Muskrat Falls costs break $8.0 billion #nlpoli
$6.99 billion is the new cost estimate for the Muskrat Falls dam and the link to the island. With that much money and with such a record of inaccurate forecasts, …
June 2014
Temporary Foreign Worker Program- “lifted the suspension of previously approved LMOs and introduced a new program regime.”
June 20, 2014. Dear Business Owner, Subject: Reconfirmation of previously suspended labour market opinions(s)- System file number(s): 8059947 On May 1, 2014, a letter was sent informing you of the
Revealed: Heather Zichal Met with Cheniere Executives as Obama Energy Aide Before Board Nomination
Heather Zichal, former deputy assistant for energy and climate change to President Barack Obama and nominee to sit on the board of directors of LNG export company Cheniere Energy Inc.,…
How the Tsilhqot’in Land Title Ruling Can Help Kill Enbridge
Watch Pam Palmater’s response to the SCC ruling. Click above. Stephen Harper had about a week to enjoy the glory of his remarkably understated whispery notification that the Enbridge climate…
Maybe it’s time to state the obvious: promises aren’t enough for Alberta Tories to win back any progressive votes
Tory leadership front-runner Jim Prentice on the campaign trail. Below: Former premier Alison Redford; Education Minister, though presumably not for long, Jeff Johnson; leadership candidate Thomas Lukaszuk. Perhaps it’s time…
The Redford legacy haunts Prentice Tories
TweetMost people rely on TripAdvisor or call a travel agent to book hotels for overseas trips, but it is alleged by intrepid CBC investigative journalists that former Premier Alison Redford…
You don’t really see letters that change perceptions, anymore
Thus one does. Wow.
Letter to The Star Re: When free speech becomes hate crime (Letters, June 23)
From among the throngs walking past, largely ignoring him, a street preacher standing with a mic and an amplifier in front of Old City Hall called me out leaving the…
In Tuesday’s Sun: at least one guy knew he was “just visiting”
What I want to know is this: when he told Harvard University that he was indeed returning to a full-time teaching position in Boston – when he signed on the…
Vancouver officially declared city built on First Nations’ ‘unceded land’
The Vancouver City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to acknowledge that the city sits on “unceded land” traditionally belonging to the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. The post Vancouver…
Have the Conservatives Finally Learned Their Lesson?
The federal Conservative government has been pulling its horns in lately: witness the low-key way the Enbridge pipeline approval was announced recently and how Conservative MPs ducked the media; the…
The Sad Record Of Our Last Parliamentary Session
Star reader David Buckna, of Kelowna, B.C., offers a searing and accurate assessment of our latest session of Parliament: Federal MPs are back in their ridings for the summer, and…
Beluga battle: Vancouver Aquarium defends captive whales as good science
Amid calls that whales and dolphins in captivity are “cruel” – the Vancouver Aquarium showcases research aimed at improving belugas’ lives in a warming Arctic Mychaylo Prystupa Posted: Jun 26th,…
Section 13 Is Officially Dead…
Long Live Section 13. But during its death spiral the whole notion of having a hate speech provision in the Canadian Human Rights Act was judged perfectly constitutional. And with…
Obama Administration Secretly Weakening EPA Rules
One of highest hopes that environmentally-minded Americans had for President Obama when he first entered office was that he would finally put an end to the secrecy that marred the…
Historic Supreme Court Ruling Grants Land Title To Tsilhqot’in First Nation
In a historic ruling written by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, the Supreme Court of Canada has granted land title to British Columbia’s Tsilhqot’in First Nation. The post Historic Supreme Court…
EFF: Canadian Court to the Entire World: No Links For You!
Has the B.C. Supreme Court lost its mind? Article by Maira Sutton for EFF The Supreme Court of British Columbia has ordered Google to remove entire domains from its search…