In response to the federal government’s memorandum of understanding with the Government of Alberta on a new oil pipeline, prominent Quebec Liberal member of Parliament and longtime climate activist Steven Guibeault resigned from cabinet,
Report exposes vast wealth gap, but fails to challenge the concentrated power of capital
The latest World Inequality Report 2026 reveals the stark cleavage between rich and poor in the world – a division that is getting wider to the extreme. Based on data compiled by 200 researchers organised by the World Inequality Lab, the report finds that fewer than 60,000 people – 0.001% of the world’s population – control three times as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humanity.
Workers in Canada’s oil and gas industry won’t be able to escape the sector’s coming collapse regardless of the fossil fuel boosterism from politicians in Ottawa and Alberta.
That’s according to new research from the Centre for Future Work, which found that concerns about fossil fuel employment “have been weaponized by industry” to prevent or delay policies to reduce oil and gas production and use.
The world’s axis of rotation has shifted. America is no longer able to provide leadership in global discourse and guidance. US President Donald Trump has effectively sidelined America. China’s hard-earned, multi-decade focus on economic success and global acquisition of resources and critical minerals has accelerated its geopolitical ascendance.
The government has finally laid its cards on the table. The threat against our nation is real. That is why the Department of National Defence (DND) announced its plans to establish a 300,000-person citizens’ army.
This would be one of the largest civilian reserve mobilization efforts in recent Canadian history.
Where Are the Customers? Why the Idea of a Pipeline to Asia Is Built on a Fantasy
Asia is electrifying. It doesn’t need or want Alberta’s ultra heavy sour crude.
MARKHAM HISLOP
DEC 06, 2025
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This post first appeared on Markham Hislop’s Thoughtful Energy Journalism blog on November 28, 2025. Republished with permission.
BC hoped expanding Trans Mountain would be an alternative to a new pipeline. Instead both are possible.
With public attention focused on a proposed bitumen pipeline to British Columbia’s northwest coast, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith let drop that Premier David Eby had told her he agreed to a different proposal to expand oil shipments through B.C.
As oil and gas companies drill and frack more wells in British Columbia than ever, they are using record quantities of water while frequently not paying the province for that resource, a new report warns.
It marks one of the largest public mobilizations against the CAQ government since the premier took office in 2018.
Major arteries of downtown Montreal on Saturday afternoon were shut down as tens of thousands of people, part of a broad coalition of Quebec labour groups and community organizations, marched against what they called Premier François Legault’s accelerating turn to the political right.
