I keep returning to a single image from a day I will never quite shake. The University of Victoria campus was alive with anger and care, and I was watching from inside the First Peoples House as the crowd gathered at Petch Fountain. They were there to do something simple and profound: stand between Indigenous community members and the spectacle of denialism. OneBC representatives—Dallas Brodie, then a sitting MLA, Frances Widdowson, Tim Thielmann, Jim McMurtry, and others—had arrived with the intention of casting doubt on the discovery of 215 unmarked graves at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School. They wanted…

On a grey Thursday morning at Holyrood, members of the Scottish Parliament’s Climate Action Committee sat down to hear two very different stories about the future of data centres in Scotland. On one side stood the technology industry, eager to paint these vast, humming buildings as a natural fit for a cool, windy nation already blessed with more renewable energy than it knows what to do with. On the other side stood academics and sustainability experts, warning that the same digital boom that powers artificial intelligence, cloud computing and streaming services could swallow the country’s clean electricity at the exact…