David McKie
@davidmckie.bsky.social
David McKie is Canada National Observer's deputy managing editor, data-journalism trainer, and teaches at Carleton U., the University of King's College and TMU
Donald Trump probably won't order the military invasion of Canada. But continued attacks on our informational ecosystem — and the cultural and political institutions that support it — is a virtual certainty. It's time for us to shore up those defence www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/04/o...
Trumpism's war on the truth is coming to Canada. We need to be ready
The Trump administration has made it clear that it will use almost everything at its disposal in its broader war on the truth. If we're not careful here in Canada, we'll become one of its casualties.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:38 PM
Donald Trump probably won't order the military invasion of Canada. But continued attacks on our informational ecosystem — and the cultural and political institutions that support it — is a virtual certainty. It's time for us to shore up those defence www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/04/o...
Mark Carney just shook up the world www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
Mark Carney just shook up the world
His speech in Davos might be the most important one ever delivered by a Canadian prime minister. Its consequences will determine his place in history — and ours.
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January 21, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Mark Carney just shook up the world www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
Trump will use the Greenland argument to grab Canada's Northwest Passage www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
Trump will use the Greenland argument to grab Canada's Northwest Passage
A 1988 agreement between Canada and the United States about the sea lane left its legal status largely undecided, allowing both countries to assert their respective positions. But now, thanks to US Pr...
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January 20, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Trump will use the Greenland argument to grab Canada's Northwest Passage www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
It's time to think the unthinkable: what would you do if the United States threatened to invade Canada? We already know this much: many Conservatives would rather fold than fight. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
Canada’s fifth columnists are showing their hand
Donald Trump is threatening to invade Greenland, and Canada might be next. It's time to look around and figure out who would fight back — and who would surrender.
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January 20, 2026 at 1:51 PM
It's time to think the unthinkable: what would you do if the United States threatened to invade Canada? We already know this much: many Conservatives would rather fold than fight. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
Canada’s “new relationship” with China marks the return of realpolitik
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The world as it is
Canada’s “new relationship” with China marks the return of realpolitik.
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January 17, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Canada’s “new relationship” with China marks the return of realpolitik
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Sorry, Donald: clean energy is going to win, whether you and the rest of the fossil fuel boosters like it or not. The only questions left are how fast it will happen — and how far behind countries like America will fall. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/15/o...
The triumph of clean energy is inevitable
The ever-improving economics of technologies like wind, solar, EVs, and battery storage have become insurmountable — and, for countries in the developing world, irresistible.
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January 15, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Sorry, Donald: clean energy is going to win, whether you and the rest of the fossil fuel boosters like it or not. The only questions left are how fast it will happen — and how far behind countries like America will fall. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/15/o...
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A clear and appalling sign that this administration will set no limits on its acts of aggression against an independent press. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
FBI executes search warrant at Washington Post reporter’s home
The reporter, Hannah Natanson, covers the federal workforce and has been part of The Post’s most sensitive coverage of the first year of the second Trump administration.
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January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
A clear and appalling sign that this administration will set no limits on its acts of aggression against an independent press. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Elon Musk's "everything" has morphed into a digital equivalent of Times Square in the late 1970s: seedy, unsupervised and inherently unsafe. It's time for Canada's elected officials to leave it behind — and embrace a new technological future. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/o...
Twitter is a litmus test for Canada
With Twitter, the medium really is the message — one that should be clearly unacceptable for our elected officials and political leaders.
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January 13, 2026 at 2:07 PM
Elon Musk's "everything" has morphed into a digital equivalent of Times Square in the late 1970s: seedy, unsupervised and inherently unsafe. It's time for Canada's elected officials to leave it behind — and embrace a new technological future. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/o...
Tim Hodgson's briefing materials reveal points of leverage and opportunities for collaboration, offering an unprecedented view into the complex terrain of major project negotiations. Here are what the provinces and territories want most. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/n...
Hodgson’s briefing binder reveals provincial asks for new fossil fuels, critical minerals and electricity
In 2025, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government began building the architecture to develop major projects, but 2026 is when the rubber meets the road. Here’s what the provinces and territories want t...
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January 13, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Tim Hodgson's briefing materials reveal points of leverage and opportunities for collaboration, offering an unprecedented view into the complex terrain of major project negotiations. Here are what the provinces and territories want most. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/12/n...
A cold-blooded murder
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A cold-blooded murder
Friends,
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January 9, 2026 at 2:06 AM
A cold-blooded murder
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Ontario First Nation says Ottawa still slow to act after 18 years of water issues www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/n...
Ontario First Nation says Ottawa still slow to act after 18 years of water issues
A remote Cree community on the shores of James Bay has declared a state of emergency after its water treatment plant failed this week — a crisis residents say the federal government is responding to f...
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January 8, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Ontario First Nation says Ottawa still slow to act after 18 years of water issues www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/n...
The same firm ran a campaign to save CBC — and Canada Proud's push to defund it www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/i...
