Canada

Growing sustainable food: Canada’s chance to lead

12/02/25

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ruce Lourie

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What does sustainable, climate-resilient, profitable farming, at scale, look like? Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 12, 2025

The agriculture and agri-food sectors are, perhaps, the most complex, diverse and challenging sectors to work with on sustainability. There are several efforts underway in Canada, some national and some regional, some focused on smaller-scale farms and some with large industrial agri-food interests, but there is not a cohesive sense of the endgame. What does sustainable, climate-resilient, profitable farming, at scale, look like?

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Sometimes, going rogue is the only way to get things done

12/02/25

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Leah Borts-Kuperman

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National Observer

Dr. Sébastien Sauvé, University of Montreal professor of environmental chemistry, with one of his collection bottles. Photo by: Bastien Doudaine

Feb. 12, 2025

For years, Sébastien Sauvé, a professor of environmental chemistry at the University of Montreal, would go to public places, like Tim Horton’s, with an empty water bottle in his jacket. Sauvé would make his way back to the bathroom sink and fill his bottle — not to drink, but to take to his lab and test for harmful chemicals in Quebec’s drinking water.

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Canada Must Oppose Trump Plan for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

11/02/25

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Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

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The Bullet

Feb. 11, 2025

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Who Benefits from BC’s Plan to Fast-Track Resource Projects?

10/02/25

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Amanda Follett Hosgood

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The Tyee

BC Premier David Eby has promised to ‘expedite’ 19 natural resource projects in the face of a possible trade war with the United States. Photo via BC government Flickr.

Feb. 10, 2025

It’s been floated as a remedy to trade instability with the US. But experts raise four key caveats.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

The climate movement needs its own ‘drill, baby, drill’

08/02/25

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Zain Haq

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National Observer

Climate activist Zain Haq. Photo by Ian Harland

Feb. 3, 2025

I write this as I sit in Karachi, Pakistan, after deportation from Canada because of my nonviolent activism on the climate crisis. My activism, and that of my Canadian wife, Sophie, is on hold as we chart our course through a life in exile and hope for reunification in Canada.

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The latest multi-billion dollar handout for TMX

08/02/25

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Stefan Labbé

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Business in Vancouver

Early data suggests Canadian crude exports are benefiting from new pipeline capacity. But a recent $20-billion loan has raised new questions over the pipeline's final costs.Trans Mountain

Jan. 31, 2025

The Canadian government has approved a new $20-billion loan to finance the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline two years after the government said it would not provide further money for the project.

The loan to the pipeline project, known as TMX, was provided through Export Development Canada’s Canada Account, which supports transactions when the Crown corporation is unable to back a project because of a combination of financial and market risks.

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Why are we losing our heads over oil and gas tariffs?

08/02/25

Author:

Laurie Adkin

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National Observer

When U.S. President Donald Trump says Americans do not need Canada’s oil and gas, I say, “all the better for us.” Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 5, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump threatens to place tariffs on “Canadian” oil and gas exports and poof! The climate crisis has disappeared from the political radar of Canadian politicians. Could we not try, for a minute, to keep our heads about us and remember the bigger threat that is poised to swallow us all up?

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'Alternative' energy and less energy