British Columbia

21/11/25
Author: 
Stefan Labbé
The independent review found B.C.'s logging models for the Mackenzie timber supply region used wildly unrealistic assumptions, and ignored real-world risks like increased wildfire, drought and disease in a pattern likely playing out across the province.Rob Kruyt/BIV

Nov. 19, 2025

An undisclosed report obtained by BIV estimates the province is likely approving twice as much logging as can be sustainably harvested

A leaked technical review prepared for a group of First Nations claims British Columbia is greatly overestimating how much timber it can sustainably harvest in a push for short-term economic gains. 

21/11/25
Author: 
Shannon Waters
Transmission lines move power from where it’s generated to where it’s needed. B.C. is pushing to expand this network, including the North Coast transmission line, which — along with Ksi Lisims LNG — was added to the federal fast-tracked projects list. The province promises jobs and economic benefits, but offers few specifics. Photo: Leah Hennel / The Narwhal

Nov. 18, 2025

The provincial government has made big claims about the benefits the North Coast transmission line will bring. But it won‘t say much beyond that

Premier David Eby’s dream of fashioning British Columbia into an economic engine powerful enough to drive the Canadian economy took another step forward on Thursday. From Terrace, B.C., Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Ksi Lisims LNG and the North Coast transmission line would be added to the federal fast-tracking list. 

20/11/25
Author: 
Geoff Meggs
Premier David Eby’s speech at the NDP convention in Victoria Saturday was part of a successful campaign to maintain party support. Photo by Chad Hipolito, the Canadian Press.

Website editor: Also missing: the existential climate crisis? growing inequality, (taxing wealth?), the cost of living?

Nov. 20, 2025

19/11/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to reporters before question period on Oct. 9, 2025. Photo by Natasha Bulowski/Canada's National Observer

Website editor: Reconciliation?!

Nov. 19, 2025

The federal government is open to helping First Nations buy into the Ksi Lisims LNG export terminal or its related infrastructure as opposition to the projects grows.

16/11/25
Author: 
EcoCultureLab and SFU
How Another World Might be Possible (Nov. 4, 2025)

Nov. 4, 2025

The most recent “Radical Hope in Feverish Times” webinar is now available to be viewed. It featured Brian Tokar of the Institute for Social Ecology and Arthur Pye of the Emergency Committee on Rojava.

You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irCtcAdeUgo

15/11/25
Author: 
Judith Lavoie
Increased herring catches proposed for 2026 could wipe out stocks of the critical food source for salmon, halibut, whales and seabirds, say environmental groups. Photo via Pacific Wild.

Nov. 14, 2025

The DFO proposes to expand the fishery. Environmental groups and the W̱SÁNEĆ fear disaster.

A small, oily fish at the heart of B.C.’s coastal food web will likely disappear without an immediate moratorium on commercial herring fishing, say Saanich First Nations Hereditary Chiefs and conservation groups.

13/11/25
Author: 
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson Natasha Bulowski
Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim backstage at Collision 2024 on June 18, 2024. Photo by David Fitzgerald/Collision via Sportsfile

Nov. 13, 2025

An unprecedented 630 people registered to speak Wednesday against Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim’s controversial proposed budget in a marathon city council session that could stretch into next week.

The flood of speakers follows a Canada’s National Observer report that Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department in his proposed 2026 budget.

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