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31/01/26
Author: 
Dogwood BC
Mark vs Marc [VIDEO]

Jan. 28, 2026

Trump's ghoulish Board of Peace includes billionaire Ksi Lisims LNG investor Marc Rowan. comment "Carney" to send a letter to your MP, demanding they block Canadian taxpayer subsidies to Rowan and his gang of Wall Street MAGA creeps.

Marc Rowan's firm Apollo Global Management (which he co-founded with Jeffrey Epstein's sugar daddy, Leon Black) is one of several U.S. private equity firms buying up key nodes of the Canadian economy and deepening American control of our resources.

31/01/26
Author: 
David Suzuki with contributions from Senior Editor and Writer Ian Hanington
Most people alive today will suffer the fury of a hothouse planet. We’ve created an emergency that threatens all of humankind. (Photo: Lal Torman via Pexels)

Jan. 29, 2026

German scientists are warning that global warming is accelerating, that the planet could heat by as much as 3 C over pre-industrial levels by 2050 — just 24 years from now — and that we could exceed 5 C of warming by the century’s end.

This should be top headline news. It should alarm us all. It should spur politicians to urgent action.

31/01/26
Author: 
Chauncey K. Robinson
People's World composite - Doomsday

Jan. 30, 2026

WASHINGTON—The popular 1984 song “2 Minutes to Midnight” by Iron Maiden—which highlighted humanity’s march toward nuclear war—needs an update to 85 seconds. Because that’s how close the world now stands to human-made global catastrophe, according to the experts behind the Doomsday Clock. The update might not be the catchiest tune, but the alarm has to be raised somehow, as scientists say the situation facing the world is more dangerous than ever. 

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.

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