Cartoon: Murphy’s War
Check out this new cartoon from Gerry Hummel. Province cartoonist Dan Murphy set off a firestorm recently with his video spoof on Enbridge’s slick, new ad – designed to allay…
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If I was a BC Tory Under Harper, I’d Resign
I have received a lot of feedback on my recent blog on John Weston, MP. Let me say that this was directed to Weston because he is my MP and…
Harper Wasting No Time Slashing DFO Habitat Jobs as Notices go out to Staff
According to Otto Langer, the former senior DFO scientist and manager who first blew the whistle on Stephen Harper’s plan to gut the Fisheries Act, the job cuts associated with…
Grinding Nemo: New Video Exposes Unsustainable Fish Meal for Thai Prawns, Farmed Salmon
Watch this new 6 min video from the Swedish Society of Nature Conservation, exposing in graphic detail the unsustainable methods of producing fish meal for both the Thai tiger prawn…
Japan Torpedoes South Atlantic Whale Sancruary on Day 1 of IWC Meeting in Panama
Renowned BC-based whale expert Dr. Paul Spong reports on Day 1 of the 65th annual International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting, taking place this week in Panama. “This morning, the ambition…
Rafe Takes his MP John Weston to Task on Pipelines, Tankers, Fish Habitat
Dr. John Weston, MP: Didn’t we send you to Ottawa to represent us and work on our behalf? Don’t we have the right to expect you to fight our battles…
Everest Ascent
Ray Grigg discusses veteran Everest climber Ralf Dujmovits’ reflections on the transformation of his beloved mountain into a major tourist destination. “’The jams of people…led to hours of waiting around…
Premier Clark Gave Away BC’s Seat at the Table for Enbridge Review
The Joint Review Panel is examining the proposed Enbridge Pipeline and the province of BC, unlike the province of Alberta, will not be at the table as a Government Participant.…
Enbridge’s Attempt to Kill Spoof Backfires as Censored Cartoonist Goes Public
Province newspaper cartoonist Dan Murphy went public on CBC yesterday to confirm suspicions that his publication had pulled a spoof he created last Friday, under pressure from Enbridge Inc…The fallout…
Province Newspaper Pulled Cartoon Under Pressure from Enbridge
Pasted hereon is one of the funniest clips I have ever seen. It’s a spoof of an Enbridge pipeline video ad by Vancouver Province cartoonist, Dan Murphy. It’s brilliant and…
BC Hydro’s $30 Billion Blind Gamble
Sandra Hoffman, Ph.D, and economist Erik Andersen expose BC Hydro’s planned $30 Billion spending binge on new capital, without the market-based evidence to support it. “BC Hydro has a well-documented…
Carbon 400 and How Denmark Became and Emissions Cutting Success
Denmark is thought of as the “wind technology capital of the world”. Indeed, it may be. But its thousands of huge turbines produce only 20 percent of its power. The…
BC Conservative MPs Who Abandoned Our Wild Salmon May Find Voters Abandoning Them
Note well the names that follow, for they are British Columbia MPs who voted for the final destruction of the Pacific Salmon, the sea going Rainbow trout (Steelhead), river resident…
Feds Scrap Bute Inlet Private Power Project’s Environmental Assessment
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency announced earlier this week that it is terminating the environmental assessment of the massive proposed Bute Inlet private river diversion project. “Given that the proponent…
More BS than Bitumen Flowing From Alberta After Third Recent Spill
A story in yesterday’s Edmonton Journal on the latest pipeline spill in Alberta was more full of crap than Alberta’s farms and rivers are full of oil these days. This…
Deconstructing Dinner: BC Food Broadcaster Launches Fundraising Campaign for New Series
Jon Steinman, host for five years of the popular “Deconstructing Dinner” radio program, launches a crowd-funding campaign to support his forthcoming video program by the same name. Steinman and his…
Dear Mr. Dix: A Letter From Rafe Mair to BC’s Future Premier
The recent polls show that you and your party have a wide lead over the Liberals and Conservatives – something which gives many of us who care deeply about the…
The Profiligate BC Hydro
BC Hydro used 67 per cent more capital to produce and deliver 5 per cent less electricity when it is normal to gain efficiencies from new investments, not lose them.…
Reflections on the Maypole of Spring
something sacred pulses in the bodies of the dancing children as their ribbons wind and unwind around the Maypole, as their feet so playfully touch, leave and then return to…
Plains Midstream Disaster Should be Wake-Up Call Re: Enbridge Proposal
I had this blood rush to my head the other morning morning when I read the Globe and Mail’s article on the Plains Midstream oil line burst into the Red…