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28/01/26
Author: 
Michelle Gamage
On Monday, DULF’s legal team questioned a Health Canada witness on the agency’s approach to safer supply. Photo for The Tyee by Michelle Gamage.

Jan. 28, 2026

Justice Catherine Murray said witness Eric Costen appeared to be ‘guessing’ in his responses on the stand.

Health Canada’s witness in the Drug User Liberation Front’s judicial review trial frustrated the judge and highlighted how opaque and frustrating Canadian drug policy can be.

28/01/26
Author: 
Christopher Alcantara and Philip Zuidema
In BC, a political staffer was fired for saying that flying the orange Survivors’ flag at the legislature was a disgrace. Photo via BC government.

Jan. 28, 2026

Over the last decade, Canada has positioned itself as a leader in pursuing reconciliation with its Indigenous Peoples.

28/01/26
Author: 
Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
Businessman Jim Pattison returns to his seat after speaking during a Canada's Walk of Fame ceremony honouring him in Vancouver on Friday Feb. 15, 2019. File photo by: Darryl Dyck / The Canadian Press

Jan. 26, 2026

Activists are urging BC billionaire Jim Pattison — Canada's fifth-richest person — not to sell a warehouse his company owns in Virginia to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for use as a detention centre. 

Last Thursday, officials from Hanover County, VA said they had received a letter from the Department of Homeland Security, which is responsible for ICE, about purchasing the 17.6 hectare property, the Lewiston 95 Logistics Centre, "in support of ICE operations." 

28/01/26
Author: 
Jen St. Denis
Vancouver businessman Jim Pattison’s range of holdings includes a warehouse in Virginia that ICE wants to buy and convert into a detention centre. Photo by Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press.

Jan. 27, 2026

Trump’s immigration enforcement agency wants to buy a warehouse for a ‘processing centre’ in Virginia.

The leader of the BC Green Party is calling for a boycott of Save-On-Foods and other businesses owned by B.C. billionaire Jimmy Pattison.

27/01/26
Author: 
Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson

Jan. 25, 2026

As the nation mourned the killing of VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti yesterday at the hands of federal officials in Minneapolis, President Donald J. Trump spent last night at the White House at a black-tie private screening of a documentary about First Lady Melania Trump. Amazon paid $40 million for the rights to the film just weeks after executive chair Jeff Bezos dined with Trump at Mar-a-Lago following the former president’s reelection and is spending another $35 million to promote the film.

26/01/26
Author: 
Robert Reich
Trump

Jan. 25, 2026

Enough.

I believe the shots that killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good are the shots heard ‘round the world that will topple the Trump regime.

From Minneapolis to Davos, people are joining together against Trump’s tyranny.

In Minnesota, they are joining across ethnicity, race, and class against Trump’s gestapo tactics, repression, and murders. Solidarity is spreading to other cities.

In Europe, they are joining across national boundaries against Trump’s threats to their sovereignty, the European Community, and NATO.

26/01/26
Author: 
Wolfgang Depner
B.C. Energy Minister Adrian Dix says an incoming transmission line will help support major LNG projects in northwest B.C. (Ben Nelms/CBC)

Jan. 20, 2026

B.C. Energy Minister Adrian Dix says an agreement between B.C. Hydro and the Nisga'a First Nation will help power a planned floating liquid natural gas terminal in northwestern B.C. across the finish line.

Dix said the agreement, marked by the signing of a memorandum of understanding in Prince George, B.C., on Tuesday, will see the North Coast Transmission Line supply up to 600 megawatts to what proponents say will be Canada's second-largest LNG facility.

Construction of the line is expected to start this summer.

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