#1028 The Canadian Plan to Dig a Goldmine in the Amazon
A small Canadian firm wants to build the largest goldmine in Brazil. But there’s no shortage of questions, allegations, investigations and legal battles swirling around the proposed project. Are local subsistence miners making false claims to drive Canadian competition off their land? Are Canadian mining executives violating human rights for an estimated $8 billion payout? Why is the UN investigating? What should the role of the Canadian government be in all this?
September 23, 2024
Sympathy for the tree thieves
When an offence against the environment is also a form of working-class rebellion
October 3, 2022
By CANADALAND
How climate change is screwing up water in the Prairies
"Whiplash" between extreme wet and dry is becoming the new normal
May 2, 2022
By CANADALAND
The Plan to Bury All of Canada’s Nuclear Waste in One Northwest Ontario Town
This kind of dump for high-level nuclear waste has not yet been built anywhere in the world
January 24, 2022
By CANADALAND
Why CANADALAND has had almost no climate coverage
And our new producer's effort to change that
November 15, 2021
By CANADALAND
A “Monumental Achievement” For Press Freedom
Court affirms media's right to report at Fairy Creek
July 22, 2021
By Danielle Paradis
What It’s Like When Police Try To Keep You From Reporting
At Fairy Creek, RCMP efforts to restrict media can devolve into theatre of the absurd
May 31, 2021
By Jonathan Goldsbie
Wag the Doug
#20 How Green Was My Dougie
With large swaths of the continent on fire, we look at how Doug Ford’s government recently took a torch to environmental regulations under the guise of a “Covid-19 Economic Recovery Act.”
September 23, 2020
CANADALAND
#326 While We Weren’t Looking
In the face of a global pandemic, it’s hard to focus on anything else.
May 17, 2020
Before Trudeau, Gerald Butts Abandoned Tar Sands Action As Head Of WWF
The episode was an uncanny harbinger of how the Liberals would act in power
