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28/07/25
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NUPGE
Gaza children

July 28, 2025  

We are witnessing unimaginable suffering in Gaza, as Israel uses starvation as a weapon of war through its blockade and militarized aid system.

People in Gaza are dying from malnutrition and hunger-related illnesses. This week, over 100 humanitarian organizations warned of mass starvation in Gaza. Aid workers, health care workers, and journalists cannot do their jobs because they, too, are facing starvation.

28/07/25
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
Jason Alexander’s mill is going without logs, as the local community forest sells to pulp mills in Prince George. Photo supplied.

July 25, 2025

Why does so much community forest timber end up as wood chips instead of higher-end products? A Tyee investigation.

14/07/25
Author: 
Zoë Yunker
Toxins leak from a crumpled storage tank at the bankrupted Port Alice mill. Due to lax regulations, the BC public will pay for cleanup. Photo via PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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?

13/07/25
Author: 
Sam Gindin
‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call

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’.

11/07/25
Author: 
Seth Klein
Prime Minister Mark Carney holds a closing press conference following the NATO Summit in The Hague, Netherlands on Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Photo by: Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press

July 9, 2025

I have spent the past five years arguing that we need a “wartime” approach to confront the climate crisis. It seems metaphor is not our government’s strong suit – their imagination for a wartime approach is limited to, well, war.

10/07/25
Author: 
Erick Villagomez
Bigger and even bigger: Approved transformation of a Commercial Drive hub adds storeys to this 2024 version, and goes far beyond a 2015 citizens’ plan. Artist rendering via Crombie REIT/Westbank Corp.

July 10, 2025

Loosened restraints mean owning and flipping land, not building on it, is the real financial game.

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