Hidden Costs of Congestion Pricier than Proposed Vancouver Transit Tax: New Study
Congestion and gridlock are bad for business and bad for communities, finds a new study by the C.D. Howe Institute. When people are stuck in traffic — or even faced…
Carol Linnitt
B.C. First Nation Sues Province for ‘Unprecedented Industrial Disturbance’ in Treaty 8 Territory
The Blueberry River First Nation from northeastern B.C. has filed a lawsuit against the province for allowing “unprecedented industrial disturbance” to threaten “their way of life,” according to a press…
B.C. First Nation Sues Province for ‘Unprecedented Industrial Disturbance’ in Treaty 8 Territory
The Blueberry River First Nation from northeastern B.C. has filed a lawsuit against the province for allowing “unprecedented industrial disturbance” to threaten “their way of life,” according to a press…
CSIS “Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny” Spying on Me (Or You For That Matter)
When I asked the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) whether it has files on me or DeSmog Canada, I got a response that’s been used as a non-answer by government…
CSIS “Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny” Spying on Me (Or You For That Matter)
When I asked the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) whether it has files on me or DeSmog Canada, I got a response that’s been used as a non-answer by government…
More than 100 Legal Experts Urge Parliament to Amend or Kill Anti-Terrorism Bill C-51
Legal experts from across Canada are urging all parliamentarians to “ensure that C-51 not be enacted in anything resembling its present form.” They argue, in an open letter published on…
More than 100 Legal Experts Urge Parliament to Amend or Kill Anti-Terrorism Bill C-51
Legal experts from across Canada are urging all parliamentarians to “ensure that C-51 not be enacted in anything resembling its present form.” They argue, in an open letter published on…
Leaked RCMP Report Fuels Fears Harper’s Anti-Terrorism Bill will Target Enviros, First Nations
The federal government’s anti-terrorism bill C-51 was the subject of heated parliamentary debate recently after revelations that the RCMP characterized pipeline opponents and First Nations as “violent anti-petroleum extremists” in…
Leaked RCMP Report Fuels Fears Harper’s Anti-Terrorism Bill will Target Enviros, First Nations
The federal government’s anti-terrorism bill C-51 was the subject of heated parliamentary debate recently after revelations that the RCMP characterized pipeline opponents and First Nations as “violent anti-petroleum extremists” in…
Prime Minister and Allies Working to ‘Neutralize’ Environmental Opposition, Says Harperism Author Donald Gutstein
In his recent book Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues have Transformed Canada, author and adjunct SFU professor Donald Gutstein outlines a battle being waged in Canada…
Prime Minister and Allies Working to ‘Neutralize’ Environmental Opposition, Says Harperism Author Donald Gutstein
In his recent book Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tank Colleagues have Transformed Canada, author and adjunct SFU professor Donald Gutstein outlines a battle being waged in Canada…
Kinder Morgan, NEB Draw Ire for Oil Spill Response Plans Released in Washington State, But Not B.C.
Since DeSmog Canada broke the story two weeks ago that Kinder Morgan publicly released its emergency oil spill plans for the Trans Mountain pipeline in Washington State while withholding or…
Kinder Morgan, NEB Draw Ire for Oil Spill Response Plans Released in Washington State, But Not B.C.
Since DeSmog Canada broke the story two weeks ago that Kinder Morgan publicly released its emergency oil spill plans for the Trans Mountain pipeline in Washington State while withholding or…
DFO Slams Kinder Morgan’s Shoddy Analysis of Oil Tankers’ Impact on Whales
A report submitted to the National Energy Board (NEB) by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) points to “insufficient information and analysis” in Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline…
DFO Slams Kinder Morgan’s Shoddy Analysis of Oil Tankers’ Impact on Whales
A report submitted to the National Energy Board (NEB) by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) points to “insufficient information and analysis” in Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline…
DeSmogCAST 11: Corporate Political Influence, UK Fracking and Rick Perry’s Dirty Energy Ties
In this episode of DeSmogCAST’s Farron Cousin, Carol Linnitt, Kyla Mandel and Brendan DeMelle kick things off with a discussion about corporate spending in Canada and how the oil and…
DeSmogCAST 11: Corporate Political Influence, UK Fracking and Rick Perry’s Dirty Energy Ties
In this episode of DeSmogCAST’s Farron Cousin, Carol Linnitt, Kyla Mandel and Brendan DeMelle kick things off with a discussion about corporate spending in Canada and how the oil and…
LEAKED: Internal RCMP Document Names “Violent Anti-Petroleum Extremists” Threat to Government and Industry
Attachment Size RCMP – Criminal Threats to Canadian Petroleum Industry.pdf 1.77 MB An internal Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) document (provided in full below) warns “violent anti-petroleum extremists” driven by…
LEAKED: Internal RCMP Document Names “Violent Anti-Petroleum Extremists” Threat to Government and Industry
An internal Royal Canadian Mounted Policy (RCMP) document (provided in full below) warns “violent anti-petroleum extremists” driven by an “anti-petroleum ideology” pose a criminal threat to Canada’s oil and gas…
MLAs Request B.C. Government Withdraw from Federal Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Review in Legislature
Today members of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia will request the Liberal government pull out of the federal National Energy Board’s (NEB) review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline…