From the news archives: Site C history
Globe and Mail, October 4, 1979: British Columbia Hydro has announced plans to apply for approval for a hydro-electric power project at Site C on the Peace River… Globe and…
2014
Metro’s congestion tax referendum is on the wrong track: Opinion
The following is a letter to the editor from Malcolm Johnston of Rail for the Valley. One has to shake one’s head with the ‘Metro Vancouver congestion improvement tax’ referendum,…
Democracy Now-Big Oil-Bad Air
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The tide is turning in the US and Canada regarding the pitfalls and dangers of fracking and the entire LNG play. Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, New…
Life In Scarborough: The Celebrities Of Scarborough
I sat next to a gal at a bar today who claimed to have been in show-business once. She said she knew Hugh Hefner and had visited the Bunny Ranch,…
Hidden subsidies to big business
In June 2011, Postmedia reported comments about Site C by David Conway, Community Relations Manager with BC Hydro. When you get down to the cost per megawatt, this option even…
UN Climate Talks Face Long, Hard Road to Paris Next Winter
With yet another United Nations high level conference making little real progress on slowing climate change, a near miracle will be required if countries are to reach a meaningful and…
Misogyny at Dal: When we are sick of being forced down the middle road of apology and contrition
Photo by Anton Bielousov My mother was a Dentistry graduate at the University of Toronto in 1943. As I look at her class graduation photo, I count 44 men and…
Setting The Record Straight
Weakly constituted as I am when it comes to tolerating disingenuous and dishonest political theatre, I was unable to watch the Chief Prevaricator, a.k.a. the Prime Minister, while his chief…
Top Environmental Law Alerts of 2014
Friday, December 19, 2014 It’s been a busy year – with West Coast sounding the alarm on some major changes to BC’s laws and analyzing and commenting on other legal…
My Name Is Ozymandias
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’ Recommend this Post
“The environment IS the economy” says Tory MP Weston…Really?
Tory MP John Weston (from his annual Christmas video message/Youtube) There is surely nothing quite as ridiculous as a Tory pretending that he cares. Money and rich friends they understand…
On The WRP Collapse
Much has been made of the WRP’s collapse in Alberta this past week. Everything from speculation about the role of various people, to Ms. Smith more or less admitting that…
Groups call on BC and Science World to end LNG promotion
Advocacy groups and concerned citizens have signed an open letter demanding that the British Columbia government and Science World cancel their province-wide community seminars promoting the liquefied natural gas (LNG)…
User Experience on Private School Admission Websites
Serving as my school’s Digital and Social Media Specialist, my tasks can vary from week to week but my ultimate goal is “enhancing both internal and external marketing efforts.” A…
RCMP implements new security protocol for the PM in parliament
Filed under: GIFS, Making fun of Harper
Bill C-46 Could Transform Pipeline Liability Law in Canada. But Will it Be for the Better?
This is a guest post by Ian Miron, Ecojustice staff lawyer. Proposed pipeline liability regime steps in the right direction, but leaves too much wiggle room for polluters. At this…
Ricochet: Canada’s privacy deficit widens alarmingly as Supreme Court permits police to search cellphones
This piece was originally published by Ricochet Media. Canada’s privacy deficit widened further last week, following a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that police do not need a warrant to…
No to pipelines, yes to Site C?
Peace River Valley No to pipelines, yes to Site C? Here’s a piece I wrote for Ricochet after getting riled up by *some* of the arguments against Site C. The…
Parliament Should Go Solar
Following up on my 2010 blog post on solar for the White House, it takes almost 3 years to get solar added to a historic national building. That’s why we…
Austerity and Trickle Down Meanness
Alex Himelfarb, former clerk of the Privy Council, was interviewed by Adam Kahane. POSSIBLE CANADAS ON BUILDING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES In this excerpt of Adam Kahane’s interview published here in the…