Canada

What’s at Stake During DULF’s [Drug User Liberation Front] Constitutional Challenge

02/12/25

Author:

Michelle Gamage

Link:

The Tyee

Jeremy Kalicum leaves court on Nov. 7. Sentencing for his criminal charges is on hold while the provincial court of BC considers his compassion club’s constitutional challenge. Photo for The Tyee by Michelle Gamage.

Dec. 2, 2025

The case’s outcome could affect the founders’ criminal charges, and Canadian drug laws. A Tyee explainer.

Drug User Liberation Front founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum are back in court arguing their compassion club members’ constitutional rights were violated by part of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

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British Columbia

Canada

Social

Thomas King and the Problem with Indigenous ‘Heroes’

02/12/25

Author:

Celeste Pedri-Spade

Link:

The Tyee

Thomas King is presented the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction in 2014. Photo by Patrick Doyle, the Canadian Press.

Dec. 1, 2025

These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries such as publishing, media and academia. Not by us.

Years ago, when I first began researching Indigenous identity theft — something that intrigued me intellectually and impacted me personally — I remember trying to explain it to my Indigenous family members back home in northwestern Ontario.

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Canada

Indigenous Peoples

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Did the climate world misread Carney?

01/12/25

Author:

John Woodside

Link:

National Observer

Dec. 1, 2025

Mark Carney, the central banker, was the thought leader the climate movement needed: someone who could translate the reality of climate change into the language of finance. As prime minister, he is torching the country’s climate policies, while pouring government time and resources into new fossil fuel infrastructure. To state the obvious, these are not the decisions of a climate champion.

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A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won’t Admit

01/12/25

Author:

Andrew Nikiforuk

Link:

The Tyee

The plan to daily pump 1.4 million more barrels of bitumen includes expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline, shown here being buried in Abbotsford, BC, in 2023. Photo by Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press.

Dec. 1, 2025

An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.

Lo and behold, Prime Minister Mark Carney, a global banker, and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a petro-populist à la Donald Trump, have big energy plans for Canadians.

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The method to Mark Carney’s madness

29/11/25

Author:

Max Fawcett

Link:

National Observer

Mark Carney's "grand bargain" with Alberta represents a big swing on an important issue for the prime minister. Photo by Natasha Bulowski

"Gripping Article/Discussion on Carney Pipeline Deal "- Gene McGuckin

Nov. 27, 2025

Liberal prime ministers aren’t supposed to get standing ovations in Calgary, much less from a room packed full of mostly-Conservative business leaders and provincial cabinet ministers who spent the better part of a decade honing their hatred of the Trudeau government. But Mark Carney, for better or worse — more on that in a moment — is clearly not your average Liberal prime minister. After all, he got two standing ovations.

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Climate Change and Labour Precarity: A Worker-Centred Agenda

28/11/25

Author:

Leah Montange

Link:

The Bullet

Nov. 28, 2025

Just as the COP30 meeting in Belen, Brazil, has ended, the last week of November is Canada Climate Week Xchange. We could hope this is good news, but instead of the week’s activities being sponsored by traditional climate organizations or climate innovators, it is organized by the Toronto Stock Exchange.

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Solidarity With Postal Workers' Fightback

28/11/25

Author:

Johannes Joachim

Link:

The Media Coop

Nov. 20, 2025

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Canada

Labour - Unions

UBCIC Strongly Rejects Canada–Alberta Pipeline MOU that Ignores First Nations Rights and Threatens Environment

28/11/25

Author:

Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs - UBCIC

Link:

UBCIC

News Release
November 27, 2025

UBCIC Strongly Rejects Canada–Alberta Pipeline MOU that Ignores First Nations Rights and Threatens Environment

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Canada Calls Its Reactors Peaceful. It’s Not So Simple

28/11/25

Author:

Michael Harris i

Link:

The Tyee

Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, announces $3 billion in funding for a new kind of nuclear reactor with Ontario Premier Doug Ford in Ontario on Oct. 23. Photo by Laura Proctor, the Canadian Press.

Nov. 28, 2025

A venerable anti-nuclear war group says Carney’s SMR funding could fuel a new arms race.

With the planet running a carbon-induced fever and desperate to replace fossil fuels, Canada is one of the countries turning to nuclear energy.

Not everyone is pleased. That includes a 45-year-old organization known as the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War.

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Carney's latest pipedream (fraud) explained

26/11/25

Author:

John Woodside

Link:

National Observer

Nov. 26, 2025

A forthcoming deal between the federal government and Alberta for a new oil pipeline, reportedly set to be announced Thursday, promises to ignite a political firestorm.

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Canada

The case’s outcome could affect the founders’ criminal charges, and Canadian drug laws. A Tyee explainer.

These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries such as publishing, media and academia. Not by us.

An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.

A venerable anti-nuclear war group says Carney’s SMR funding could fuel a new arms race.

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