At a recent Nature Vancouver event, Damien Gillis discussed the proposed doubling of Deltaport and conversion of prime farmland, fish and wildlife habitat into an industrialized Foreign Trade Zone -…
At a recent Nature Vancouver event, Damien Gillis discussed the proposed doubling of Deltaport and conversion of prime farmland, fish and wildlife habitat into an industrialized Foreign Trade Zone -…
Did BC Energy Minister Rich Coleman outright lie in the Legislature when he promised public consultation for a massive new pipeline to draw billions of litres of water from BC's…
Check out this new cartoon from Gerry Hummel. In recent weeks British Columbians and concerned media and citizens around the world have been rocked by the revelation that multiple species…
Ciudad Juarez, a city on Mexico's border with the US state of Texas, is described by Ed Vulliamy as "the most murderous city in the world" (Guardian Weekly , July…
Get MP3 (57 MB) Listen to Rafe and Damien's recent appearance on CHLY's "A Sense of Justice". The two discuss a wide variety of topics with host Rae Kornberger -…
The high-profile sponsorship of a BC cancer research charity event by the world's biggest oil pipeline builder raises serious questions about the ethics of fundraising - and threatens to backfire…
There are two mining stories out of last week in Lotusland.For openers, let’s deal with “Prosperity” lake which, before the corporate flacks got involved, was called Fish Lake. The short…
PEI's Atlantic Veterinary College - cited as the reference lab for Infectious Salmon Anemia - has confirmed that the virus has officially arrived in BC's West Coast waters. Critics of…
This month (October 2011) The Auditor General of British Columbia presented his report to Government titled “BC Hydro: The Effects of Rate-Regulated Accounting”. For most folks this is not be…
There are two stories about pipelines this week – the first was a Vancouver Sun article October 25. Here it is, in part:Sixteen business and labour leaders have signed an…
We’ve known it all along, but at last we hear it out loud. Robin Silvester, the President and CEO of Port Metro Vancouver, has stated that:“Agriculture is emotionally important, but…
Ever get the feeling that our environmental problems are just too big to solve? Ever cringe when hearing of another "unprecedented weather event", when reading of another species on the…
How about a bit of totally nonsensical speculation of the order of “Hitler is alive and well living in Argentina”. Something utterly absurd. I bring to this speculation a very…
See those two dots – one says corporate decency (underneath it says “good corporate citizen”). The other dot says democracy, the rule of law and responsive government. These two dots…
In the wake of the discovery of catastrophic Infectious Salmon Anemia in wild Pacific sockeye this week, The Common Sense Canadian revisits Damien Gillis' 2009 photo essay documenting how the…
Two items came across my desk yesterday that, taken together, illustrate just how embarrassingly backward our BC Liberal government is when it comes to matters of the environment. One was…
On the eve of municipal elections, Delta Council has unanimously voted to begin amending its Official Community Plan, paving the way for a highly controversial housing development by Century Group…
Here is the story from salmon biologist Alexandra Morton: Infectious Salmon Anemia virus has been found in two young sockeye salmon. Sheer reckless, negligent behaviour has loosed a highly infectious…
This article was originally published in the Alaska Highway News.Dave Cobb is president and CEO of BC Hydro. In August, he confirmed what Hydro watchers have been saying for some…
