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At Canada’s National Observer, we examine everything from policy to political theatre through the lens of climate change: privileging science over partisan politics and false balance.

The landback movement isn’t just about getting land back. It’s more than that. It’s a reclamation of culture too. 

This episode looks at how women are reclaiming their role as mothers, teachers, leaders, and sacred beings, despite everything colonialism has thrown at them.

This episode is not about the land defenses – but about the emergence of a public relations war to control the story the media tells.

In the first half of this episode, we’ll introduce you to three people who survived land conflicts. In the second half, they share their experiences with each other as they meet for the first time. 

British Columbia Premier David Eby says he had a meeting with the regional director of Canada's spy agency over allegations of foreign interference in the province's elections.

United Conservative Leader Danielle Smith apologized on Monday, May 8, 2023, after a 2021 video surfaced of her saying she wouldn’t wear a Remembrance Day poppy while comparing those who got the COVID-19 vaccine to followers of Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany.

Rain and cooler temperatures in northeastern British Columbia will help suppression efforts for two out-of-control wildfires, but high temperatures forecast for later this week may pose a new threat, says a BC Wildfire Service spokesman.

The Alberta government promised financial aid on Monday, May 8, 2023, to people forced from their homes by wildfires that continue to threaten many areas of the province.

China has declared a Canadian diplomat as "persona non grata" in retaliation for Ottawa's expulsion of a Chinese consular official, who Canada's spy agency alleged was involved in a plot to intimidate Conservative MP Michael Chong and his relatives in Hong Kong.

Canada is throwing its hat in the ring for a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, pledging to advance issues from online speech to access to abortion.

Increasingly severe heat waves will imperil the country's development goals and slow economic growth, new research shows.

Restaurants and cafés in the Zero Waste Zone are encouraged to sign up voluntarily through the Muuse app to offer customers reusable cups, containers and boxes.

In March, Premier Blaine Higgs sent First Nations in New Brunswick letters encouraging their support for development of a shale gas reserve near Sussex, saying they could see significant profits come their way if the plan moves forward.

Episode 13 of Maxed Out takes us from The Simpsons to modern-day Germany. It also offers an analysis of where nuclear energy stands compared to renewables and what Big Oil has to do with all of this.