In an open letter, 300 scholars poke holes in the Joint Review Panel’s recommendation of the proposed Enbridge pipeline, urging PM Stephen Harper to reject its final report. May 26,…
Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak (Photo: Facebook) Finally, a mainstream media story that puts some of the extraordinary job claims made on the campaign trail under a microscope. Read this…
Chief Bob Chamberlin is one of many First Nations leaders frustrated with the lack of action of saving wild salmon Read this May 28 Globe and Mail story by Mark…
Former Agriculture Minister Pat Pimm is drawing fire for racist comments about First Nations Read this May 28 Globe and Mail story by Justine Hunter and Mark Hume on a…
Lisa and Bob Parr (Photo: Wise County Messenger / Joe Duty) Read this April 23 story from the LA Times on the groundbreaking award of nearly $3 million in damages…
Ten years ago, The Corporation, a seminal Canadian documentary, changed the way the world thinks about the nature and role of corporations in society. It would later influence movements like…
Are you concerned about the impacts of fracking and liquified fracked gas (also know as liquefied natural gas or LNG) export? Join us for a night of powerful speakers from…
Artist’s rendering of proposed Woodfibre LNG terminal in Howe Sound, BC Read this May 13 story by the Squamish Chief on today’s announcement by the proponents of the local Woodfibre…
The multi-billion-dollar proposed Site C Dam (artist’s rendering) Read this May 9 Vancouver Sun column by Vaughn Palmer on the ways in which the obsessive fixation of BC Hydro and…
Sundance Chief Rueben George of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation (Damien Gillis) Read this May 2 story from the Georgia Straight on the legal action launched by the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation regarding…
The Agua Caliente solar power array, near Phoenix, Arizona Read this May 9 syory from Scientific American on the world’s largest solar power array, in Arizona, which is about to…
Former BC Environment Minister Corky Evans (Photo: RichardHughes.ca) An Open Letter to Almost Everybody: My name is Corky Evans. I garden and farm in the Kootenays of B.C. Many years…
Photo: Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press Read this April 24 story from The National Post and Bloomberg News on the effect of US President Barack Obama’s waffling on the proposed Keystone XL…
(Photo: Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals) Read this Apr. 16th article in the Vancouver Sun about the Conservatives unethical effort to expand BC fish farming by temporarily exempting the Fisheries…
Council chambers were overflowing with incinerator opponents last night (Photo: Trish Kuziek/Facebook) Read this April 15 story from the Nanaimo Daily News on city council’s unanimous rejection of a proposed…
By Andrew Gage You may have heard about controversial amendments to the Park Act by way of Bill 4, the Park Amendment Act, which critics say are to allow industrial…
Gibsons Recycling Depot owners Barb Hetherington and Buddy Boyd Read this April 11 story from the Coast Reporter on the growing controversy surrounding new waste management plans – including a…
Read this April 11 story by Stephen Hui in The Georgia Straight about BC NDP leadership candidate John Horgan’s vow to repeal the controversial Bill 4, which opened BC’s parks…
John Twigg interviews award-winning energy journalist and author Andrew Nikiforuk on his latest book, The Energy of Slaves. “The era of cheap hydrocarbons is gone,” says Nikiforuk. We’re now into…
Read this April 10 story from iPolitics, reporting that former Canadian Finance Minster Jim Flaherty is dead at the age of 64. Former finance minister Jim Flaherty died Thursday morning.…
