Australia’s Colongra gas-powered electrical plant – similar technology would be needed to power BC’s LNG VICTORIA – British Columbia’s pledge to develop the world’s cleanest liquefied natural gas plants looks…
Tweet With a feeling of excitement in the air, Nomination Day came and went today as residents across Alberta officially became candidates in this year’s municipal election. With nearly 120…
What’s it like living in a small town that’s gone from rust belt farmland to fracking boomtown? First, residents often say, there’s the traffic. Communities have been unexpectedly flooded with…
There’s no denying that Texas is the state that dirty energy built. It remains the single largest source of domestically produced oil in the United States, and currently has more…
By Joe Fantauzzi @jjfantauzzi At the core of many modern democracies is the concept of freedom. Variations of the word “free” appear 27 times in the text of Canada’s Charter…
Before the May 2013 election, BC Liberals promised the entire provincial debt, budgeted this year at $62.5 billion, could be eliminated within 15 years with government proceeds of natural gas…
It’s a bit of Kremlinology admittedly, and therefore an inexact science. But that photo of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Toronto Mayor Rob Ford? It’s a shocker. To some of…
A recent rally for science in Vancouver (photo: Damien Gillis) Even The New York Times is starting to question Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s anti-science agenda, which recently spurred 17 cross-Canada…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger I suspect that many of you are getting as tired of hearing about yet another CVRD screw up and outright failure to responsibly represent the taxpaying…
As the referendum on whether to privatize Regina’s wastewater plant nears, the Regina Leader-Post is printing a column a day advocating the P3: John Gormley on Friday, Bruce Johnstone on…
Canada’s role in weakening encryption has made it easier for malicious hackers to thrive. According to Montreal Gazette report Jason Magder, we should be very, very angry about government spying.…
Know what Pope Francis likes about globalization? Nothing. Big fat zero. Visiting an Italian region especially hard hit by the European economic crisis, Pope Francis blamed high unemployment on globalization…
The Ontario PCs almost walked away from the brink this weekend. Last year the provincial Tories introduced a white paper advocating U.S.-style labour policies that would undo the rights working…
by Nathan Masters on September 22, 2011 3:00 PM Fifty-eight years ago today, the Four Level interchange first opened to traffic. This iconic concrete ribbon that binds the 101 and…
Matt Bors: Political cartoonist for Medium. Author of Life Begins At Incorporation
Stephen Harper has been trying to win over Barack Obama on the stalled Keystone XL pipeline (Adrian Wyld/CP) Prime Minister Stephen Harper looks increasingly desperate to find ways for expanding…
With the release of a major climate science report by the United Nations coming this week, the self-proclaimed climate “skeptics,” better referred to as the climate deniers or flat-earthers, are…
Over at Huffington Post, someone noticed that the New York Times spent some significant column space raking Harper over the coals for how he has abused Canada’s science community. I…
There is nothing ‘alleged‘ about Harper muzzling scientists, idiot. Mr. Woods also gives the final word of the article to notorious liar Joe Oliver: “Americans are free to oppose resource…
