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08/04/23
Author: 
David Klein ,
Environmental activists chain themselves to construction equipment at a Line 3 pipeline pumping station near Itasca State Park, Minnesota, on June 7, 2021. KEREM YUCEL / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

Apr. 7, 2023

As corporations build fossil fuel infrastructure despite protests, we must take the tactic of sabotage seriously.

The environmental movement has offered waves of demonstrations, petition drives, lobbying and other forms of protest. Yet, despite all that, Earth and its inhabitants are losing the war waged against us by capitalism. It follows that a reevaluation of strategy and tactics of the environmental movement is in order, including a closer examination of how nonviolence should be understood and practiced.

08/04/23
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Cobalt mining in Congo, says journalist Siddharth Kara, ‘drags humanity back to a time when the people of Africa were valued only their replacement cost.’ Photo via Harvard Kennedy School.

Apr. 7, 2023

The Rising Chorus of Renewable Energy Skeptics

The green techno-dream is so vastly destructive, they say, ‘we have to come up with a different plan.’

06/04/23
Author: 
Bob Weber
Discoloured water, later found to be groundwater contaminated with oilsands tailings

Apr. 5, 2023

The Alberta government waited a month before calling an emergency response to one of the biggest releases of oilsands tailings in the province's history, a leaked document shows.

06/04/23
Author: 
John Woodside
Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs Gisdaya and Na'Moks and other representatives from the nation attend RBC's annual shareholder meeting in Saskatoon on April 5, 2023. Photo by Katie Wilson

Apr. 6, 2023

Indigenous leaders and climate advocates say they were met with the “highest insult” Wednesday as security guards turned them away from the main room of RBC's annual shareholder meeting in Saskatoon.

05/04/23
Author: 
Bridgette Watson
City of Vancouver employees work to dismantle tents in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver on Wednesday, April 5, 2023. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

Apr. 5, 2023

Police moved into Vancouver's Downtown Eastside on Wednesday morning as the city began carrying out its plan to remove a street encampment from the neighbourhood.

East Hastings Street, where people have been living in tents and make-shift structures, has been shut down at Main Street while the process begins.

05/04/23
Author: 
Francesca Fionda
‘Every single person that could, helped someone,’ recalls Michele Feist, who escaped a burning Lytton amidst a heat dome’s record-shattering temperatures. In this series you will meet Feist and more than a dozen more climate disaster survivors. Photo by Philip McLachlan.

Apr. 3, 2023

Bracing for Disasters

Climate calamities will increase in BC. What can we learn from survivors? What must be done to help evacuees and save lives? A special Tyee series.

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02/04/23
Author: 
Brett Wilkins
Pope Francis meets with Indigenous leaders in Maskwa Park, Alberta, Canada on July 25, 2022. (Photo: Ron Palmer/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Mar. 31, 2023

One Native American group hopes the historic move "is more than mere words, but rather is the beginning of a full acknowledgment of the history of oppression and a full accounting of the legacies of colonialism."

In a historic shift long sought by Indigenous-led activists, the Holy See on Thursday formally repudiated the doctrine of discovery, a dubious legal theory born from a series of 15th-century papal decrees used by colonizers including the United States to legally justify the genocidal conquest of non-Christian peoples and their land.

02/04/23
Author: 
Ian Bailey, The Globe and Mail
File photo. Premier John Horgan makes an announcement about oil and gas royalties at the B.C. legislature in Victoria on Thursday, May 19, 2022. Government of B.C.

Apr. 1, 2023

John Horgan is joining the board of Elk Valley Resources, an enterprise that is in the process of being spun off from Vancouver-based Teck Resources

Former British Columbia premier John Horgan is taking a job in the coal industry, and says he is not worried about the criticism the move may draw.

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