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13/02/25
Author: 
Glen Williams, Stewart Phillip
To counter the nihilistic vision of U.S. President Donald Trump and the MAGA billionaires now taking over the U.S. government, we must work together to build a bright and shining alternative, write Glen Williams/Malii and Stewart Phillip. Photo by Brandon Bell /THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Feb. 12, 2025

Clean water, food security, and healthy communities are how we will outlast Trump

Some B.C. politicians are using the trade war threat posed by President Donald Trump to push for no-holds-barred resource extraction on First Nations lands.

12/02/25
Author: 
Tony Richardson
Cory Doctorow

Nov. 1, 2023

In this insightful book review, Tony Richardson summarises and analyses Cory Doctorow's compelling arguments in his latest book about how a few powerful technology companies have come to dominate the internet and other industries.

First of all, Doctorow deals with how Big Tech took control of the internet. He argues that Lovelace, Turing, and others pioneered the internet. In other words, Amazon could not exist without its predecessors.

12/02/25
Author: 
ruce Lourie
What does sustainable, climate-resilient, profitable farming, at scale, look like? Photo by Shutterstock

Feb. 12, 2025

The agriculture and agri-food sectors are, perhaps, the most complex, diverse and challenging sectors to work with on sustainability. There are several efforts underway in Canada, some national and some regional, some focused on smaller-scale farms and some with large industrial agri-food interests, but there is not a cohesive sense of the endgame.  What does sustainable, climate-resilient, profitable farming, at scale, look like?

12/02/25
Author: 
Leah Borts-Kuperman
Dr. Sébastien Sauvé, University of Montreal professor of environmental chemistry, with one of his collection bottles. Photo by: Bastien Doudaine

Feb. 12, 2025

For years, Sébastien Sauvé, a professor of environmental chemistry at the University of Montreal, would go to public places, like Tim Horton’s, with an empty water bottle in his jacket. Sauvé would make his way back to the bathroom sink and fill his bottle — not to drink, but to take to his lab and test for harmful chemicals in Quebec’s drinking water.

11/02/25
Author: 
Damien Gayle
A police officer appears to film Just Stop Oil activists on Whitehall near Parliament Square on Saturday, May 20, 2023. Photo by Alisdare Hickson/Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Feb. 11, 2025

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

11/02/25
Author: 
Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East
Trump and Gaza

 Feb. 11, 2025 

10/02/25
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
BC Premier David Eby has promised to ‘expedite’ 19 natural resource projects in the face of a possible trade war with the United States. Photo via BC government Flickr.

Feb. 10, 2025

It’s been floated as a remedy to trade instability with the US. But experts raise four key caveats.

08/02/25
Author: 
Zain Haq
Climate activist Zain Haq. Photo by Ian Harland

Feb. 3, 2025

I write this as I sit in Karachi, Pakistan, after deportation from Canada because of my nonviolent activism on the climate crisis. My activism, and that of my Canadian wife, Sophie, is on hold as we chart our course through a life in exile and hope for reunification in Canada. 

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