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27/08/25
Author: 
Laurel M. Owns
Shipping routes to Israel from Canada

August 27, 2025 

26/08/25
Author: 
Chris Armitage
We live in a fascist nation - what now?

Aug. 13, 2025

Once they win elections, it's already too late.

In 1933, German conservatives thought they could control Hitler. Two years later, they were being executed in their own homes. I spent weeks researching this question, desperately looking for counter-examples, for hope, for any time in history where people successfully stopped fascists after they started winning elections.

26/08/25
Author: 
Tiffany Crawford
File photo of an oil and gas protest in Vancouver. The International Court of Justice has recently stated that countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change. Photo by Jason Payne /PNG

Aug. 23, 2025

The United Nations’ top court says countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change.

An international court ruling on climate change has prompted 34 local groups to call on the B.C. government for stronger climate action, including phasing out fossil fuels.

 

26/08/25
Author: 
Adam Radwanski
B.C.'s Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions Adrian Dix has publicly acknowledged that the province needs work to hit its target of a 40-per-cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2007 levels by 2030. ETHAN CAIRNS/The Canadian Press

Aug. 22, 2025

Adrian Dix wants British Columbia to be like Norway.

The province’s Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions expressed that aspiration during a recent, lengthy interview in his Vancouver riding. It would mean being a leading supplier of fossil fuels to the world, while also being a leader in the pivot away from them domestically.

23/08/25
Author: 
Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
Over half of Canada is in drought, and it's having deep impacts that mean some rain doesn't solve the problem. British Columbia has been in drought since 2022, and in 2023, the Thompson River east of Kamloops, B.C. hit one of its lowest points in recent history, during a historic drought and under a sky hazy with wildfire smoke. Photo: Jesse Winter / The Narwhal

Aug. 15, 2025

A rush of water-hungry AI data centres is just one reason to rethink industrial water use, as drought becomes a real, year-round problem across Canada

We got rain — so our drought concerns are over, right?

23/08/25
Author: 
 Martin Hart-Landsberg
AI parrot

August 10, 2025  

Big tech companies continue to spend massive amounts of money building ever more powerful generative AI (artificial intelligence) systems and ever larger data centers to run them, all the while losing billions of dollars with no likely pathway to profitability. And while it remains to be seen how long the companies and their venture capital partners will keep the money taps open, popular dislike and distrust of big tech and its AI systems are rapidly growing.

23/08/25
Author: 
Alex Hemingway
mini-publics

Jul. 22, 2025

On July 17th, senior economist Alex Hemingway provided recommendations to the provincial legislature’s Special Committee on Democratic and Electoral Reform. Following is Alex’s presentation to the committee.

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