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17/08/26
Author: 
Bob Berwyn
A man cools off during a heat wave in Rome on July 1, 2025. Credit: Antonio Masiello/Getty Images

Aug. 10, 2026

A new American Meteorological Society report paints a grim picture of the global climate.

As global warming continued to reshape Earth’s climate, the planet’s oceans reached record high temperatures for the third year in a row in 2025. Some northern forests and tundra released more carbon dioxide than they absorbed. And the Greenland Ice Sheet lost about 129 gigatons of ice, enough to form a cube of ice about three miles wide on each side.

17/07/26
Author: 
BC Climate Emergency Campaign
BCCEC

Jul. 15, 2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Prominent New Democrats and community leaders raise the alarm over Premier Eby + caucus support for LNG and call for renewed provincial climate leadership, amid worsening climate disasters
Signatories in open letter say British Columbia no longer has a climate plan

08/07/26
Author: 
Charlie Angus
Protestors marching on May 23 raised concerns about the impact of the AI data centres as Metro Vancouver faces tighter water restrictions. (Anaïs Elboujdaïni/Radio-Canada)

Jul. 8, 2026

Last month, Wired Magazine reported that Chinese researchers are growing increasingly concerned about the danger of a “Chernobyl” moment in the race to create superhuman intelligence.

The AI arms race, involving China, the United States, and a range of private-sector interests, is unfolding at a dizzying pace. It is a race to create the ultimate power machine, and there are no guardrails or protections for the public.

One Chinese researcher stated that it is like “driving faster and faster while the road gets narrower and the fog gets thicker.”

05/07/26
Author: 
Karen Yourish, Nick Corasaniti and Charlie Smart
NYT - Desktop

Jul. 2, 2026

The Many Ways Trump Is Trying to Tip the Scales for the Midterms

President Trump is trying to use the levers of the federal government, along with personal influence over state and local lawmakers, to reshape the rules governing the 2026 midterms and future elections in extraordinary ways.

Category: 
18/06/26
Author: 
Charles Rusnell
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith rejected an independent report on electoral boundaries, creating a new body weighted with UCP appointees to decide. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick, the Canadian Press.

Jun. 17, 2026

Smith’s Power Plays Depend on These Hand-Picked Appointees

Think redrawing ridings and pricing separation are jobs for impartial experts? Here are the UCP choices.

How will Alberta’s ridings be reshaped and who will draw the lines? The answers could affect the outcome of future elections for generations. But New Democrats claim Premier Danielle Smith has brazenly tilted the scales in her party’s favour.

17/06/26
Author: 
Emiko Newman
An oil rig in Bahrain. The war in nearby Iran is driving unprecedented profits for Canada’s fossil fuels industry and those revenues should be taxed to support public services, writes the author. Photo via Shutterstock.

While residents of Iran suffer the consequences of a senseless war, the impacts ripple across the globe in the form of price spikes for gas and other commodities. And the Canadian oil and gas industry has been laughing all the way to the bank.

15/06/26
Author: 
Charlie Angus
Trans Mountain Pipeline

Jun. 7, 2026

From the moment Donald Trump started threatening Canada’s economy and sovereignty, Premier Danielle Smith was an outlier.

She refused to be part of the Team Canada approach, preferring instead to head to Mar-a-Lago with Jordan Peterson and Kevin O’Leary.

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