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19/11/25
Author: 
Jen St. Denis
‘Influencers have become the information brokers of the internet, setting the pace for political conversation that traditional political parties, media outlets and advocacy organizations struggle to match.’ Photo for The Tyee by Jen St. Denis.

Nov. 19, 2025

A study shows that social media creators have overtaken news media and party campaigns.

Influencers have overtaken news media and political campaigns in leading public engagement with political issues on social media, according to a study by the Media Ecosystem Observatory.

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19/11/25
Author: 
atasha Bulowski John Woodside
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to reporters before chairing a cabinet meeting on Nov. 18, 2025. Photo by: Natasha Bulowski / Canada's National Observer

Nov. 19, 2026

The federal budget survived another critical confidence vote, but the timing is preventing Canadian officials from participating in key international climate negotiations now going down to the wire in Brazil.

MPs must be in Canada to vote electronically, so Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin and Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Steven Guilbeault, effectively the country’s nature minister, flew back from COP30 last Friday to cast their votes in favour of the federal budget.

 

19/11/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to reporters before question period on Oct. 9, 2025. Photo by Natasha Bulowski/Canada's National Observer

Website editor: Reconciliation?!

Nov. 19, 2025

The federal government is open to helping First Nations buy into the Ksi Lisims LNG export terminal or its related infrastructure as opposition to the projects grows.

17/11/25
Author: 
John Woodside
A rendering of Eagle's Nest via Wyloo.

Nov. 17, 2025

A battle is brewing between a mining company owned by Australian billionaires and the Neskantaga First Nation — and federal officials are sitting on the fence. 

16/11/25
Author: 
EcoCultureLab and SFU
How Another World Might be Possible (Nov. 4, 2025)

Nov. 4, 2025

The most recent “Radical Hope in Feverish Times” webinar is now available to be viewed. It featured Brian Tokar of the Institute for Social Ecology and Arthur Pye of the Emergency Committee on Rojava.

You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irCtcAdeUgo

16/11/25
Author: 
Peter G. Prontzos
leanor Finley Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond - Book Cover

Nov. 16, 2025

Review of Eleanor Finley Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond, Pluto Press, 2025, by Peter G. Prontzos

Vancouver (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Murray Bookchin was one of the most significant thinkers – and activists – in the 20th century, beginning with his pioneering ecological analysis, Our Synthetic Environment, which was published over six decades ago (1962).

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