Nick Gottlieb

British Columbia

Writer at Freelance

Stay at home dog dad. Writer + PhD student @ SFU Geography working on ecological crisis and social movements

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Articles

ICE shows Canadians the frightening path the RCMP is on

2 weeks ago | ricochet.media | Nick Gottlieb

Immigration and Customs Enforcement, known as ICE, is quickly emerging as the Trump administration’s authoritarian secret police force, aggressively sowing terror and suppressing political speech, not just at the country’s borders but throughout the country. But ICE wasn’t founded by Trump: it was a product of President George W. Bush’s so-called War on Terror and has played a fascistic role in the U.S. under both Democratic and Republican administrations ever since.
Canada’s support for LNG is support for Trump’s new form of fossil-fuelled fascism

1 month ago | canadiandimension.com | Nick Gottlieb

American so-called “natural gas” (the mixture of hydrocarbons made up mostly of methane) production began to explode under President Barack Obama and has continued to increase under every president since. Liquified natural gas exports, which involve an energy intensive liquefaction process that enables the gas to be shipped, kicked off around 2016 and have also climbed steadily upwards every year.
To respond to Trump’s tariffs, Canada should nationalize its oil industry

Jan 29, 2025 | canadiandimension.com | Nick Gottlieb

The response to America’s renewed belligerence under Trump 2.0 has been all over the map. Doug Ford, perhaps Canada’s most Trump-like politician, made headlines for his “Canada Is Not For Sale” hat, despite his entire premiership being dedicated to selling off Ontario. BC Premier David Eby, for his part, suggested we might tax the Alaska Highway or ban American liquor and asked British Columbians not to vacation in the US.
From Kanehsatà:ke to Palestine

Nov 28, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Nick Gottlieb

Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel with Sean Carleton Between the Lines, 2024 At 5:15 am on July 11, 1990, the Sûreté de Québec (SQ), the provincial police force, along with the RCMP and other paramilitary units, marched on a blockade on a dirt road in Kanehsatà:ke, about 50 kilometres west of Montréal. As Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel tells it in her new memoir, When the Pine Needles Fall: Indigenous Acts of Resistance, written in conversation with Sean Carleton (a former Canadian Dimension editorial...
The destruction of the UN is the destruction of the world

Nov 12, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Nick Gottlieb

Israel is destroying the United Nations, and with it, our only venue for an internationally coordinated project of climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Voting “yes” on the TSSU BDS referendum is a concrete step towards ending the genocide

Oct 22, 2024 | the-peak.ca | Nick Gottlieb |Omri Haiven

By: Nick Gottlieb and Omri Haiven, SFU students“It’s like we’re watching Auschwitz on TikTok.” That’s how Canadian physician Dr. Gabor Maté, himself a Jewish survivor of the Holocaust, described the horrific videos coming out of north Gaza this week. We are Jewish graduate students at SFU who share Dr. Maté’s horror at the violence being perpetrated by the state of Israel.
Blockades and Protests Greet New Pipeline Project

Aug 28, 2024 | thetyee.ca | Nick Gottlieb

At 6 a.m. Monday, Richard C. Mercer, a Nisga’a member, parked his truck across Highway 113, the Cranberry Connector, just outside Gitlax̱t’aamiks, B.C. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners CONTEST: Win Two Tickets to 'Eyes of the Beast' Two Tyee readers will secure seats to the visceral production in Victoria that brings viewers into the lived experience of climate disaster.
A New Pipeline Battle Looms for BC

Aug 22, 2024 | thetyee.ca | Nick Gottlieb

“I sure hope it doesn’t come to it, but we are prepared.” Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners Join the Vancouver Fringe Festival for Their 40th Anniversary The beloved performing arts showcase is back this September on Granville Island. That summarized the messages from more than 20 speakers opposing the proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission pipeline at a community town hall in Kispiox, B.C., last month.
Nick Gottlieb

Jun 26, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Nick Gottlieb

Renewable transition or global US empire? You can’t have both Fossil fuels did not require a world ruled by a single dominant power, nor will renewables guarantee a radically egalitarian future. But the American empire as it exists requires global dependence on fossil fuels to maintain its position. Powerful parts of the US state, including the military, clearly understand this. It’s long past time the rest of us caught up.
Renewable transition or global US empire? You can’t have both

Jun 26, 2024 | canadiandimension.com | Nick Gottlieb

There is no path to a renewable future which leaves American hegemony in place EnvironmentWar ZonesUSA Politics The United States has a material, vested interest in obstructing progress on climate change. This argument, laid out by Amitav Ghosh in his 2021 book The Nutmeg’s Curse, is crucial for understanding the politics not just of climate change, but of the world: everything from the American trade war against Chinese renewable technologies to the ongoing genocide in Gaza can be linked to...