Climate Change

20/02/25
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Primary Author: Gaye Taylor
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Feb. 20, 2025

Fossil fuel companies are influencing what Canadian students learn about climate change, funding and supplying educational materials that frame the issue to serve their interests, health and climate advocates warn in a new report.

20/02/25
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Christopher Bonasia
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Feb. 20, 2025

Canada’s pension funds are moving to address climate risk, but rising political uncertainty “raises stakes” for those falling behind, concludes an evaluation of the country’s largest pension managers.

19/02/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
Photo by: Sergey Pesterev / Unsplash

Feb. 18, 2025

Should we even bother talking about climate change?

It’s a question you hear muttered more and more in environmental circles and even more brashly from those focused on clean energy: given the shift in public priorities and the state of politics, should climate advocates just stop talking about climate change?

16/02/25
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Susan Spronk, Karen Spring and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood
climate crisis protestors

Website editor: Here in a nutshell is the problem: "....tackle the climate crisis by financing public goods instead of offering incentives to private firms."

Feb. 16, 2025

14/02/25
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
Recent public opinion polls suggest the majority of Canadians are opposed to U.S. companies taking greater ownership of natural resource projects and support using export taxes on oil and gas as a counter measure to Trump tariff threats. Natural gas worker file photo B.C. Government / Flickr

Feb. 14, 2025

The Canadian public is souring on the U.S. as Trump wields trade threats as an “economic force” to drive home his message that Canada should become the 51st state

13/02/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Photo via Trans Mountain / Facebook

Opposition parties are calling for “full transparency” from the federal government about its financial commitments to the Trans Mountain expansion project, following revelations of a $20-billion refinancing loan offered to the beleaguered company.

13/02/25
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Glen Williams, Stewart Phillip
To counter the nihilistic vision of U.S. President Donald Trump and the MAGA billionaires now taking over the U.S. government, we must work together to build a bright and shining alternative, write Glen Williams/Malii and Stewart Phillip. Photo by Brandon Bell /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Feb. 12, 2025

Clean water, food security, and healthy communities are how we will outlast Trump

Some B.C. politicians are using the trade war threat posed by President Donald Trump to push for no-holds-barred resource extraction on First Nations lands.

11/02/25
Author: 
Damien Gayle
A police officer appears to film Just Stop Oil activists on Whitehall near Parliament Square on Saturday, May 20, 2023. Photo by Alisdare Hickson/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Feb. 11, 2025

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

10/02/25
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
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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