Canada

21/08/26
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
Danielle Smith’s latest video attempts to sell data centres to the people of Alberta. Photo illustration by The Tyee.

Premier Danielle Smith, I just watched your latest video pitching the transformation of Alberta into an industrial AI powerhouse. I have some notes.

21/08/26
Author: 
Nashwa Lina Khan
Image source: iStock

Jul. 2, 2026

Israel’s ongoing genocide is the fascists’ blueprint for the world they seek to construct

Gaza has long been a warning of a new world order, now it is a blueprint—a testing ground, genocide laboratory, space of exception. The smaller of the two Palestinian territories has exposed how the limits of permissible bloodshed are tested, refined, and exported into broader global practice.

21/08/26
Author: 
Nathan Griffiths
B.C. spent an average of $525 million a year on wildfire suppression from 2016-2025. This is the Bald Range fire near Summerland on Aug. 10. Photo by B.C. Wildfire Service /Government of B.C.

“To be honest, there aren’t really good data on the cost of climate change,” co-author Andy Hira said, something he attributed to “willful ignorance” among policy-makers reluctant to link fossil fuel production to the costs it helps create.

Aug. 19, 2026

22/07/26
Author: 
Max Fawcett
Mark Carney has spent much of the summer talking up the importance of fossil fuels. Now, with wildfire smoke covering large parts of eastern Canada, it might be time for him to do the same for the other side of the energy equation. File photo by: Natasha Bulowski / Canada's National Observer

Jul. 21, 2026

Mark Carney wants to make Canada more like Norway. He has some work to do

It’s back. As dangerous wildfire smoke blanketed much of the northeast part of our continent, the conversation about our new climate change-driven normal returned with a depressingly predictable vengeance. So too did the loopy comments from Republican politicians in the United States, reflecting a fundamental misunderstanding of both climate science and geographic realities. 

17/07/26
Author: 
BC Climate Emergency Campaign
BCCEC

Jul. 15, 2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Prominent New Democrats and community leaders raise the alarm over Premier Eby + caucus support for LNG and call for renewed provincial climate leadership, amid worsening climate disasters
Signatories in open letter say British Columbia no longer has a climate plan

08/07/26
Author: 
Kyle Bakx, Nora Young, Rukhsar Ali ·
A boom in hyperscale AI data centres in Canada is coming, promising economic opportunity and tech sovereignty, but as CBC’s Nora Young explains, there’s a growing resistance to the impact the massive, power-hungry facilities have on local communities.

Jun.4, 2026

So far, Canada has 5 hyperscale data centres. Another 96 are in development.

Video: watch here: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7222364

A new national AI strategy by the federal government this week comes at a time when the country is confronting a wave of new high-powered data centres, while public sentiment could be souring on the impacts of the new technology.

08/07/26
Author: 
Charlie Angus
Protestors marching on May 23 raised concerns about the impact of the AI data centres as Metro Vancouver faces tighter water restrictions. (Anaïs Elboujdaïni/Radio-Canada)

Jul. 8, 2026

Last month, Wired Magazine reported that Chinese researchers are growing increasingly concerned about the danger of a “Chernobyl” moment in the race to create superhuman intelligence.

The AI arms race, involving China, the United States, and a range of private-sector interests, is unfolding at a dizzying pace. It is a race to create the ultimate power machine, and there are no guardrails or protections for the public.

One Chinese researcher stated that it is like “driving faster and faster while the road gets narrower and the fog gets thicker.”

05/07/26
Author: 
Mitchell Beer
Shattered glass by Jef Poskanzer CC 2.0/wikimedia commons

 

Carney finally shows which side he's on! FIGHT ON FOR THE CHILDREN!!!!

      - Gene McGuckin

Jul. 5, 2026

Carney seals the pipeline deal, and his energy minister touts a $43-billion taxpayer bailout as a good investment. Would you buy a used “energy superpower” strategy from these guys?

“Trust is probably the most sought-after commodity now.”

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