The summer of 2021 in British Columbia was one of the hottest ever on record, caused by a weather event known as a heat dome. This once-in-1,000-years weather event (made 150 times more likely by climate change), saw temperatures of up to 49.6 C in the province. This unbearable heat led to the deaths of […]

The devastating effects of global warming are being felt by billions of people all around the world. Meanwhile, capitalist fat cats are openly downplaying the risk of entire cities being buried beneath the rising oceans as a trifling inconvenience. Like Emperor Nero before them, the rulers of this destructive system are fiddling – this time […]

Major roadways, including access to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal on Vancouver Island and the George Massey Tunnel, were blocked off June 13 during the Monday morning commute by Save Old Growth (SOG) protests. These protests are not the first of their kind, with the ongoing logging of old-growth trees facing a series of resistance […]

On May 10, the Trudeau government announced a $10 billion loan guarantee for the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX), just three months after promising that “no more additional public money” will be spent on the project. If completed, the expansion will increase the pipeline system’s capacity from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels per day. The announcement garnered […]

On the afternoon of Friday, Feb. 18, while all eyes were on the clearing of the “Freedom Convoy” in Ottawa, the federal government quietly announced that the cost of their Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project had ballooned to $21.4 billion. This is a 300 per cent increase from the original cost the Liberals paid to […]

A recent environmental audit revealed that a 2020 program intended to help corporations reduce emissions has been a complete failure. The program subsidized fossil fuel companies to the tune of $675 million dollars. In return, they were expected to not lay off any employees, and have a plan for reducing emissions. Needless to say, this […]

Torrential rains have caused devastation across British Columbia. Hundreds of people have been trapped by landslides, thousands have been forced to evacuate, and hundreds of thousands have gone without electricity. The city of Vancouver, the second largest port in North America, has been cut off from the rest of Canada. But this biblical-scale flooding is […]

The destruction of climate change is no longer a distant threat but a present reality. In the past year, huge sections of British Columbia were destroyed by fire, and are now being engulfed by floods. Taiwan, California and Brazil have had record droughts. The Amazon rainforest now emits more carbon dioxide than it absorbs. Famine […]

On Sunday 31 October, negotiations officially opened for COP26, the latest UN Climate Change Conference. Hosted in Glasgow, Boris Johnson welcomed heads of state from around the world to commence two weeks of negotiations, panel-discussions, and press-conferences. Business leaders are also there to present their ideas on tackling climate change. Under pressure from events, the […]

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has denied an application by Teal Cedar Products Ltd. to extend the injunction against blockades by protestors of old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed on Vancouver Island. Teal Cedar was requesting a 12-month extension, but the court ruling means the injunction has now expired. This is a huge […]