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Sept.29, 2026

Compassion club co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum will avoid prison and Canada told to update its drug laws.

Drug User Liberation Front co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum will not face jail time, Justice Catherine Murray ruled this morning.

Oct. 2, 2026

Announcing funding to prepare BC for oil spills is ‘a warning sign all on its own,’ UBCIC women’s rep says.

Ending months of speculation, today the Carney government designated the West Coast oil pipeline a project of national interest, sidestepping environmental safeguards that have been in place for decades and charting a course that could irrevocably alter the Salish Sea.

Oct. 1, 2026

Despite Eby’s ‘buy Canadian’ focus, a firm with MAGA connections is the likely contract winner.

At a time when British Columbia Premier David Eby is championing buying Canadian, BC Ferries may be preparing to enter a multi-year agreement to buy fuel from an American-owned company with strong ties to U.S. President Donald Trump and the governing Republicans.

The National Post has never tried to hide its hatred of social-democratic politicians. Over-the-top, incendiary language is part of this American-owned media chain’s playbook. So, needless to say, I don’t tend to pay much attention to their columnists.

But a recent column on New Democratic Party leader Avi Lewis crossed the line into an extremist hate threat. It needs to be called out.

Sept. 29, 2026

Reflections on a different emergency (with thoughts for fellow Jews in Canada)

Next week, unfathomably, marks the 3^rd anniversary of the horrific October 7^th Hamas massacre, and three years of the monstrous and heart-wrenching genocide that Israel has inflicted upon Gaza.

Sept. 29, 2026

China has already implemented many rules governing the use of artificial intelligence

Recent warnings from American AI leaders have created the impression that the world is only beginning to confront the dangers of advanced artificial intelligence.

Sept. 30, 2026

Tax credits let companies pay little for resources. What do the parties say?

In 2019, Shell Canada, a subsidiary of one of the world’s biggest oil and gas companies, paid the British Columbia government not one dollar in royalty payments despite producing 175 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

Sept. 28, 2026

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