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10/03/23
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
RCMP C-IRG officers face off against occupants at Gidimt’en Camp in June 2022. At the time, police were conducting sweeps through the camp multiple times a day. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood.

Mar. 10, 2023

Documents Reveal ‘Rural Policing’ Money Is Going to the C-IRG

An RCMP unit under investigation by a federal commissioner will receive 15 per cent of the funding promised for safer communities.

09/03/23
Author: 
Kai Nagata
A proposed gas pipeline in B.C. would run through the Skeena watershed. Photo by Brian Huntington / Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition

Mar. 9, 2023

B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman will soon decide the fate of Enbridge’s Westcoast Connector Gas Transmission Project — and possibly his government. First approved in 2014, the 48-inch pipeline would carry fracked gas across a complex patchwork of sovereign territories to a new LNG terminal on the coast.

09/03/23
Author: 
Michelle Gamage
‘The irony is that [the LNG Canada plant will] be BC’s largest source of pollution but will be paying less in carbon tax than regular British Columbians filling up at a gas station,’ says Sven Biggs, Canadian oil and gas programs director. Photo via Shutterstock.

Mar. 9, 2023

BC Budget Hits Snooze on Climate Action

If governments around the world take our approach, says one expert, ‘we’re fried.’

06/03/23
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Composite: Guardian Design/CATF/AP/Getty Images

Mar. 6, 2023

Vast releases of gas, along with future ‘methane bombs’, represent huge threat – but curbing emissions would rapidly reduce global heating

More than 1,000 “super-emitter” sites gushed the potent greenhouse gas methane into the global atmosphere in 2022, the Guardian can reveal, mostly from oil and gas facilities. The worst single leak spewed the pollution at a rate equivalent to 67m running cars.

06/03/23
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
George Williams works at the Seaton Forest Products Ltd. mill near Smithers, a 24-person operation that makes a profit while creating more jobs with less raw material, challenging the assumption that bigger is better. Photo by Marty Clemens.

Feb. 6, 2023

The go-big era crushed local employers. Now Houston’s super-sized sawmill, like others, is closing. Who’s innovating a better path?

04/03/23
Author: 
Joshua Frank
Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, Ukraine.

Mar. 3, 2023

Nuclear Armageddon Games in Ukraine

The Nuclear “War” We Get in Ukraine May Not Be the One We Expect

In 1946, Albert Einstein shot off a telegram to several hundred American leaders and politicians warning that the “unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.” Einstein’s forecast remains prescient. Nuclear calamity still knocks.

04/03/23
Author: 
Stephen F. Eisenman
2001, A Space Odyssey, dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1968. Screenshot.

“The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it.” Marx, The German Ideology, 1845.

 

04/03/23
Author: 
Jake Johnson
Image Credit: Lisa Ferdinando

Mar. 4, 2023

Pharma ‘myth’ debunked as study shows US public poured $32 billion into mRNA vaccines

"Without public investment, there would be no mRNA vaccines."

Vaccine equity campaigners said Thursday that a new peer-reviewed study published in a major medical journal should put to rest the pharmaceutical industry’s “false narrative” that its own investments were responsible for the rapid development of mRNA vaccines to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

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