250+ organizations across Canada are standing with Portage students and defending migrants’ right to speak out, organize and protest. Migrants are part of our movements. We will not allow immigration…

with Jessica Cheung of the Council of Canadians

It was long overdue, and began with a promise: It might start small, covering just a few common drugs, and expand until Canadians without benefits were no longer struggling to afford medication…

The costs and consequences of this radical shift to a military-first economic strategy were the focus of a recent Ottawa-area bus tour that the Council of Canadians organized with Peace Brigades In…

A prime minister with a penchant for centralizing power does not want to be challenged, Althia Raj writes.

Join our “Fund Healthcare, Not Warfare” Ottawa Bus Tour to call for public money to support healthcare, not conflict. Together, we’ll travel to Ottawa and learn more about the fight for public…

The Council of Canadians says it won't allow the Liberal government’s promise to build a national pharmacare program die a slow, quiet death.

American-style for-profit health care is coming to Canada in a real way through Alberta’s Bill 11. I talk with Nikolas Barry-Shaw about what is happening, what it means for the rest of Canada…

May 22, 2026 — Montréal

Canadian politicians are pushing for new pipelines, but we need a People's Power Grid that connects communities from coast to coast for affordable, reliable, and renewable electricity.

The current windfall could be Canadian oil's final boom—so the proceeds must be reinvested into economic diversification and industrial planning

As the public becomes aware of the downside of AI data centres in their community, the need to tightly regulate the industry is becoming clear.

As a wave of new data centres threatens to reshape the Canadian landscape, join us for a timely conversation with Anne Pasek. The Trent University professor’s work challenges common assumptions abo…

Alberta’s promised two-tier transition comes with unacknowledged threats from trade and investment agreements.

Canada’s National Observer analyzed the locations of 38 data centre campuses proposed in the province, and found that three quarters of them are in regions where water use is already in shorter supply...

CALGARY — Bell Canada and the Saskatchewan government have announced that a new 300-megawatt (MW) AI data centre will be built on the outskirts of Regina. Located in Sherwood, Saskatchewan, the projec...

Canada’s National Observer found and drew from multiple sources to put together a map of planned data centres in Ontario, and found at least 15 projects with a combined capacity of 2,202 MW currently ...

Learn about the dangers of Bill 11 with Andrew Longhurst and Chris Gallaway

Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

OpenAI's admission that it banned the ChatGPT account of mass shooting suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar months before the 18-year-old allegedly killed eight people and herself is drawing scrutiny to her p...

Presented by Council of Canadians for Red Deer and Area

Various cities across Canada—We are horrified by the violent and deadly actions of the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and previous threats from President Trump to dispatch the…

A civil society initiative to advance AI law, policy, and regulation centred around human rights and the public interest

Prime Minister Carney promised to protect pharmacare and expand it to cover everyone in Canada. But under pressure from Canada’s CEOs, his government is cutting healthcare while spending billions o…

To lead a successful effort to confront Trump, leaders must uphold international law consistently and invest in diplomacy U.S. President Donald Trump’s violent intervention in Venezuela repre…

Chances are you spent some of your holiday gatherings talking about the price of food. Costs to consumers have increased by almost 30 per cent since 2020, while mega-grocers doubled their profit margi...

Understanding how the United States uses its tech companies to serve empire