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Landowners in court over orphan well cleanup failure

Ecojustice is representing Albertan landowners who are taking the Alberta Energy Regulator to court for failing to properly fund orphan well cleanup

As Climate Lawsuits Advance, U.S. Oil Industry Enters ‘Panic Mode’

Oil companies face new legal challenges, such as a recent suit for wrongful death, and older cases that are creeping toward trial, Grist reports.

Ecojustice

Feds moves to strike climate accountability case

The federal government is trying to keep youth from having their day in court over Canada’s failure to have a credible plan to meet its 2030 climate target.

'90% Public Ownership' Announced For West Coast Pipeline

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and PM Mark Carney have announced a route and a tentative partnership for a new pipeline from Alberta to the B.C. coast, with taxpayers picking up the lion’s share of the cost.

Pathways is a costly climate fiction — and Canadians are paying for it

The 2025 Alberta–Carney agreement explicitly links pipeline construction to the Pathways project. Despite record profits — $37 billion for oilsands producers in 2023 — Canadians are being asked to finance infrastructure that increases emissions while private companies reap the benefits.

Dogwood

Who’s behind the backlash over Indigenous rights in B.C.?

B.C.’s 180-year old “land question” is fueling a very modern culture war. How did we get here?

The Breach

Inside the rising country-wide movement against AI data centres ⋆ The Breach

Canada is getting hit with an AI data centre boom. But resistance is emerging, getting coordinated, and already clocking wins

CTVNews

‘Seemed appropriate’: Vancouver Island artist uses horse manure to paint Trump portrait

When Vancouver Island artist Wendy Chartrand decided to paint a portrait of U.S. President Donald Trump, she used a new medium she thought “seemed appropriate” for the subject—horse manure.

‘Master Class in Greenwash’ as Ottawa, Alberta, Oil Sands Alliance Unveil CCS Deal

Multi-billion-dollar Pathways project will capture the equivalent of 6.5% of oil sands’ current production emissions in 2035, and won’t touch the 80% of emissions in each barrel that are exported and then burned—if the project is ever finalized.

Why is the Carney government cozying up to pesticide companies?

Just before Parliament adjourned for the summer, the Liberal government passed Bill C-30, an omnibus law that gives Prime Minister Mark Carney’s cabinet the power to authorize pesticides in the name of “economic” or “national food security”—including products Health Canada previously banned after scientific evidence showed they posed serious harms.

Ecojustice

Youth ready for next court battle in climate case

Ontario youth prepare for next court battle in landmark climate Charter case against Ford government

bbc.com

Back to books - Sweden's schools cutting back on digital learning

Swedish classrooms swap laptops for books, pens and paper, raising concerns from the tech sector.

The Breach

Inside the rising country-wide movement against AI data centres ⋆ The Breach

Canada is getting hit with an AI data centre boom. But resistance is emerging, getting coordinated, and already clocking wins

Parks Canada charges hikers after grizzly bear run-in with off-leash dog | CBC News

A pair of hikers with an off-leash dog were charged after coming close to a well-known grizzly bear on a popular hiking trail in Banff National Park.

Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value?

American-funded dark money groups are applauding Mark Carney’s hands-off response to Alberta’s move toward two-tier health care. With Ottawa now embracing provincial “flexibility,” the federal government is abandoning its historic role as defender of universal public health care, leaving many to question whether Medicare remains secure.

Canadian Civil Society Leaders Say NO to the Canada-Ecuador Free Trade Agreement | Mining Watch Canada

Saskatchewan Moving Towards Swifter, More Effective Penalties for Impaired Driving | News and Media | Government of Saskatchewan

Halifax Examiner

The Carney government has abandoned Canada's climate goals, and young people are mad about it - Halifax Examiner

I fully expect that we will see open revolt from young people.

The war on the poor is escalating

We are now living in a period when poverty, homelessness, and social abandonment have reached crisis levels and the need for a united working-class challenge to this state of affairs is more important than ever. As John Clarke writes, this should be regarded as a monstrous social injustice that poses a threat to all workers—and it should be challenged by the entire labour movement.

CCPA

The Gaza world order | CCPA

Israel’s ongoing genocide is the fascists’ blueprint for the world they seek to construct

'Colonial thinking': Inuit criticize backlash to Gov. Gen. Mary Simon’s brand of bilingualism | CBC News

Inuit are criticizing the prime minister's emphasis on the next governor general's bilingualism. They point out that the outgoing Governor General Mary Simon is also bilingual in English and Inuktitut.

Cabin Radio

Lynx River Revisited podcast to return for second season

A podcast that rewatches iconic CBC TV show North of 60 was renewed for a second season and will receive $20,000 from the Indigenous Screen Office and YouTube.

canadiangeographic.ca

Beyond the aurora: Yellowknife’s experiences worth showing up for

Spotting the northern lights may be hit-or-miss, but the city’s culture, characters and hands-on experiences offer far more reliable rewards

The Globe and Mail

Opinion: Big oil makes billions as Canadians face Iran-war inflation. We need a windfall tax

The charge could generate up to $46-billion over the next year, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says

Friends of Medicare

Alberta Takes Another Step Towards Two-Tier Health Care with Orders in Council

Alberta government takes another concerning step towards two-tier health care by quietly issuing Orders in Council to reclassify all preventive health testing services as non-insured extended health services, Via @friendsofmedicare

The headline that shouldn't have shocked me

It is remarkably rare that a news story about climate impacts actually mentions climate change. Rarer still are the stories that pinpoint fossil fuels as its primary cause. To do so in a headline is virtually unheard of. So, it was both coffee-splurting and strangely invigorating to run across a news story from a legacy news outlet that identifies the why behind the wildfires.

Critics Present Legal Opinion on Alberta

At a news conference in Ottawa, a group of public health-care advocates discuss a new legal opinion on regulations surrounding Alberta’s Bill 11. The provincial law allows for doctors in Alberta to perform some medical services in both the public and private health-care systems, which critics say amounts to a two-tier system. Speaking at the event are Anne Lagacé Dowson and Jason MacLean from the Canadian Health Coalition, which commissioned the legal opinion, as well as Emma Phillips (partne

“Got Bones?” Masked White Supremacists Descend on Tk’emlúps, Three Days Before Truth and Reconciliation Day

They hid their faces but wanted to be seen. Residential school denialism is out of control, and it’s time Canada called it what it is: hate.

CCPA

A branch plant for bombs | CCPA

Canada’s Defence Industrial Strategy aims for diversification, but has no roadmap.

Ricochet

Canada’s safety net is collapsing

A social safety net designed to prevent a crisis has not kept pace with our modern-day realities and the rising cost of living.