The same firm ran a campaign to save CBC — and Canada Proud's push to defund it
“It's like the Trump administration promoting Biden in an ad campaign,” said Ahmed Al-Rawi, Director of the Disinformation Project at Simon Fraser University. “This is unreal, like science fiction.”
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January 8, 2026 at 12:15 PM
The same firm ran a campaign to save CBC — and Canada Proud's push to defund it www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/i...
New pipeline for Canada not the answer to Venezuela crisis www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/07/n...
New pipeline for Canada not the answer to Venezuela crisis
Any global crisis will have the fossil fuel industry and its allies pushing more oil and gas, but nothing about the US's takeover of Venezuela changes the long term forecast for oil demand or the clim...
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January 7, 2026 at 2:07 PM
New pipeline for Canada not the answer to Venezuela crisis www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/07/n...
Climate change is multiplying the risks for Canada's food safety agency www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/06/n...
Climate change is multiplying the risks for Canada's food safety agency
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is already juggling multiple emergencies and costly climate change impacts and says another foreign animal disease outbreak like foot-and-mouth disease could push i...
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January 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Climate change is multiplying the risks for Canada's food safety agency www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/06/n...
Ottawa is committing more funding to its climate goals. Is it enough? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/05/n...
Ottawa is committing more funding to its climate goals. Is it enough?
The city is investing $94 million into projects that “apply a climate lens” in the city, but advocates insist that more is urgently needed.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Ottawa is committing more funding to its climate goals. Is it enough? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/05/n...
Canadian government officials, what are you still doing on X in 2026? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/02/o...
Canadian government officials, what are you still doing on X in 2026?
The platform's own chatbot started posting sexualized material of children and other people who couldn't consent. With no moral bottom in sight, it's well past time our officials found other ways to c...
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January 2, 2026 at 8:46 PM
Canadian government officials, what are you still doing on X in 2026? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/02/o...
How National Observer made a difference in 2025 www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/17/o...
How National Observer made a difference in 2025
As editor-in-chief, I believe you have a right to know how we’ve spent your dollars. But how to quantify impact when so much of what we do happens inside the minds of the people we reach?
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December 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
How National Observer made a difference in 2025 www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/17/o...
Building Canada Stronger — without us www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/29/o...
Building Canada Stronger — without us
Youth representation in decision-making spaces holds politicians and policymakers accountable for the generational impacts of their choices.
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December 29, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Building Canada Stronger — without us www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/29/o...
Japanese tree-planting technique helps combat climate change in cities www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/n...
Japanese tree-planting technique helps combat climate change in cities
This method has become popular globally, with different organizations worldwide vouching for its effectiveness, especially as they can grow 10 times faster than normal plantings. The method employs de...
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December 29, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Japanese tree-planting technique helps combat climate change in cities www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/n...
“What I see as really exciting about the mini forest method is that it helps to create a forest area in a matter of decades versus a matter of centuries,” Jenn McCallum, manager of green infrastructure for Green Communities Canada, said. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/n...
This Japanese tree-planting technique helps combat climate change in cities
This method has become popular globally, with different organizations worldwide vouching for its effectiveness, especially as they can grow 10 times faster than normal plantings. The method employs de...
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December 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“What I see as really exciting about the mini forest method is that it helps to create a forest area in a matter of decades versus a matter of centuries,” Jenn McCallum, manager of green infrastructure for Green Communities Canada, said. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/24/n...
Meet the director at the heart of Carleton's sustainability efforts www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/23/n...
Meet the director at the heart of Carleton's sustainability efforts
Scott Macdonald is Carleton University’s director of energy and sustainability. His work and open-mindedness have helped the school become increasingly sustainable and push for a net-zero goal.
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December 23, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Meet the director at the heart of Carleton's sustainability efforts www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/23/n...
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Thanks to @rorywh.bsky.social @jameswsthomson.com @davidmckie.bsky.social - Their vision brought us Civic Searchlight- a nation of journalists invigorating local reporting thru new tools on one platform. Each publication, researcher & citizen slaying disinformation. That's a way forward.
@lindasolomonwood.bsky.social: “2026 can be the year we build more shared infrastructure that makes municipal governance searchable, comparable, and trackable at national scale.”
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December 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Thanks to @rorywh.bsky.social @jameswsthomson.com @davidmckie.bsky.social - Their vision brought us Civic Searchlight- a nation of journalists invigorating local reporting thru new tools on one platform. Each publication, researcher & citizen slaying disinformation. That's a way forward.
Transboundary animals ‘imperiled’ by Trump rollbacks to endangered species, warn wildlife advocates www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/19/a...
Transboundary animals ‘imperiled’ by Trump rollbacks to endangered species, warn wildlife advocates
More than 1,600 animals are currently listed as endangered or threatened under the 52-year-old ESA, which designates “critical habitat” for imperiled species through restrictions on commercial activit...
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December 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Transboundary animals ‘imperiled’ by Trump rollbacks to endangered species, warn wildlife advocates www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/19/a...