Canada

08/10/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Canada is in the top 10 for total emissions, which climate advocates say gives the country an even greater responsibility to align itself with a climate-safe future. Photo by Chris Robert / Unsplash

A new ranking of the planet’s largest polluters has Canada in the top 10 for total emissions, which climate advocates say gives the country an even greater responsibility to align itself with a climate-safe future.

08/10/21
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
A roadblock preventing Coastal GasLink from accessing a site where it plans to drill under the Morice River, or Wedzin Kwa to the Wet’suwet’en. RCMP have visited the site several times since the camp was created on Sept. 24, making two arrests. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

4 Oct 2021

On the scene where Coastal GasLink’s plan to install pipe under the river bed has been halted for 11 days.

At the turnoff, four workers with Coastal GasLink security gather in orange and yellow vests, their voices edged with frustration as they talk above four idling pickup trucks that release a haze of exhaust into the early morning light.

Another pickup faces off against the group, blocking access to the rough and muddy spur road that leads to the pipeline worksite.

06/10/21
Author: 
John Woodside
Oil and gas industry groups and climate advocacy organizations in Canada are squaring off to shape the federal government’s just transition strategy. Photo via Hebron

Somewhat amazingly, two words absent from this article are "profits" and "unions." It's like a nature calendar of BC with no pictures of water or trees.

                    - Gene McGuckin

October 6th 2021

As the planet slides into an era of climate breakdown, oil and gas industry groups and climate advocacy organizations in Canada are squaring off to shape the federal government’s just transition strategy.

06/10/21
Author: 
Ian Mulgrew
RCMP officers carry a woman they arrested at the Waterfall camp blockade against old growth timber logging in the Fairy Creek area of Vancouver Island last May. While law enforcement usually prevails in instances of environmental protests, this week other values triumphed in a B.C. Supreme Court ruling. PHOTO BY JENNIFER OSBORNE /REUTERS file

Sep 30, 2021  

Injunctions have long and often turned the court into a tool for Big Business and Bad Government. This time it didn’t work

Mohandas Gandhi would be proud — civil disobedience won another round in B.C. Supreme Court and the rule of law was defined as much more than simply law enforcement.

Justice Douglas Thompson’s refusal to extend a one-year injunction restricting protests against logging in the Fairy Creek watershed emphasized the impartial status of courts and civil rights are equally important societal values.

06/10/21
Author: 
Andru McCracken & Laura Keil
Chart summarizing delays in completion of each stage of construction across the different spreads (segments) of the pipeline route. Based on analysis by West Coast Environmental Law.

Oct. 3, 2021

According to a new 28-page report by West Coast Environmental Law, the Trans Mountain Expansion Project is going to be delivered late and over budget.

Eugene Kung, a lawyer for West Coast Environmental Law helped assemble the report called: Trans Mountain: Delays into 2023 will add millions to public cost, which can be viewed here: tinyurl.com/TMX-delay

06/10/21
Author: 
Tara Olivetree Ehrcke
Activists stage a “die-in” to protest old-growth logging in Vancouver. Photo: Pa-to-ri-ku.
Tara Olivetree Ehrcke analyzes Canada’s recent snap election and why the issues most important to Canadian voters—such as climate change, housing, and Indigenous rights—failed to translate at the ballot box.
05/10/21
Author: 
Heather Short
Heather Short

Sep 24, 2021

I've taught students about the climate crisis for years. But they aren't the ones who need to act now

This First Person article is the experience of Heather Short, a scientist and educator who lives in the greater Montreal region. For more information about CBC's First Person stories, please see the FAQ.

04/10/21
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
Journalist and professor Sean Holman says Canadian media needs to improve reporting on the climate crisis by humanizing and localizing stories. Photo by John Threlfall courtesy of University of Victoria

Climate change is the largest and most impactful story on the globe, yet Canadian media in particular has done an inadequate job in covering the issue, one expert says.

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