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26/02/26
Author: 
Iglika Ivanova , co-Executive Director Veronique Sioufi , Racial Equity Researcher and Policy Analyst, BC Policy Solutions
Making Sense of BC Budget 2026

Feb. 17, 2026

Budgets are about choices.

With Budget 2026, the BC government has prioritized deficit and debt reduction at the expense of public investment that could have made life more affordable for BC families and built a more equitable future for the next generation.

26/02/26
Author: 
Joey Grostern
Illustration green washing the globe

Feb. 25, 2026

Big Tech accused of AI ‘greenwashing’ - A new report has found that “the promises of planet-saving tech remain hollow.”

The big tech industry’s claims about the climate benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are largely unproven and unsubstantiated, according to a new report from a coalition of climate advocacy and accountability groups.

24/02/26
Author: 
Damian Carrington
Economic models assume the future will behave like the past, despite the burning of fossil fuels pushing the Earth into uncharted territory. Photograph: Mohamed Messara/EPA

Feb. 5, 2026

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

Flawed economic models mean the accelerating impact of the climate crisis could lead to a global financial crash, experts warn.

Recovery would be far harder than after the 2008 financial crash, they said, as “we can’t bail out the Earth like we did the banks”.

23/02/26
Author: 
Emmett Macfarlane
Premier Danielle Smith’s TV address set out ‘a cruel, inherently racist agenda, straight from the far-right populist playbook in the United States.’ Photo by Amber Bracken, the Canadian Press.

Feb. 23, 2026 

The premier’s referendum plan is destructive, divisive and ultimately evil.

In a televised address Thursday night Alberta Premier Danielle Smith launched a xenophobic assault on immigration and proposed a set of referendum questions for this fall advocating a constitutional agenda that would reduce Canada to a rump of pathetic, disaggregated fiefdoms.

19/02/26
Author: 
Better Transit - Victoria
Better Transit YYJ - Capital Region

February 17th, Victoria BC

 

Transit advocates are warning that proposed BC Transit funding cuts tee up a disastrous scenario for transit services across the province.

 

Budget 2026, released Feb 17th, freezes all transit funding, necessitating service cuts across the province.

18/02/26
Author: 
Gary Wilson, Struggle - La Lucha.
photo: Minneapolis, Jan. 23.

Feb. 3, 2026

The first week of January, Trump sent 2,000 ICE paramilitary agents into Minneapolis, targeting Somali neighborhoods, along with Hmong and Latine communities, and turning the city into a domestic war zone. 

17/02/26
Author: 
Chris Hatch
Chefs prepare to cook buns in a solar cooker that using a metal and glass vacuum tube heated by mirrors curved to capture the sun's heat in Dezhou in the eastern Shandong province in China. This is just one clean energy innovation helping China to reduce its carbon emissions. Photo by: Fu Ting/AP

Feb. 17, 2026

It’s being hailed as “the biggest and most consequential climate story in the world right now,” by people in the know: after decades of soaring climate pollution, China may have cut carbon emissions last year.

16/02/26
Author: 
BC Health Coalition
Rally to Save Public Health Care

4,359 kilometres travelled.
13 provinces and territories represented.
200 advocates.
100 meetings with Senators and MPs.

15/02/26
Author: 
Taylor Noakes
President Donald Trump. Credit: Gage Skidmore (CC by 2.0)

Feb 6, 2026

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has invested billions in fossil fuel expansion in the United States since Trump’s return to office.

The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is financing — and profiting from — U.S. President Donald Trump’s fossil fuel and AI development agenda, DeSmog has learned.

The CPPIB has invested billions in fossil fuel expansion in the U.S. since Trump’s return to office. It has partnered with private equity firms to acquire American oil and gas producers, and financed AI companies like Elon Musk’s xAI.

15/02/26
Author: 
Amnesty International

13 Feb. 2026

Reacting to calls by ministers and officials in France and Czechia for Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, to resign, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said:

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