Get MP3 (40.7 MB | 34:00 min)Listen to Damien Gillis’ recent appearance on CFRO 102.7 FM’s Wake Up With Co-op, discussing key issues reshaping BC’s economy and environment – including the recent revelation on CNBC’s Mad Money that Enbridge is seeking…
Continue readingTag: Common Sense Journalism
The Common Sense Canadian home page: Shades of Green: Salmon Farming – The Tightening Noose
The Norwegian-owned salmon farming industry that has inundated BC’s West Coast with open net-pen feedlots invariably defends itself against accusations of causing environmental damage by insisting that no evidence exists to definitively prove any such …
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Gas Pipeline Blazing Trail for Enbridge Gateway Project?
During an eight-minute interview with Fox News’ Mad Money host Jim Kramer last week, Enbridge CEO Pat Daniel made a revelation that was at once startling and hardly surprising – one with profound ramifications for several of the key environmental chall…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: CoalWatch Letter Seeks Real Public Consultation on Raven Mine
CoalWatch Comox Valley SocietyPO Box 157Union Bay, BC V0R 3B0250-335-2246www.coalwatch.ca May 17, 2011 The Honourable Terry LakeMinister of EnvironmentProvince of British ColumbiaParliament BuildingsPO Box 9047STN PROV GOVTVictoria, BC V8W 9E…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Growth: Time to Remove its Halo
“No belief in industrial society is so pervasive and so essential to it as ‘progress’ defined in terms of economic growth. It sustains faith in the industrial system and reinforces the hope among the poor that they may also ‘strike it rich'”. – From Ar…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Standing up to Enbridge in an Undemocratic Canada
Last article I spoke of civil disobedience, a legitimate tool of dissent in a democracy when a government makes political decisions without public consultation and to the exclusion of all but the powerful. We have just such a decision forthcoming with …
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Electoral Reform: An Unfinished Conversation
The recent federal election has once again reignited debate about the need to reform our voting system and a “National Day of Action for Electoral Reform” has been called for May 14. The current first part the post (FPTP) system creates majori…
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian home page: Rafe on Christy’s Narrow Win, Looking Forward to General Election
What, if anything, do we read into Premier Christy Clark’s narrow win in the by-election? In one sense it can be said that the only important thing is that she won, but that isn’t so. Of significance is the low turnout. The only example I can …
Continue reading