May 11, 2021
How can we reform Canada's petro-friendly media?
Robert Hackett
Hanna Araza
Canada's news media, like its economy, are historically and culturally linked to extractivism.
Robert Hackett
Robert Hackett is Professor Emeritus of Communication at Simon Fraser University. He has published eight (mostly collaborative) academic books on media and politics, most recently Journalism and Climate Crisis (2017). A co-founder of NewsWatch Canada (1993), Media Democracy Days (2001), and Openmedia.ca (2007), Bob has been one of the thousands of people campaigning to defend the community, the coast and the planet from the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure, notably the Trans Mountain pipeline. He received SFU's Warren Gill award for community impact in 2018.
May 10, 2021
Postmedia's cozy relationship with the fossil-fuel industry
Robert Hackett
Hanna Araza
If Canadians want a conversation about energy and climate policy undistorted by big oil's outsized influence, newspapers still matter.
Apr 21, 2021
As we face a climate emergency, is it time to rethink the NDP?
Robert Hackett
Is the NDP a party, or a movement? And does it matter? At a time of climate emergency, it does.
Dec 11, 2020
Federal NDP could help axe Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project
Svend Robinson
Robert Hackett
Tom Sandborn
The NDP should present a motion at an upcoming opposition day that calls on the government to cease TMX construction and end other corporate welfare to fossil fuel industries.
Oct 22, 2020
Why some environmentalists are turning off British Columbia's NDP government
Robert Hackett
Despite the promises made while in opposition, and some positive steps, the Horgan government's environmental policy seems to be: pick low-hanging fruit, but don't offend corporate carbon capital.
Sep 28, 2020
Environmental leaders on post-COVID Canada: Greener future, or new climate denialism?
Robert Hackett
Interviews with five of Canada's environmentalist voices -- David Suzuki, Catherine McKenna, Graham Saul, Bruce Lourie and Tzeporah Berman -- on strategies and options for a green recovery.
Sep 21, 2020
Should Canada treat climate crisis like a war?
Robert Hackett
Seth Klein's "A Good War" is the book every climate-concerned Canadian has been waiting for.
Jun 30, 2020
Noam Chomsky discusses prospects for post-COVID-19 society
Robert Hackett
Powerful elites are running scared, says Chomsky. "The peasants are coming with the pitchforks."
May 19, 2020
Pipeline projects, the pandemic and the question journalists fail to ask
Robert Hackett
While thousands of B.C. businesses have closed and millions of British Columbians are urged to stay at home, fossil fuel-related expansion projects continue as if they are "essential services."
Apr 9, 2020
Why has B.C. Premier John Horgan bought the LNG pipe dream?
Robert Hackett
Today's B.C. NDP is a locked-down creature. There's not been much chance for internal debate on LNG policy, even within the caucus.
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