Progressive-left media outlets weigh in on Alberta energy deal, New Democrat leadership race – iPolitics
December 12, 2025
Here’s what the activist media is reporting on this week.
Amid ongoing debate over exactly what that newly-inked Memorandum of Understanding between the federal government and Alberta could mean for Indigenous land rights — and, more specifically, the “right of affected First Nations to decide on any pipeline in British Columbia,” as unanimously reaffirmed at the yearly Assembly of First Nations Special Chiefs Assembly in Ottawa last week — Ricochet reporter Brandy Morin explains why the “massive backlash” to the deal isn’t a surprise.
“The Canadian and Alberta governments’ failure to meaningfully consult Indigenous Peoples on this pipeline deal is just another chapter in the same colonial playbook that’s been running since Canada’s founding — push Indigenous rights aside, grab the resources, and profit off them,” she notes.
