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06/04/26
Author: 
Wolfgang Depner and Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press
B.C. Premier David Eby speaks during a news conference in North Vancouver, on Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

Apr. 2, 2026

B.C. premier says legislation to suspend parts of DRIPA will be a confidence vote

A strategy shift away from immediately redrawing the legislation failed to quell First Nations' concerns.

British Columbia Premier David Eby says he will stake his government on suspending sections of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act for up to three years, calling it the "least invasive" way of mitigating its potentially sweeping and unintended impact on the province's laws.

06/04/26
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Federal Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon addresses members of the media in the House of Commons foyer. File photo by: Natasha Bulowski / Canada's National Observer

Apr. 6, 2026

AI Minister Evan Solomon has met with energy and mining companies about the environmental impacts of AI infrastructure, but no environmental organizations, according to documents tabled in the House of Commons.

06/04/26
Author: 
Matteo Wong, Charlie Warzel - The Atlantic
An Amazon Web Services data center in Manassas, Virginia | Nathan Howard / Bloomberg / Getty

Apr. 5, 2026

The AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis.

The global economy has become dependent on the AI industry. Trillions of dollars are being invested into the technology and the infrastructure it relies on; in the final months of 2025, functionally all economic growth in the United States came from AI investments. This would be risky even in ideal conditions. And we are very far from ideal conditions.

 

03/04/26
Author: 
Chris Hatch
Over the past two decades, the Earth has been absorbing excess energy equivalent to roughly 18 times all of humanity's annual energy use, every single year, according to the World Meteorological Organization. More than 91 per cent of that energy is soaked up by the oceans. Photo by: Joan Li / Unsplash

Mar. 20, 2026

The world’s top weather agency just added a new number to the climate story — and it may be the most fundamental one of all.

03/04/26
Author: 
Mitch Anderson
Prime Minister Mark Carney and Equinor CEO Anders Opedal meeting to discuss the proposed Bay Du Nord project. Credit: Mark Carney/Facebook

Apr. 1, 2026

Mark Carney Pledges $1B in Taxpayer Money for a ‘Carbon Bomb’ Project

It’s a massive subsidy to Equinor, the Norwegian oil company behind the Bay du Nord offshore oil project.

“Do governments have to do more? Absolutely,without question. There is a gap between ambition and policies that’s large. It needs to close.” – Mark Carney, United Nations Climate Action & Financial Special Envoy. 

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