BC Oil and Gas Commission abandons orphan wells
Fracking operations in BC’s Montney Shale (Photo: Damien Gillis) Despite admitting there is an increasing trend of inactive well sites awaiting reclamation, the BC Oil and Gas Commission has slashed…
April 2014
April 17: No foreign news…doh-dee-doh
In the midst of the worst, international crisis we have seen in 50 years – maybe ever – the Tand T has not a single word of foreign news in…
Canadian government dumps on wild salmon population with new fish farming regulations
(Photo: Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals) Read this Apr. 16th article in the Vancouver Sun about the Conservatives unethical effort to expand BC fish farming by temporarily exempting the Fisheries…
Annulment for lack of consummation
Annulment is a rare proceeding in modern Canadian law. That said, it is available and proof of non-consummation does not require independent evidence. So the Ontario Court of Appeal set…
B.C. Pulls About-Face After First Nations Call Removal of Gas Development Environmental Assessment a ‘Declaration of War’
B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak has reversed and apologized for excluding First Nations from two amendments that would eliminate the province’s mandatory environmental assessment of gas developments and ski resorts.…
Ukraine: Russia advances its creeping-federalization agenda
Ukraine: Doors open for Putin Today, much to the surprise of some, a public agreement was announced by the US, Russia, EU and current Ukraine government, dealing with concrete steps…
When special interests buy a government
Before BC Liberals were first elected in 2001, they promised natural resource producers to materially cut the public share of values extracted. They kept their promise and producers filled party…
Interview: Big Men Director Rachel Boynton on Oil, Ghana and "Responsible Capitalism"
The subtitle of the newly released documentary film Big Men is “everyone wants to be big” and to say the film covers a “big” topic is to put it mildly.…
Increased Mosquito Habitat One Among Many Climate Change Impacts Threatening Public Health
In May 2000 in the town of Walkerton, Ontario, heavy rains swept water containing the O157:H7 strain of E. coli bacteria from a nearby farm into a well of drinking…
Landmark ruling on rights of Métis upheld
Story The Federal Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling from last year that said Ottawa is constitutionally responsible for the 400,000 Métis in Canada as a distinct aboriginal group,…
Schadenfreude
Nation, it’s been an interesting few months to be me, politically-speaking. We’ll talk more about that soon – I promise. What hit my radar yesterday was the news that 53…
Schadenfreude
Nation, it's been an interesting few months to be me, politically-speaking. We'll talk more about that soon - I promise.What hit my radar yesterday was the news that 53 Alberta…
Schadenfreude
Nation, it’s been an interesting few months to be me, politically-speaking. We’ll talk more about that soon – I promise. What hit my radar yesterday was the news that 53…
Reduce Your Wardrobe
It’s easy to acquire clothes nowadays and the consumerist society which we have created encourages us to continually update our clothes for the latest fad. This can be expensive and…
LOLITA writing contest
This is it. I am hosting a writing contest. There is a prize. TWO prizes, to be honest. But ‘cept the two prizes are two individual things that are actually…
This One Change Would Make the Oilsands No Longer Worth Developing
This is a guest post by Andrew Leach, Enbridge Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Alberta. The article originally appeared in Maclean’s magazine and is republished here with…
CBC: Cord-cutting continues as Canadians ditch TV & landlines
More and more Canadians are ditching Big Telecom’s price gouging on phone and TV services. What about you? Article from The CBC More Canadians are abandoning traditional telephones and TV…
Please Share: Our image about what the copyright implications of TPP negotiations could cost you
Ever burned a DVD to your computer? Got a spare $10,000 kicking around? No? Then you’d better pay attention to the upcoming TPP negotiations. LIKE and SHARE to keep that…