Climate Change

10/02/26
Author: 
Andrew MacLeod
Green Leader Emily Lowan: ‘It’s become clear that the BC NDP is ceding their values to corporate interests.’ Photo via BC Greens.

Feb. 9, 2026

‘They haven’t fought for unions or stood up to the one per cent.’

The BC Green Party is ending its formal support for the NDP in the legislature, citing the government’s failure to make enough progress on key issues.

“It’s become clear that the BC NDP is ceding their values to corporate interests,” Green Leader Emily Lowan said in a statement Monday morning. “This government isn’t willing to support workers — they haven’t fought for unions or stood up to the one per cent — we will.”

10/02/26
Author: 
Rhiannon Fox Melissa Lem Emiko Newman Sunil Singal Alexandra Woodsworth
Polling clearly demonstrates that the higher your knowledge about the causes of climate change, the more likely you are to support climate policies. Photo: Pikrepo.com

Feb. 10, 2026

The final months of 2025 were not kind to those concerned about the fate of our planet.

Rollbacks of hard-won climate policies and plans swept across the country like the seasonal flu. Vancouver city council passed an aggressively anti-climate budget despite hundreds of people showing up to speak to council in opposition. 

08/02/26
Author: 
Environmental Defence
High speed rail

Feb. 2, 2026

Statement from Sam Hersh, Clean Transportation Program Manager

06/02/26
Author: 
Mary Stuart
Prime Minister Mark Carney. Credit: Mark Carney Facebook account

Jan. 27, 2026

It’s an energy agenda seemingly at odds with the prime minister’s previous stated commitments to addressing climate change.

A key goal of the Mark Carney government is to “increase our oil production”, according to the Canadian prime minister’s former Chief of Staff Marco Mendicino.

06/02/26
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association President Flavio Volpe shows Prime Minister Mark Carney, front right, the Project Arrow 2.0 prototype vehicle during a tour of an auto-parts plant, Woodbridge, Ont., February 5, 2026. Photo by: Eduardo Lima / The Canadian Press

Feb. 5, 2026

Another Justin Trudeau-era climate policy is now history: Prime Minister Mark Carney is scrapping the electric vehicle sales mandate and replacing it with “more stringent” fuel-efficiency standards and EV purchase rebates.

06/02/26
Author: 
Nick Gottlieb
Photo by Gatis Rozenfelds/Flickr

Prime Minister Carney’s now-famous speech at Davos outlined a vision of Canada charting a path as a “middle power” between increasingly belligerent “great powers” dominating a lawless planet.

But his speech left out something critical.

06/02/26
Author: 
Andrew Kurjata, Amber Wang
Prince George Iceman spokesperson Sylvia Masich makes her feelings known about unseasonably warm weather that has melted the ice on the city's outdoor ice oval on Wednesday. (Jason Peters/CBC)

Feb. 4, 2026

Repeated ridges of high pressure have prevented winter from setting in

Repeated ridges of high pressure have been driving temperatures in B.C. up into the double digits, with daily heat records falling in at least a dozen cities from Vancouver to Cranbrook to Dawson Creek.

05/02/26
Author: 
Barry Saxifrage
Illustration by Aja Otani

Feb. 5, 2026

Last year, Canadian politicians lowered the cost of new fossil-fuel burning passenger vehicles by thousands of dollars by scrapping the carbon price. Unsurprisingly, sales of these high-emissions cars and trucks surged by 135,000 to reach 1.8 million in 2025. If we want to avoid a full-blown climate crisis this number needs to be zero. 

02/02/26
Author: 
Pitasanna Shanmugathas
NDP 2026
 
Canada’s federal New Democratic Party (NDP), which has the third-largest membership base in federal politics, is facing controversy in its 2026 leadership race after an unelected three-person vetting committee rejected two successive candidates advancing an explicitly anti-war, anti-capitalist platform. The decision has sparked fierce debate about the boundaries of acceptable political discourse within the country’s social democratic party.
02/02/26
Author: 
Progressive International
Mappa, 1979 - 1983 Alighiero Boetti

Jan. 2, 2026

In the Progressive International's fourth Briefing of 2026, we examine a world ruled by a tiny elite — and the growing international front determined to dismantle global apartheid and build a new order.

Fewer than 60,000 people — the richest 0.001% — now control three times more wealth than half of humanity combined.

That is our world’s balance sheet: a planet of over eight billion people ruled, in practice, by a rounding error.

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