B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is pitching new laws targeting provincial environmental groups as part of his party’s strategy to combat U.S. tariff threats.
Flanked by billboards reading “US millionaires are funding the destruction of B.C. economy” at a press conference Monday, Rustad argued the province needs legislation to ban B.C.-based environmental groups from receiving any U.S. funding for climate campaigns against oil and gas companies.
It’s been almost a decade since Mark Carney took the podium during a candlelit meal in the immense Underwriting Room at Lloyd's of London and threw a stink bomb at the black tied bigwigs of international finance.
“I’m going to give you a speech without a joke, I’m afraid,” Carney began. And then, after the requisite “grateful for the invitation” and up-buttering, Carney gave what’s been known ever since as the Tragedy of the Horizon speech.
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.
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?
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.
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.
