Ecology/Environment

July 14, 2025

Documents expose the huge cleanup BC faces for Port Alice and 11 more shut mills. Will new projects also slip off the hook?

July 13, 2025 

‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call

An all-too predictable pattern has emerged in US-Canada relations. US President Donald Trump makes Canada ‘an offer it can’t refuse’. What follows is a national gnashing of teeth, flag-waving, businesses and politicians going patriotic. The Canadian government then caves, lamenting we had ‘no choice’.

July 9, 2025

July 7, 2025

Protesters rallied against a Canadian company that aims to lead in deep-sea minerals extraction.

June 22, 2025

Eby says his position is more nuanced than a hard no, but opposes public funding for project

As Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushes for a crude oil pipeline to British Columbia's north coast, B.C. Premier David Eby says he's not simply saying no.

Instead, Eby said he's against the public funding of such a pipeline.

June 27, 2025 

6-minute video summarizes an unfolding nightmare for many Canadians and immigrants/refugees. Relief at keeping Poilievre from becoming PM is revealed as an illusion.

    -- Gene McGuckin

Jun. 19, 2025

Mark Carney’s first 100 days a blitz of pro-corporate, Trump-friendly moves

Carney has seized on Trump’s tariff crisis to push through a pro-corporate agenda that attacks Indigenous peoples, workers, and the environment

Now, it’s up to social movements to respond as quickly.

Jun. 18, 2025

June 14, 2025

Sweeping powers, level of consultation questioned as bill races through Parliament

Liberals are attempting to bulldoze their mega projects bill through Parliament, according to critics who say the legislation interferes with Indigenous rights, environmental protection and democracy itself.

The government's One Canadian Economy Act is generating controversy inside and outside the House of Commons, with some arguing it confers king-like powers to rush projects deemed in the national interest to completion.