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What if we future-proofed B.C. instead of building more pipelines?

Trans Mountain is under water. Its federal dollars and skilled workforce should be redeployed to build back better after the floods. “It’s going to take a bundle of money.” ...

A failure of leadership

November 17, 2021 | 

Faced with compounding disasters, provincial politicians are stuck in reaction mode. Who will safeguard our communities? As people lay trapped in their cars under tree trunks and mud, B.C. ...

Jason Kenney’s Halloween house of horrors

October 21, 2021 | 

Government twists public inquiry results to spook Albertans Be afraid. And get angry. That’s the message from the Alberta government to oil and gas workers, and their families, as ...

Jagmeet Singh needs youth. We need a climate emergency leader.

Guest blog by Vijay Tupper I’m a sixteen-year-old high school student in Burnaby, B.C. In 2019, I joined the youth climate strikes that brought a million Canadians out into ...

Liberals move to outflank the NDP on green issues

John Horgan, Rachel Notley make things awkward for federal New Democrats When Justin Trudeau was asked by a reporter why he dodged Indigenous youth who traveled from Fairy Creek ...

What if B.C. had its own Climate Defence Force?

July 29, 2021 | 

July 2021 is a good month for international cooperation in the face of the climate crisis  Last weekend a battalion of Mexican firefighters touched down into the inferno that ...

Dogwood’s response to the Alberta Inquiry

July 16, 2021 | 

We’re more determined than ever to stop fossil fuel expansion in B.C. Note: the rules of the Province of Alberta’s “Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns” prevent us from ...

No Idling

June 25, 2021 | 

On the road, record temperatures remind British Columbians how far we’ll have to travel to get past denial. Most every year, in the last few weeks of spring, I ...

At this late hour in the climate crisis, every vote matters

June 11, 2021 | 

A razor thin victory at City Hall reminds us how we could lose the climate fight. Late last week, Dogwood caught wind that a seemingly-routine series of staff recommendations ...