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30/08/25
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
A person uses an umbrella for shade as they walk on Parliament Hill in Ottawa in June, 2024. Advocates say that the potential impacts of climate change on Canadian retirement plans has been understated by the country's chief actuary. Photo by: Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press

Aug. 28, 2025

The federal office tasked with ensuring the long-term health of Canadians’ pensions is underestimating one of the biggest threats to people’s retirement plans — climate change, says an advocacy group. 

The Office of the Chief Actuary (OCA) is failing to capture the financial risks of climate change in its long-term assessments of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) and other public funds, warned advocacy group Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health in an email to Chief Actuary Assia Billig early this morning. 

30/08/25
Author: 
Derek Seidman
Climate activists rally outside Bank of America Tower in Midtown Manhattan as part of the March to End Fossil Fuels on September 19, 2023. Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images

Aug. 25, 2025

Big banks across the world are substantially increasing their financing of the fossil fuel industry, including for the industry’s expansion during a time of intensifying climate crisis, all while pulling back from previously stated climate commitments.

29/08/25
Author: 
Isaac Phan Nay
Experts say growing inequality is the result of government policy choices, steep hikes in executive pay and gains for the top-earning one per cent. Image via Shutterstock.

Aug. 25, 2025

Canada’s income gap reached a record high this year. How did we get here?

The gap between Canada’s haves and have-nots has never been bigger.

29/08/25
Author: 
Bill Fletcher, Jr. In These Times
Jaime Contreras, Executive Vice President of SEIU labor union 32BJ, speaks during an immigrant rights protest outside of the Department of Justice headquarters in Washington, D.C. on June 9, 2025. ,BRYAN DOZIER/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images

Aug. 26, 2025

For unions to survive, they must embrace antifascism.

In countries across the capitalist world, trade union movements are being challenged to their very core by the growth of right-wing populist and neofascist mass movements. What makes this situation especially dangerous is that labor unions and supporters are facing not just maniacal leaders or even military juntas, but a strengthening political alignment between segments of the capitalist class and these same right-wing social movements.

27/08/25
Author: 
Laurel M. Owns
Shipping routes to Israel from Canada

August 27, 2025 

26/08/25
Author: 
Chris Armitage
We live in a fascist nation - what now?

Aug. 13, 2025

Once they win elections, it's already too late.

In 1933, German conservatives thought they could control Hitler. Two years later, they were being executed in their own homes. I spent weeks researching this question, desperately looking for counter-examples, for hope, for any time in history where people successfully stopped fascists after they started winning elections.

26/08/25
Author: 
Tiffany Crawford
File photo of an oil and gas protest in Vancouver. The International Court of Justice has recently stated that countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change. Photo by Jason Payne /PNG

Aug. 23, 2025

The United Nations’ top court says countries could be in violation of international law if they fail to take measures to protect the planet from climate change.

An international court ruling on climate change has prompted 34 local groups to call on the B.C. government for stronger climate action, including phasing out fossil fuels.

 

26/08/25
Author: 
Adam Radwanski
B.C.'s Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions Adrian Dix has publicly acknowledged that the province needs work to hit its target of a 40-per-cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2007 levels by 2030. ETHAN CAIRNS/The Canadian Press

Aug. 22, 2025

Adrian Dix wants British Columbia to be like Norway.

The province’s Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions expressed that aspiration during a recent, lengthy interview in his Vancouver riding. It would mean being a leading supplier of fossil fuels to the world, while also being a leader in the pivot away from them domestically.

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