Author and analyst Seth Klein joins Desmond Cole to break down how Carney and Smith have fulfilled Big Oil’s entire wish list
Mark Carney’s deal with Alberta’s Danielle Smith is the climate sell-out of the century.
Author and analyst Seth Klein joins Desmond Cole to break down everything it contains—from pipelines, to AI data centres, to dirty electricity, to a rollback of almost every Trudeau-era climate policy.
Workers in Canada’s oil and gas industry won’t be able to escape the sector’s coming collapse regardless of the fossil fuel boosterism from politicians in Ottawa and Alberta.
That’s according to new research from the Centre for Future Work, which found that concerns about fossil fuel employment “have been weaponized by industry” to prevent or delay policies to reduce oil and gas production and use.
The world’s axis of rotation has shifted. America is no longer able to provide leadership in global discourse and guidance. US President Donald Trump has effectively sidelined America. China’s hard-earned, multi-decade focus on economic success and global acquisition of resources and critical minerals has accelerated its geopolitical ascendance.
The government has finally laid its cards on the table. The threat against our nation is real. That is why the Department of National Defence (DND) announced its plans to establish a 300,000-person citizens’ army.
This would be one of the largest civilian reserve mobilization efforts in recent Canadian history.
This excerpt is adapted from Tara Lohan’s Undammed: Freeing Rivers and Bringing Communities to Life (2025, Island Press). It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (
Raw log exports, capital flight and shuttered mills signal the fall of BC’s forestry sector.
The provincial Conservatives wasted no time calling for Forests Minister Ravi Parmar’s head this week after Domtar announced it would soon shutter its Crofton pulp mill.
