Imagine your country has just been hammered by a sudden extreme climate event, say a violent storm or an unrelenting, record-shattering downpour. The systems you rely on for transportation, energy, food, and water lie in rubble. Homes, businesses, schools, and hospitals are flattened or drowned.

First Nations emergency responders are tracking multiple factors that threaten to contribute to another record fire season

At the root of the climate crisis lies an economy dependent on profits from unfettered growth, mostly through resource extraction, experts say. But, as world leaders wrap up at COP28 in Dubai, discussing how to fast-track the global push towards clean energy, few seem to be talking about the elephant in the room: endless GDP growth.

In an era of record-breaking temperatures, devastating fires, floods, storms, and deadly droughts – all causing millions of deaths – the climate crisis clearly demands the strongest possible, justice-based, and urgent response from nation-states.

More than 1000 leaders and community members from Northern Ontario Indigenous communities were in Toronto last week to confront Premier Doug Ford and express opposition to a massive mining development.

Amidst the desert expanses of rural northern Nevada lies a land of striking contrasts and breathtaking beauty.

Washed in tones of golden yellow and burnt ochre, it is rugged, serene and captivating to the senses. In this vast stretch of parched desert, with sagebrush and other hardy shrubs dotting the landscape, there’s a sense of timelessness.

Increasingly since the pandemic, in cities across the country, more and more people are choosing to live in a tent, often out of necessity, because they feel unsafe in overcrowded shelters, or they’re turned away because shelters are at capacity.

‘Let’s start by clarifying what their ad campaign really is: greenwashing’

Acoalition of Canada’s six largest oil sands companies is facing a new complaint with the Competition Bureau for an advertising campaign that Greenpeace Canada says is spreading dangerous climate disinformation.

I blew a tire on my Jeep driving the rough roads up to visit the Unis’tot’en Healing Centre in unceded Wet’suwet’en territory back in late March. With no cell service in the area, I was surrounded by forest and mountains a 45-minute drive away from any main roads.

Undeterred by dismissal, seven youth activists are now gearing up for an appeal.

Sophia Mathur was just 11-years-old when Ecojustice reached out to her and asked if she might want to be involved in fighting the Ontario government in court.

Will repudiation of the Doctrine of Discovery have any impact on Canadian law?

This week, the Vatican released a statement that repudiates the Doctrine of Discovery, the decree that has been used to subjugate Indigenous Peoples for half a millennium.

Oil and gas companies are lobbying the federal government for billions in tax dollars to push an expensive and unproven technology — carbon capture, utilization, and storage — as a magical solution to the climate crisis. But in reality, the real goal is to continue business as usual until every drop of oil is burned.

One and a half hour’s drive up a mountainous gravel road near Houston, B.C. is a secluded, Indigenous-run healing lodge. The route there is lined by thick woodlands encircled by towering snow capped peaks and is parallel to a sacred river of the Wet’suwet’en tribal peoples who have called this stunning landscape home for millennia.

While watching sockeye salmon leap into hand-held nets, Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief Na’Moks leaned in and said to me, above the sound of the roiling current, “the fish feed the people, the bears, the trees and the air. The salmon are life.”

After making her way down a fake set of stairs designed to look like a fire escape in a back alley, Deborah Brosnan, a marine scientist and climate-risk expert, took the stage at the Collision conference in Toronto.

“The assumption is the sea is too big to fail,” she said — it’s why, despite the massive plastic pollution and environmental degradation, green ocean tech isn't getting nearly enough of the investment that it needs.

As much as 75 per cent of the world’s mining companies are headquartered in Canada — companies that frequently come under fire for violating human rights, ignoring Indigenous sovereignty, and seriously damaging the environment.

These companies have extraction operations on every continent, including Asia, the Americas, and Africa, and many projects are operating against the expressed wishes of the local Indigenous communities.

Environmentalists call it a greenwashing strategy by Big Oil, but carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) technologies have been placed front and centre in the government’s most recent federal budget.

The 2022 budget contains the long-awaited CCUS tax credit.

“This budget continues Canada’s pattern of giving huge windfalls to industrial polluters with limited investment in creating the cleaner future we need,” said Tim Gray, Executive Director of Environmental Defence Canada.

Frustration is mounting among left-wing members of Canada’s New Democratic Party, who feel the party has lost its way.

In recent weeks members have publicly quit, others have circulated petitions and some have shared stories of what they perceive to be dirty tricks from a party leadership determined to ostracize them.

As the past month in Canada showed, the climate crisis doesn’t just mean rising heat. It also means devastating floods that can wipe out highways and homes, as B.C. and Newfoundland saw.

“Until a few weeks ago, the extreme weather term ‘atmospheric river’ was not in common usage,” noted Nahlah Ayed, a CBC News reporter and host of an event on climate justice held by SFU Public Square on November 26.

The B.C. government announced this week that they will temporarily defer logging of old-growth forests in a vast area, consult with First Nations and, for the first time, release scientific data on the status of the province’s old-growth forests.