Canada

20/11/25
Author: 
Geoff Meggs
Premier David Eby’s speech at the NDP convention in Victoria Saturday was part of a successful campaign to maintain party support. Photo by Chad Hipolito, the Canadian Press.

Website editor: Also missing: the existential climate crisis? growing inequality, (taxing wealth?), the cost of living?

Nov. 20, 2025

20/11/25
Author: 
Alex Cosh
Graphic assembled by The Maple staff using photo of shipping container by Markus Winkler via Unsplash with colour filter and Israeli flag added by The Maple staff, and photo of soldiers by Niamat Ullah via Unsplash with black and white filter added by The Maple staff.

Nov. 20, 2025

A transcript of a testimony given by The Maple’s news editor at a “people’s tribunal” on Canadian complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Below is a transcript of a testimony given by The Maple’s news editor, Alex Cosh, at a “people’s tribunal” on Canadian complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The conference was held in Ottawa on November 14 and 15.

I’m going to speak today about Canada’s purchases of Israeli weapons, military equipment and technology. 

19/11/25
Author: 
Jen St. Denis
‘Influencers have become the information brokers of the internet, setting the pace for political conversation that traditional political parties, media outlets and advocacy organizations struggle to match.’ Photo for The Tyee by Jen St. Denis.

Nov. 19, 2025

A study shows that social media creators have overtaken news media and party campaigns.

Influencers have overtaken news media and political campaigns in leading public engagement with political issues on social media, according to a study by the Media Ecosystem Observatory.

Category: 
19/11/25
Author: 
atasha Bulowski John Woodside
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to reporters before chairing a cabinet meeting on Nov. 18, 2025. Photo by: Natasha Bulowski / Canada's National Observer

Nov. 19, 2026

The federal budget survived another critical confidence vote, but the timing is preventing Canadian officials from participating in key international climate negotiations now going down to the wire in Brazil.

MPs must be in Canada to vote electronically, so Environment and Climate Change Minister Julie Dabrusin and Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture Steven Guilbeault, effectively the country’s nature minister, flew back from COP30 last Friday to cast their votes in favour of the federal budget.

 

19/11/25
Author: 
John Woodside
Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to reporters before question period on Oct. 9, 2025. Photo by Natasha Bulowski/Canada's National Observer

Website editor: Reconciliation?!

Nov. 19, 2025

The federal government is open to helping First Nations buy into the Ksi Lisims LNG export terminal or its related infrastructure as opposition to the projects grows.

17/11/25
Author: 
John Woodside
A rendering of Eagle's Nest via Wyloo.

Nov. 17, 2025

A battle is brewing between a mining company owned by Australian billionaires and the Neskantaga First Nation — and federal officials are sitting on the fence. 

15/11/25
Author: 
Judith Lavoie
Increased herring catches proposed for 2026 could wipe out stocks of the critical food source for salmon, halibut, whales and seabirds, say environmental groups. Photo via Pacific Wild.

Nov. 14, 2025

The DFO proposes to expand the fishery. Environmental groups and the W̱SÁNEĆ fear disaster.

A small, oily fish at the heart of B.C.’s coastal food web will likely disappear without an immediate moratorium on commercial herring fishing, say Saanich First Nations Hereditary Chiefs and conservation groups.

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