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A Danish Journalist Arrived to Cover the TMX Pipeline. The Guard at YVR Decided to Deport Him
A Danish Journalist Arrived to Cover the TMX Pipeline. The Guard at YVR Decided to Deport Him Kristian Lindhardt says Canada’s laws stifle press freedom afforded ‘during every crisis.’ Danish documentary-maker Kristian Lindhardt works with his country’s version of the CBC and has visited BC many times working on his documentary about the the Tsleil […]
End the Navy War Games in the Pacific Ocean
End the Navy War Games in the Pacific Ocean They dirty our waters, threaten health and have harmed women and girls. Cancel RIMPAC. The HMCS Winnipeg is one of two Canadian warships that recently departed BC to participate in the 2020 RIMPAC war games. Photo via Wikimedia Commons. Two Canadian warships, the HMCS Regina and the HMCS Winnipeg, recently left to […]
Thousands of Quakes, Tied to Fracking, Keep Shaking the Site C Dam Region
Thousands of Quakes, Tied to Fracking, Keep Shaking the Site C Dam Region Several recent reports on the tremors add to concerns about the mega-project’s stability. An artist’s rendering of the Site C Dam upon completion, a vision of the future rattled by thousands of tremors in the region triggered by fracking. Image via BC Hydro. […]
Alberta’s Environment Minister Cheered on Coal Mining in New Areas before Restrictions Were Dropped
Alberta’s Environment Minister Cheered on Coal Mining in New Areas before Restrictions Were Dropped Months before ending the Coal Policy, the Kenney government issued letters of support for open-pit projects. Coal mining along Alberta’s Rockies. Months before a large zone along the eastern slopes was opened to coal strip mining, two Alberta ministers endorsed an […]
Job Loss Disaster Slams Low-Wage, Young Workers
Job Loss Disaster Slams Low-Wage, Young Workers April numbers show three million lost jobs, while another 2.5 million people had their hours cut in half. We thought the March jobless numbers were bad, but it is almost a good news story compared to what we saw Friday in the April figures. The unprecedented closure of major sections […]
Global Boom, Pandemic, Crash: Is History Just Repeating Itself?
Global Boom, Pandemic, Crash: Is History Just Repeating Itself? If Peter Turchin is right, we face the end of a 300-year cycle, as did previous far-flung empires. The coronavirus pandemic is, among other things, a tribute to human ingenuity and our relentless pursuit of globalization, an impulse thousands of years old. Previous civilizations, from the […]
Alberta’s Meat Plant Workers Share Their Fears and Anger
Alberta’s Meat Plant Workers Share Their Fears and Anger As Cargill prepares to reopen, voices from the frontlines of Canada’s largest COVID-19 outbreak. They fear the virus. They are concerned about the futures. They worry for their communities. And they say neither the government nor two foreign-owned companies, which account for 70 per cent of […]
Traditional News Media Were Already Ill. COVID-19 Is Killing Some
Traditional News Media Were Already Ill. COVID-19 Is Killing Some Report finds 48 community newspapers have closed and 100 have made cuts as pandemic hits ad revenue. Local reporting is being kneecapped by pandemic-driven cuts to media outlets across B.C. at a time when community-specific, trustworthy reporting is vital to public health. A project to map the impacts of […]
Ignoring US Alarms, Alberta Meat Packers Spawned Canada’s Biggest Outbreak
Ignoring US Alarms, Alberta Meat Packers Spawned Canada’s Biggest Outbreak As the virus gripped US plants, the union pleaded for a shutdown. They were rebuffed. Canada’s largest outbreak of COVID-19 swept through two meat-packing plants in southern Alberta two weeks after the provincial government ignored union requests to temporarily close both of the plants. And […]
For Oil and Its Dependents, It’s Code Blue
For Oil and Its Dependents, It’s Code Blue The great price collapse of 2020 will topple companies and transform states. If oil has been laid low by the coronavirus, then the nations whose economies most depend on it might soon be on ventilators. By any prognosis the great oil price collapse of 2020 has pushed […]
FOI Documents Confirm RCMP Falsely Denied Using Facial Recognition Software
FOI Documents Confirm RCMP Falsely Denied Using Facial Recognition Software Its contract with Clearview AI started in October, but the force was still denying using the controversial technology three months later. The RCMP denied using facial recognition software on Canadians three months after it had entered into a contract with controversial U.S. company Clearview AI, […]
Despite Denials, RCMP Used Facial Recognition Program for 18 Years
Despite Denials, RCMP Used Facial Recognition Program for 18 Years NDP critic calls on government to explain why RCMP falsely denied using Clearview AI technology. Despite denials, the RCMP has been routinely using facial recognition technology since 2002, The Tyee has learned. And the software continues to be used in British Columbia, the RCMP confirmed […]
Diana Beresford-Kroeger on the Flawed Thinking that Got Us to Climate Crisis
Diana Beresford-Kroeger on the Flawed Thinking that Got Us to Climate Crisis Our conversation with the renowned botanist turns to fire, money and manual work. In early November, a California radio station in Marin County invited the world-renowned botanist to participate in a podcast about her new book To Speak for the Trees. The book, already in its […]
Amidst National Crisis, Province Gives Unist’ot’en an Ultimatum
Amidst National Crisis, Province Gives Unist’ot’en an Ultimatum Meet with pipeline company within 30 days or decision will be made without you, Environmental Assessment Office says. The office found Coastal GasLink had not provided the information needed to allow the office to assess the project’s impact. But it said that was because the company had […]
New Study Finds Far Greater Methane Threat from Fossil Fuel Industry
New Study Finds Far Greater Methane Threat from Fossil Fuel Industry The gas plays a powerful role in driving up global temperatures. A new study published in Nature may have ended a long scientific debate about the key source of rising methane levels in the atmosphere. It found that methane emissions from human activities — mainly fossil fuels […]
