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The following is an excerpt from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s 2017 book As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance. It follows from Simpson’s description of an interview ...
Expensive, speculative, risky carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology represents the fossil fuel industry’s last stand.
Humpback comeback: whales are reclaiming their territory in the Salish Sea, bringing new life to waters once left empty by commercial whaling.
Xa’nalas Dakota Smith has been working alongside a team of Ma’amtagila descendants to rebuild a homestead in their unceded territory.
The "green," progressive veneer of southern California's lithium rush disguises serious social impacts that come hand in hand with environmental risks.
Up is down, right is left, and Alberta claims federal government policies under ten years of Liberal rule have damaged their oil and gas industry.
Back in 2018, the Watershed Sentinel ran an article warning that “unless Canadians speak out,” a huge amount of taxpayer dollars would be spent on small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs), which author D ...
The courts have ordered Health Canada to reassess a popular pesticide following the release of new evidence on glyphosate's health harms.
Danger ahead: The BC government is cancelling environmental assessments for LNG, mines, hydro transmission lines, and wind farms ...
Last week, environmental organization Earthroots came out with evidence of mercury contamination upstream from the Grassy Narrows First Nation. Soil samples that showed hundreds of times the mercury ...
Thousands of hectares of Canadian forest are sprayed every year with glyphosate, a weed-killing agent, for the sole purpose of killing off grasses, shrubs, and deciduous trees. Yes, really. It sounds ...
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