Rafe Mair on cancelling his subscriptions to the Vancouver Sun and Province, following last week’s announcement by Publisher Gordon Fisher of upcoming cost increases to readers: “Mr. Fisher – If…
Calgary’s flood, it seems, is just the latest in a growing frequency of extreme weather events that have been causing havoc nearly everywhere on the planet. While Canadian news was…
Clean tech innovation expert Will Dubitsky charges Stephen Harper’s announcement of EcoEnergy Innovation funding winners last month simply rehashed winners from 2011 and 2012, while the are no monies available…
Clean tech innovation expert Will Dubitsky charges Stephen Harper’s announcement of EcoEnergy Innovation funding winners last month simply rehashed winners from 2011 and 2012, while the are no monies available…
Listen to Damien Gillis and Nanaimo’s CHLY host Rae Kornberger discuss how activism is becoming “extremism” – even terrorism – under the Harper Government’s petro-state regime. Invoking new, secretive anti-terrorism…
The Liberal Government and its private power pals are taking a page out of the neoliberal handbook, which aims to privatize anything of value. Here’s how it works: 1. You…
By failing to work with nature in building our cities, we’ve disrupted hydrological cycles and the valuable services they provide. Protecting and restoring rich forests, flood plains and wetlands near…
It was ten years ago that I was unceremoniously dumped by CKNW, where I had been for 19 years. What does that have to do with an environmental web page?…
Since 2006/09 BC’s domestic electrical demand has mostly “flat-lined” at about 50,000 GWhrs, making liars out of the many at Hydro and elsewhere who forecasted demand closer to 70,000 GWhrs…
According to the Guardian’s Oliver Burkeman, “the most important issues of our era aren’t particularly interesting. Worse than that, there’s good reason to believe in an inverse relationship between interestingness…
Premier Clark promised us huge LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) revenues in a few years. We would be debt free and have $100 BILLION in the to-be-created “Prosperity Fund”. That was…
Gordon Clark in the Province this week called into question the relevance of the NDP and I’d like to add my two bits worth. The Clark government has bet its…
Damien Gillis ties together a number of historical and current BC issues in this talk at the Village of Gitanmaax (Hazelton) in Gitxsan Territory on May 18. From the province’s…
The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), our global first line of defence against farm animal epidemics, just stacked the odds against stopping ISA virus from spreading in British Columbia.…
Despite the many arguments in favour of cycling, increased infrastructure always incites criticism – most of it unwarranted. And the behaviour of some cyclists doesn’t help. Two main criticisms are…
Canada is shooting itself in the foot with the China-Canada trade agreement – the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Act (FIPPA). Specifically, a little known stipulation in the China-Canada trade…
We live in an Information Age so we should be able to adequately inform ourselves, make thoughtful decisions and act on matters of importance. We certainly have enough environmental problems…
On the eve of this weekend’s pivotal BC NDP Provincial Council, former senior staffer Kevin Logan examines the role back room operators played in the party’s recent failed campaign. From…
On the eve of this weekend’s pivotal BC NDP Provincial Council, former senior staffer Kevin Logan examines the role back room operators played in the party’s recent failed campaign. From…
Jessica Ernst, a high-profile, Alberta-based environmental consultant, has released a comprehensive summary of science, facts and documents relating to groundwater contamination from the controversial practice of natural gas hydraulic fracturing…
