Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.

Why was an 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite BC's big-tree protection law? CP Brenna Owen via CNO www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/n...

This is the kind of story I wish i was writing this week. lol

The Carney-Smith pipeline pact sidelines BC — spurring alarm over provincial autonomy, Indigenous rights, and political fallout for the Liberals on the West Coast. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/a...

This minister just got "climate change" added to her portfolio. Environment minister Julie Dabrusin got grilled by other parties about if she supported the new pipeline proposal. Dabrusin also wouldn't say if a new pipeline would increase carbon pollution. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/01/n...

One of Canada’s foremost public intellectuals has concluded that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/01/a...

No one should be under any illusions about who the base of the UCP are. Separatists and far-right radicals have been given care and feeding by UCP Premiers since 2019. One got thrown overboard because it wasn’t enough. Catering hasn’t mollified them either.

I don’t know why the only bedtimes that my brain accpets are: * sunset (currently 4:12pm) * 7 pm * 1 am * never but if I miss the first two, I’m stuck with the 3rd or 4th.

Hodgson gets a cool coastal welcome. BC premier says Alberta’s pipeline proposal is a political stunt risking real investment before Friday's federal meet up, while Coastal First Nations call out Resource Minister Tim Hodgson's disrespectful remarks. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/28/n...

Yesterday I was up on that pipeline route and a First Nation land guardian was explaining to me the riskiness of shipping oil on those waterways and I kept thinking: how f-ing broke is Canada that it’s thinking of doing this? This is ‘selling your kidney’ level of desperation.

The Carney-Smith pipeline pact gets backlash for endangering “real” nation-building projects, Indigenous consent, climate and the environment. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/n...

A single oil spill doesn’t just threaten First Nations communities, but could sink tourism, commercial and recreational fisheries, aquaculture and marine services — all of which depend on the healthy, pristine coast, said Coast Funds CEO Eddy Adra. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/n...

Great op-ed by @dbtindall.bsky.social that captures the on-the-gound bedlam at COP30 in Belém, Brazil.

THREAD: One reason I haven't complained about Democrats this year is the simple math that 218 House Votes & 67 Senate Votes are required for impeachment. There is no way Democrats, ALONE can save us. Less still if we actively erode them. What we actually need is Republicans to defect. 🧵

I know people are closely following what's going on the US and the horrors of ICE, but do you know how Canada is quickly and quietly is growing its deportation machinery? Canada plans to increase deportations by 25 percent over the next two years. 25 PERCENT!!! Here are 5 other things to know:

A loaded barge taking on water and the disastrous Nathan E. Stewart diesel spill underscore the dangers of oil tankers in B.C.’s coastal waters, Coast First Nations say. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/20/n...

Former UCP candidate Caylan Ford's scattergun defamation lawsuit against the media and others sends a free press chill through Alberta www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/19/o...

An expensive project to export Canada’s resources, getting subsidy after subsidy. A way to diversify Prairie exports away from a single buyer, but with major opposition from affected First Nations. Promises of prosperity. Icebergs. My column this week, about the historical echoes of Ksi Lisims.

Eby bites back at minimum federal funding for 'major projects' BC shouldn’t foot the bill alone for projects that significantly contribute to and diversify the national economy, BC Premier David Eby said. saidhttps://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/14/news/eby-major-projects-federal-funding

Health Canada convened an independent expert advisory group in 2020 to provide guidance on safer supply. Health Canada heavily redacted its final report, but unredacted version obtained by CBC shows the expert group said drug crisis is driven by prohibition and recommended expansion of safer supply

BC Hydro report cites lack of independent oversight contributed to Site C's soaring overruns — but Eby's Bill 31 to speed the power line may be a blueprint for same problems. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/17/a...

Carney's first budget squeaks through House of Commons by 2 votes. Hardly a ringing endorsement. This budget was passed because nobody, and I mean NOBODY, wants another election, not because its contents excited anyone except fossil fuel companies. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/17/n...

BC transmission line risks repeating Site C missteps: critics www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/17/a...

Prime Minister Mark Carney backs the North Coast Transmission Line as a nation building project — questions remain about who will buy the power and who will pay for it. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/14/n...

Canadians shouldn’t have to resort to guessing about the main element of Mark Carney’s entire policy agenda. It is fundamentally offensive, and antithetical to good governance and sound policymaking, that Carney is leaving everyone to guess why he’s doing what he’s doing.

“I don't see any prospect of a pipeline unless it is fully taxpayer funded, and the federal government forces it through provincial and indigenous objections," says BC Premier David Eby. Eby and coast First Nations push Ottawa to honour oil tanker ban. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/06/n...

🔥 Mayor Brandon Johnson once again calls for a General Strike. He says the power of the Labor Movement & The Civil Rights Movement combining was what Dr King imagined. Since the billionaires & elites have united, if we're going to beat back this tyranny, workers must be even more united than them.

Canada will remember.

It’s not just dazzling headlights - the growing size of vehicles, especially SUVs, is making our roads more dangerous for smaller-car users, pedestrians, cyclists and children #SUVAlliance www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

It’s pronounced cyclist.

Amen.

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

Danielle Smith announces Alberta will be the proponent in a new pipeline application. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/01/n...

After five decades of declining wildlife populations, now is not the time to walk back protections for biodiversity and habitats. Protecting nature and boosting the economy are not mutually exclusive, but rather, interdependent goals. 🔗: @nationalobserver.com ✍️: @rochellebaker1.bsky.social 🌎

It's the first landfill proposal in the province selected for fast-tracking under Premier Doug Ford's newly enacted Bill 5 — which makes the project immune to many of the checks and balances it would otherwise face. Great story here from @matinsarfraz.bsky.social

One way to read Lowan's victory is that progressives are hungry for bold change. We saw this in New York City, we've now seen this in the BC Greens, and as the federal NDP kicks off its leadership race this is clearly how the political winds are blowing. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/n...

Mr. Eby doesn't mention that the electrical build-out he's lauding especially in northern BC is primarily to fuel the expansion of the LNG industry ... one of the fossil fuels burning up the planet. This at NY climate week. Flabbergasted.

The Trudeau-era strategy of influencing policy by lobbying high-level officials isn't working for climate groups — who are now pivoting to an outsider game in an attempt to find leverage in the age of Carney.

Alberta’s new power market plan sidestepped fixes for the intertie with BC, which represents a lost opportunity for Ottawa's dreams of a national grid. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/17/a...

Call. Cancel. Spread the word. #Disney #Kimmel #Hulu #ABC

Just canceled Disney+ under reasons for cancelation? "You canceled Jimmy Kimmel, we canceled you." Seems only fair. This is the way!

I called five different numbers. Every single one led to the same man’s voicemail. My first investigative piece is out in Canada’s National Observer—uncovering a hidden fossil fuel ad network.

Carney was criticized for “deceiving voters” during the election. He cloaked himself as the face of the “elbows up” movement and an alternative to the Conservatives — only to poach Poilievre’s policy and talking points after gaining power, NDP caucus said. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/11/n...

The federal NDP plans to rebuild by reclaiming political ground on the left, interim party leader Don Davies said in an interview with Canada’s National Observer. Via @rochellebaker1.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/12/n...

Cutting creek walker contracts during salmon spawning season is ‘gross mismanagement’ by Fisheries Canada, critics say. The latest lapse is part of a DFO legacy of neglect in monitoring BC salmon returns on northern coast. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/05/n...

Critics contend that Premier Doug Ford’s decision makes no sense and his arguments aren’t backed by evidence while ignoring downsides such more congestion, higher emissions and the risk of losing skilled staff to more flexible employers. @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/27/a...