Pulp mill closures and economic losses reveal deeper structural problems in BC’s forestry system and the looming crisis of forest falldown.

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology represents the fossil fuel industry’s last stand. Hawking expensive, speculative technology to suck CO2 out of the air and store it ...

Thousands of hectares of Canadian forest are sprayed every year with glyphosate, a weed-killing agent, for the sole purpose of killing off grasses, shrubs, and deciduous trees. Yes, really. It sounds ...

On a forestry road north of Kispiox, Gitxsan land protectors have set up a blockade to protest the Prince Rupert Gas Terminal pipeline (PRGT) on their laxyip (homelands). Their efforts reflect a ...

Thirty-four years ago, the “Friends of Strathcona” staged their 1988-1989 protest against the expansion of the Cream Silver Mine in Strathcona Park. The mine would have obliterated Cream Lake and most ...

After decades of protests, environmental violations, government fines, and civil claims, it’s the end of an era. Crofton’s embattled pulp mill is shutting down after 68 years, leaving 350 workers ...

Seed is the foundation of our food system. Who controls seed, how new plant varieties are developed, who benefits from seed, and how decisions are made about seed all have big consequences. Canada’s ...

Last week, environmental organization Earthroots came out with evidence of mercury contamination upstream from the Grassy Narrows First Nation. Soil samples that showed hundreds of times the mercury ...

With the help of the University of Victoria, Grandson of Ma’amtagila Hereditary Chief Basil Ambers, Xa’nalas Dakota Smith, has been working alongside a team of Ma’amtagila descendants to rebuild a ...

Danielle Smith has long claimed that federal government policies under ten years of Liberal rule have damaged Alberta’s oil and gas industry by reducing investment, limiting market access, and ...

Joyce Nelson has written in-depth on this subject as well as postal banking, “asset recycling,” the Canada Infrastructure Bank, Iceland’s resistance to austerity, and much more in Beyond Banksters: ...

This past summer, a conflict occurred between cottagers and Mississauga Nishnaabeg wild rice harvesters on Pigeon Lake in Ontario when folks from the “Save Pigeon Lake” group were issued permits from ...