Site C Dam will unnecessarily cost taxpayers billions, says one financial expert The following is a transcript of Rob Botterell’s recent speech to the BC Select Committee on Finance and…
It is (though you can ask for a translation)! It defaults to “http://fr.canoe.ca/”;” http://eng.canoe.ca/” dead ends. Has Quebecor abandoned English Canada after the sale of thei5r English properties?
Alberta bitumen (Source: Suncor) Read this October 7 Reuters story on the EU’s decision to abandon its labelling of Canadian bitumen as a more polluting oil source – after years…
Yesterday, the Canadian media got a whole lot smaller and a tiny bit bigger. The massive PostMedia newspaper chain gobbled up the massive SUN newspaper chain, further concentrating and consolidating…
Cabana v. Newfoundland and Labrador, 2014 NLCA 34 : The manner in which a judge conducts a hearing may result in a reasonable apprehension of bias disqualifying the judge from…
When one corporation owns most of the English language newspapers in Canada, the free press is essentially dead, not that it’s been much of anything but comatose for a while.…
Disappointment has turned to optimism for members of the Ktunaxa Nation, who are hoping that, over the summer, B.C.’s legal pendulum swung in favour of First Nations. In April, the…
Prepare yourself for a rare moment of honesty from the oil industry. It happened on Sept. 23 at a hearing of the North Dakota Industrial Commission during a discussion on…
It’s Monday. I’ve been watching Harper and his crowd preaching to the House of Commons on TV. It reminded me of graduate school days. One of my teachers was Arthur…
While some of the electorate gets all primed to receive the bauble of tax breaks next year, responding as intended to the carefully orchestrated neo-liberal siren call to worry only…
John Scull By John Scull A group calling themselves the Cowichan Taxbusters have been getting a good deal of attention recently. I looked at their website. Paraphrasing Oscal Wilde, they…
MARIA GIMBUTAS WAS RIGHT Relative gender equality’ revealed at Çatalhöyük“There was no leader, government or administrative building; men and women were equal,” “Thanks to modern scientific techniques, we have seen…
Today I feel so much better about living in Canada. Once again, we have a political party that says no to war. A political party that says no to letting…
It’s no secret where the F-35 is intended to operate – in the highly-defended airspace of just two countries, China and Russia. The F-35 and its big brother the F-22…
Even though the political spectrum has been compressed into the hardtack of neoliberalism there remain at least notional differences between left, centre and right in our national body politic. Yet…
At a time when B.C.’s politicians are considering flooding the Peace Valley for the Site C hydroelectric dam, a new project by the Canadian Geothermal Energy Association says the province…
Your news links for today: Postmedia could soon own almost every English newspaper in Canada. What could possibly go wrong? – The Tyee Quebecor Selling Media Assets to Fund Wireless…
A guest blog post from Louis-Philippe Rochon: GETTING YOUR ARTICLES PUBLISHED: JOURNAL EDITORS OFFER SOME ADVICE This short note is aimed at graduate students and faculty members alike who are…
THE CURRENT CRISIS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM; KURDISTAN A Letter I have sent to Her Majesties Loyal Opposition in regards to the Parliamentary Debate…
Eleven Nobel laureates have joined forces to call for revolutionary change in everything from how we live, how we work and how we travel. Only by switching to smarter, less…
