Audio: Damien Discusses Common Sense Canadian, Rafe Roast on CJSF
Get MP3 (18 MB) Listen to this short Nov. 19 interview of Damien Gillis on SFU radio’s Latin Waves program, hosted by Sylvia Richardson. The two discuss this week’s Rafe…
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Why Independent Media Needs Your Support – And How You Can Help TheCanadian.org
This, dear friends, is a plea for help. Let me illustrate that with an anecdote. The great American attorney, Clarence Darrow once had a client praise him asking, “How can…
Shades of Green: Pleading Guilty – "By their deeds shall ye know them"
Perspective is an illuminating rarity that can take years to occur. Disparate pieces drift in an incoherent jumble until they begin to coalesce into a understandable pattern. Then clarity reveals…
From Gustafsen Lake to Fish Lake: No Place for Violent Stand-Offs in Era of Youtube and Facebook
Picture this: It’s 2012 and you live half way around the world – let’s say, Sydney, Australia. You open up your Facebook page to find a new viral youtube video…
Canada: Peace, Order, Good Government…and Violence?
A version of this article first appeared on the website of Strategic Culture Foundation, a Russian online paper. Let me explain the title to this article. Canada’s overriding mission, according…
Obama’s Keystsone XL Reversal: Could the Tide Slowly be Turning Against Dirty Oil?
Editor's Note: We are pleased to welcome Ottawa-based environmental journalist and educator Mark Brooks to our team of Common Sense contributors. A former analyst for the Government of Canada and…
Rafe on Supporting the Common Sense Canadian – Plus Our New Op-ed Blog
The Common Sense Canadian has been going well over the past year-plus and this seems to be a good moment to reflect on what we’ve done, not done, and will…
Video: Kevin Bacon Lends Voice to Battle to Save Great Bear Rainforest From Enbridge
Check out this new video from the Natural Resources Defense Council - narrated by Hollywood actor Kevin Bacon - on the battle to protect BC's iconic Spirit Bear and its…
Why Culture Matters: Prosperity Mine’s Impacts on the People and Land of the Nemaiah Valley
Editor's Note: In the wake of two major developments regarding the highly controversial proposed Prosperity Mine - the Harper Government's decision to provide Taseko Mines a new environmental review for…
Shades of Green: ISAv – Threat, Fear, Mystery and Warning
The recent news that the European strain of Infectious Salmon Anemia virus had been found in two Rivers Inlet sockeye smolts sent a shiver of fear throughout the North Pacific…
Tsilhqot’in Nation Goes to Court Over BC Govt’s Exploration Approvals for Prosperity Mine
The Tsilhqot’in Nation is firing back at the BC Government with legal action following the confirmation this past Friday that the Province has issued permits to Taseko Mines for work…
Video: Whose Economy? Choosing Port Expansion Over Food Security
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 -…
Video: Whose Economy? Choosing Port Expansion Over Food Security
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 -…
Energy Minister Lied About Consulting Public on Frack Water Pipeline
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…
Cartoon: ISAv Salmon
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…
Shades of Green: The Drug War and Free-Market Capitalism
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…
Audio: Rafe & Damien Discuss Rafe’s 80th, Hydro Accounting on CHLY
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 -…
Oil, Cancer & Bicycles: The Unholy Alliance of The BC Cancer Foundation and Enbridge
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…
A Tale of Two BC Mining Fiascos
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…
Shades of Green: The Arrival of Infectious Salmon Anemia Virus
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…