The General Assembly pledged to help countries threatened by sea-level rise, but many challenges remain.

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.

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Back for its third year, The Independent is proud to publish its list of the world’s leading environmentalists – marking the campaigners, change makers and innovators who are making a positive and sig...

The government of British Columbia is calling an election, just two years into a majority mandate and with an opposition mostly in disarray

New poll shows Conservatives ahead and doubts about the need for an election.

Vaughn Palmer: Departing head of Union of B.C. Municipalities decries provincial secrecy and attacks from two cabinet ministers

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Trump’s ban on CNN, MS NOW and Politico, ordering the administration to restore their White House access for two weeks. CBS, Fox News and NBC had susp...

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Juan Orlando Hernández’s escape from legal accountability at home and abroad point to the larger challenges of democracy building under the shadow of US power.

A Trump-appointed judge blocked sweeping new USPS mail-ballot rules, warning they could cause delays, errors and disenfranchisement weeks before the midterms.

At Mark Carney’s investment summit, world leaders need to agree that our legal, economic and political systems are destructive to our nature

Summary This document elaborates an emerging economic paradigm that is already latent in Zohran Mamdani’s plans and practices. The paradigm, which we call Democratic Public Finance (DPF), reframes …