When seven trillion dollars speaks, people listen. That’s the sort of clout BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, commands when he announces that, going forward, his firm will incorporate environmental sustainability in…
Originally published by sixmountains.ca. Logging has been taking place on Mount Tzouhalem in the Six Mountains, but this time it’s not the Municipality of North Cowichan. Cowichan Tribes has been…
Here, on how the costs of approving the Teck Frontier tar sands mine likely include locking Canada into another cycle of public subsidies for a dying oil sector – making…
In politics sometimes there are stories that happen that you can’t help but follow. For me one such story has been the case of now-former Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido. Those…
In the wake of Donald Trump’s acquittal, Senator Sherrod Brown has written a devastating op-ed about the fear which grips the Republican Party: History has indeed taught us that when…
For many office workers there is little reason to go to the office thanks to the advances in technology (it seems the only reason to be in an actual office…
It has always been the argument. Does Canada need a diplomat or a political apparatchik representing us in the American capital? I also expect some humourist to suggest we go…
The president of the Alberta Federation of Labour called out the Canadian Taxpayers Federation yesterday for the partisan role it plays supporting of the Kenney Government’s contract demands in negotiations…
Self-proclaimed Interim President of Venezuela, Juan Guaidó, speaks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa. Photo by Dave Chan/AFP. Last week, Venezuelan politician Juan Guaidó was fêted in Ottawa. The…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rips her copy of Trump’s State of the Union address after he finishes delivering it. (Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images) Following a typically Trumpian State of the…
US President Donald Trump steps to the podium to begin his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington. On Tuesday, Donald…
Photo Credit: Judy Green The Green Party is the second federal party holding a leadership race this year after the lovely Elizabeth May announced in 2019 that she was stepping…
This article is cross-posted with Anti-Racist Sudbury, and can be found on here. ARC has wanted to cover the extensive harassment being suffered by Fierte Sudbury Pride for some time…
This is the same Department of Fisheries and Oceans that ruined the east coast cod fishery. Among their litany of outrages on the west coast are the fish farms where…
Dear Duncan Mayor and Councillors: I realize city council and public works have many priorities but please consider a new one to repave the atrociously decayed blacktop, in both directions,…
By MAD, I refer to the doctrine of “mutually assured destruction” that is credited with averting a major nuclear exchange of ICBMs by the American or Soviets during the Cold…
Permafrost that thaws abruptly releases twice as much greenhouse gas as when it thaws gradually. The problem is that much of the permafrost is now thawing much faster than had…
When North Americans began kicking the habit, Big Tobacco opened up new markets for their “cancer sticks” overseas, especially across Asia Pacific. Now, Big Pharma, reeling from the pushback over…
Dear Mayors and Councillors of North Cowichan and Duncan: I appreciate multi-million-dollar diking in and around Duncan and North Cowichan in recent years was well intentioned and did prevent flooding…
This poor guy is the process server who was tasked with delivering @MaximeBernier’s lawsuit against me for suggesting he promotes racism. I insisted we take a picture together in the…
