Ecology/Environment

An open letter to Naomi Klein: You are protecting the system you taught us to dismantle

06/01/26

Author:

Nathan Colquhoun

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The Journal - Serving Sarnia-Lambton

$Naomi Klein \\ Yves Engler$

Jan. 5, 2026

Naomi Klein’s silence on the disqualification of Yves Engler represents a betrayal of her intellectual legacy that protects a political dynasty at the expense of the radical left.

To Naomi Klein,

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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Emily Lowan on Next Steps for the BC Greens

05/01/26

Author:

Andrew MacLeod

Link:

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

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

05/01/26

Author:

Rochelle Baker

Link:

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

Author:

Danielle Beurteaux

Link:

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

CleanBC needs a renewal, not a retreat

03/01/26

Author:

Eric Doherty, Dr. Melissa Lem, Emiko Newman, Tracey Saxby

Link:

Vancouver Sun

A flare plume at the LNG Canada plant in Kimiat. Photo: Government of B.C. Photo by Government of B.C. /Government of B.C.

Jan 2, 2026

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Message from the government of Canada about the Ksi Lisims project

31/12/25

Author:

thejuicemedia

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instagram

Ksi Lisims LNG terminal and PRGT Pipeline—minus the bullshit.

Watch out Canada - Prime Minister Banker Daddy Mark Carney just added this project to your fast-track list. Here’s our Honest Government Ad about Ksi Lisims LNG terminal and PRGT Pipeline—minus the bullshit.

Watch here: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRA1H3ZkxWR/

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The biggest mosquito-borne disease in the world has a cure. There’s just one problem

31/12/25

Author:

Pratik Pawar

Link:

National Observer

In a children’s ward for dengue in Bangladesh’s capital, patients are squeezed two to a bed as cases rise well after the usual season for the potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus. Photo by: Getty Images/Vox

Dec. 29, 2025

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

There’s a reason dengue infections are also called “breakbone fever.”

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Mark Carney’s pact with Danielle Smith is climate carnage

17/12/25

Author:

The Breach

Link:

The Breach

Smith and Carney - Mark Carney’s pact with Danielle Smith is climate carnage

Website editor: in depth and insightful interview

Dec. 4, 2025

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.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

American decline and Canadian complacency

14/12/25

Author:

Andrew S. Wright Anil (Andy) Hira Stefan Pauer Opinion

Link:

National Observer

LNG pipeline construction in North Bear Lake, photo by Andy Wright

Dec. 11, 2025

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.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy