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I am writing this as someone who has immersed himself in your work not as academic theory, but as a manual for survival and a lexicon for resistance. For decades, you have given us the language to name our oppressors and their tactics, and I'll be forever grateful.

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Canada

Why I’m running to lead the NDP - Bianca Mugyenyi

06/01/26

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Bianca Mugyenyi

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Yves Engler for NDP Leader

Bianca Mugyenyi poster for NDP Leadership Race

Jan. 5, 2026

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Emily Lowan on Next Steps for the BC Greens

05/01/26

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Andrew MacLeod

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The Tyee

BC Green Leader Emily Lowan says the party needs to work ‘on building power with working people, renters and young people across BC and focusing in on this message of wealth, inequality and driving forward long-term solutions.’ Photo via BC Greens.

Jan. 5, 2026

The party’s new leader talks taxes, rallying support and the NDP’s drift to the right.

Headed into the holiday break, BC Green Leader Emily Lowan was hoping for gains as her party renegotiates its agreement with the governing NDP to work together on shared priorities.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Where global emissions stand, a decade after the Paris agreement

05/01/26

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Fiona Harvey

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National Observer

Wind turbines in China, where clean energy is responsible for 10 per cent of the country’s GDP and emissions are now flattening. Tangshanpeng Wind Farm, China. Photo by Land Rover Our Planet/Flickr(CC BY-ND 2.0)

Jan. 5, 2026

This story was originally published by The Guardian and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

BC made small gains on emissions — but the province is scrapping policies

05/01/26

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Rochelle Baker

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National Observer

BC latest climate accountability report showed modest reductions of carbon pollution in 2023, the latest year data is available, but doesn't clarify how it will reduce the massive emissions expected as more LNG projects come on line. File photo submitted

British Columbia’s modest climate gains are at risk after a wave of policy clawbacks this past year.

According to the province’s recent accountability report — which reflects BC’s climate data on a two-year lag — carbon pollution declined by four per cent in 2023, meaning emissions are now 9 per cent below the 2007 baseline.

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How the renewed push for critical minerals puts Canadian waters at risk

05/01/26

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Danielle Beurteaux

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National Observer

Remediation workers walk the shoreline of Hazeltine Creek near the town of Likely, BC in 2020. The creek was one of several bodies of water contaminated with tailings from the Mount Polley gold and copper mine when its tailings dam breached in 2014. File photo courtesy Mount Polley/Flickr

Jan. 5, 2026

The Bloom Lake iron mine is expanding. The Quebec mine, which started in 2018, has plans to more than double annual production next year. The estimated 572 million cubic metres (more than nine million shipping containers) of tailings waste created by this mine will end up in eight lakes and 37 rivers, where it will remain forever.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy