Canada's Climate Daily

Alberta's $30-million bonfire

In place of the elite, nimble fact-checking bureau Premier Jason Kenney had promised for Alberta’s oil and gas sector, the war room appears instead to be building the media equivalent of a roaring $30-million bonfire of government money in front of the legislature.

Ten predictions for the biggest environmental stories in 2020

First Nation “exploring options” after court sides with natural gas company

A hereditary chief with the Wet'suwet'en First Nation says the community is expecting further police action after the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled in favour of a natural gas company that wants to build a pipeline through its territory.

Mounties defend social-media profiling of protesters

The RCMP is defending its practice of profiling people by scouring their social-media postings, saying the police force lawfully obtains information with the aim of protecting Canadians.

Dikes, ditches and dams: Manitoba's fight against flooding is complex

It has become an annual ritual in Manitoba — mid-winter thoughts turn to the spring melt and whether land and communities will be threatened by rising water that comes from rivers as far away as the Rocky Mountains and South Dakota.

The hidden key to the SNC-Lavalin scandal

Perhaps the most depressing spectacle of the entire Trudeau SNC-Lavalin implosion is that neither the prime minister nor the people around him seem to have any idea of how badly their tunnel vision distorted their judgment in the conduct of this file.

If Scheer wins, Albertans can kiss their economic future goodbye

Tesla Cybertruck carbon crushes Ford F-150

Ford's F-150 is over 100 times more polluting than Tesla’s new Cybertruck.

Jason Kenney foreign-funding conspiracy theory is false and we can prove it  

Part 1 of a four-part series, in which Canada’s National Observer presents a data-based dismantling of the false claim that Alberta’s oil and gas sector has been targeted by a cabal of American foundations.

Noam Chomsky: 'In a couple of generations, organized human society may not survive.' 

In recent years, Chomsky has turned his mind to the existential threat of global warming, a “threat to the perpetuation of organized human life,” on par with nuclear war. Now, in an exclusive interview with National Observer on Jan. 22, Chomsky directly addresses the specific relationship between media and the climate crisis.