News Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 1, 2020 Cowichan Valley declares state of local emergency as intense localized flooding forces evacuations and disrupts transportation Duncan, BC – The Cowichan Valley…
It’s actually $2.12 billion CDN, $1.6 billion USD. That’s the write-off Chevron is taking on its Kitimat LNG investment, an interest the company is still trying to sell. Chevron chief…
Season Two of the “Magpie Brûlé” podcast has started. In this premiere episode of Season two, I talk about the return of the House of Commons, the interesting early dynamics…
Former Canadian Minister of National Defence, Peter MacKay, and US Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta, left, chat informally before sitting down for a meeting in the Pentagon on Sept.…
On the opening of the second session of the 42nd Manitoba legislature in November, the Progressive Conservative government’s Speech from the Throne noted worrying plans to “reduce red tape for…
A mural depicts the Iranian national flag in Tehran on September 19, 2019. Photo by AFP. The tensions that emanated from the US assassination of General Qassam Soleimani on January…
Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally in Vallejo, California, 2016. Photo by Shelly Prevost (Flickr). With Jeremy Corbyn’s crushing defeat in the 2019 UK general election, which saw the bifurcation…
A Green New Deal sign is held up in front of the sculpture “The Crier” by artist Gerhard Marcks near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Sept. 20. Photo by…
Spotted on the Deutsche Welle web site, this photo of a pilot aboard a jetliner flying passengers out of China, presumably Wuhan. Overkill? You decide. A German military aircraft carrying…
This morning, the divorce is official. The UK has left the European Union. And, Ian McEwan writes, it was all done with “magic dust”: The only certainty is that we’ll…
The stark beauty of winter, with, thank goodness, the promise of lengthening days. The sun is coming up about 7:15 these days, which means that there’s a hint of light…
This might not be a theological question. How can a well-known American lawyer stand in front of the senate and the nation and tell us a man elected by the…
It’s amazing to me, to see, even in thoughtful writings, even in exceptionally thoughtful writing, which is as far above the norm as the moon is from the bottom…
An independent labour arbitrator yesterday awarded unionized Alberta government employees and health care support workers a modest 1-per-cent pay increase for 2019. Having gone into wage-reopener negotiations in the final…
