan in Chicago. The vital lakes provide drinking water to more than 40 million people in the US and Canada. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Mar. 18, 2025

Advocates warn firings and funding freezes already risk poisoning drinking water and decimating fish population

Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s attacks on federal agencies and funding freezes will be “cataclysmic” for the environment of the sensitive Great Lakes region if not reversed, industry and environmental advocates in the region warn.

24/03/25
Author: 
John Woodside
March 19, 2024: Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson pictured during an interview in his office on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Photo by Dave Chan/Canada's National Observer

Mar. 21, 2025

The fossil fuel industry’s call to roll back environmental policy at a time of economic crisis will hurt Canadians in the long run, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told the executives of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies Thursday.

24/03/25
Author: 
Brandi Morin
The mountains around Las Pampas. | Photo by Ian Willms

Feb. 27, 2025

Canada has finalized negotiations on a free trade deal with Ecuador, but claimed human rights protections ring hollow in light of alleged state repression

Photos by Ian Willms

22/03/25
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Image of planes over North America

Mar. 18, 2025

The global aviation industry is burning jet fuel like there’s no tomorrow. 

Jet engines now emit more fossil fuel CO2 than 120 nations combined. And the industry plans to send ever more flights into our overheating atmosphere come hell or high water. 

19/03/25
Author: 
Davide Mastracci
UBC Divest Hunger Strike for Palestine

UBC Divest | March 17

Some students at UBC have gone on hunger strike in an attempt to get the university’s administration to make good on past promises as well as to “divest from the over $110 million it has invested in weapons manufacturers and corporations that sustain Apartheid Israel’s ongoing occupation, annexation, and genocide in Occupied Palestine, Lebanon and Syria.”

19/03/25
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
Acting Auditor General Sheila Dodd's released a report Tuesday that finds the methods the ministry of forestry uses to account for carbon aren't consistent or transparent. Photo submitted.

Mar. 19, 2025

British Columbia’s carbon-accounting process to help make forestry decisions isn’t consistent or transparent, a new report by the province’s auditor general indicates. 

The B.C. Forests Ministry uses carbon projections to help determine how management decisions could affect the amount of planet-warming carbon emissions the province's forests store and release into the atmosphere. 

17/03/25
Author: 
Zoë Yunker
BC’s budget documents show the province anticipates a 60 per cent revenue jump from gas, thanks to rising prices and an 11 per cent increase in fracking due to demand from LNG Canada’s anticipated start this year. Photo via LNG Canada.

Mar. 11, 2025

As resource extraction intensifies, environmental assessments have been cut, says advocate.

16/03/25
Author: 
Taylor C. Noakes
Ads delivered in St. Catharines and Thorold, Ont. on Meta platforms. Images compiled by Rory White.

Mar. 7, 2025

In recent years Canadians have been regularly bombarded by a very specific kind of advertisement that claims to represent grassroots interests and opposes any government effort to enforce environmental regulations. They’re the creations of third party advertisers, often little more than an arm's length away from conservative parties and the fossil fuel sector, and are perhaps the single biggest direct source of environmental disinformation in Canada.

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