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13/06/25
Author: 
Bruce McIvor
tunnel

Jun. 12, 2025

In a misguided frenzy of ‘cutting red tape’ and fast-tracking major infrastructure projects, governments across Canada are creating the conditions for their own failure. 

 

Ontario and British Columbia have been the first to jump off a cliff without a parachute. The federal government is inching towards the edge. 

 

13/06/25
Author: 
Arno Kopecky
David Huntley on his home patio overlooking Burrard Inlet, where Aframax tankers pass by almost every day to load up on bitumen from the Trans Mountain pipeline's terminus at Westridge Marine Terminal, just out of sight below the treeline. Photo by Arno Kopecky/Canada's National Observer

Jun. 10, 2025

Every morning, David Huntley checks on the oil tanker traffic outside his home. He can see them cruise up Burrard Inlet from his living room window a few hundred metres above Westridge Marine Terminal, where the Trans Mountain pipeline ends. When I popped by for a visit on June 3, an Aframax called the Tyrrhenian Sea had just docked and was partly visible through a thicket of trees. Last time Huntley saw it here was April 20; since then, it has been to China and back. 

13/06/25
Author: 
Socialist Project
End Gaza Genocide

June 13, 2025

We write as a concerned group of 412 Canadians, including academics, lawyers, former and retired ambassadors (including to the United Nations), ministers and public servants, UN human rights experts, and civil society, labour and faith leaders, all deeply concerned with the catastrophic human rights and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, now into its twentieth month.

11/06/25
Author: 
Isaac Phan Nay
Vancity’s BCGEU members are mulling a strike over wages and pensions. Photo for The Tyee by Isaac Phan Nay.

June 11, 2025

Why Vancity Members Said No to a Board Raise

Difficult union negotiations and employee layoffs have led to growing tensions.

10/06/25
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
The server mills that run AI need vast amounts of energy and water. You can expect higher monthly utility bills. Photo via Shutterstock.

Jun. 10, 2025

The energy appetite of data centres is boundless and ruinous. But Alberta and BC are eager to cater.

08/06/25
Author: 
Elliot Goodell Ugalde and Natalie Braun
Workers’ right to unionize and bargain collectively was a response to a power imbalance with employers. Tenants face the same unfair situation today. Photo by annapolis_rose, Creative Commons licensed.

Jun. 4, 2025

08/06/25
Author: 
Sonal Gupta
Aerial view of Prince Rupert, the coastal hub linked to the PRGT pipeline project, which secured its environmental permit to operate indefinitely. Photo by Flickr/ Dennis Sylvester Hurd ( CC BY 2.0)

Jun. 6, 2025

The Prince Rupert gas pipeline project is “substantially started” and will keep its valid environmental certificate for the life of the pipeline, the BC Environmental Assessment Office has ruled.

The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline is jointly owned by the Nisga’a Nation and Western LNG, but other First Nations and environmentalists say the decision favours corporate interests over climate commitments and Indigenous rights.

08/06/25
Author: 
Chris Hatch
This photo provided by the Manitoba government shows wildfires in Sherridon, Man., on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Government of Manitoba)

Jun. 8, 2025

It takes a lot to make Simon Donner lose his cool. The co-chair of the feds’ advisory group on climate policy has a daily practice of swimming in the Pacific and braves the frigid water all winter long. But he couldn’t bear the blather about “decarbonized oil” spilling from the first ministers’ meeting this week.

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