Geography Archives: Canada

The Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion in British Columbia is running into another round of problems and generating even more opposition. ‘The controversial government-owned fossil fuel company is seeking regulatory approval to change its pipeline construction methods and route, after running into problems drilling a tunnel.’

Schalk: We are cynically rewriting history to serve contemporary political interests

To maintain public support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)’s proxy war with Russia, it’s important to erase its history of violence. The Canadian media’s refusal to mention NATO’s role in Libya’s instability partly reflects the requirements of Ukraine propaganda. 

It is long past time we end our mad rush to burn the planet to the ground.

Nicolas Graham’s book on forces of production and fossil-fuel capitalism gives an important analysis of why fundamental change is needed to solve the climate crisis, finds John Clarke

Since its founding, Canada’s ‘left-wing’ party has broadly supported the U.S. empire.

Canada’s unprecedented wildfires drive home the harsh realities of climate change, in all their enormity. We are fighting an incorrigibly destructive social and economic system, but we are also, at the same time, engaged in a struggle for survival.

The Aug. 8 wildfires that devastated parts of Maui are the deadliest in the U.S. since the 1918 Cloquet fire in northern Minnesota. Some two weeks after the fires, the official death toll stands at 115, and authorities in Hawaii have released the names of 388 people still unaccounted for. Tens of thousands have evacuated. Over 3,000 acres burned in Lahaina and neighboring communities.

Clarke: The social and economic consequences of climate change will play out along deeply entrenched fault lines of inequality

Ottawa has long undermined efforts by impoverished countries to draw greater benefits from their natural resources.

This isn’t what Western countries wanted to sow in West Africa, writes Owen Schalk.

Military coups are generally bad. Foreign invasions even more so. What then to think of the situation in Niger? While the political situation in the west African country is fluid, some facts are incontrovertible. An (at least nominally) elected president was ousted by the presidential guard after demoting its leader. The pro U.S./French President Mohamed […]

A court has ruled on the enforceability of contracts between sex workers and their clients in a precedent-setting case.

June featured unprecedented Canadian heat and wildfires, record-low Antarctic sea ice, and a strengthening El Niño.

Tiny Crawford Lake, near Toronto, holds a detailed record of radical global change.

The beginning of July saw the hottest days on record globally.

The promises of environmental stewardship from Canada’s political establishment clash with its support for fossil fuel interests.

Canada’s recent seizure of a Russian an-124 cargo plane, which had been delivering COVID supplies when it was grounded in February 2022 at Pearson Airport (it was forced to pay a fee for every minute, despite being trapped there), is another sanction among many others.

As smoke and smog choke the Northeast, Alberta’s Indigenous Nations face down apocalyptic wildfires and the provincial government’s “let-it-burn” climate policy.

While a geopolitical tussle between Washington and Beijing over Zambia’s debt default has received significant international attention, Canada’s contribution has been largely ignored.