This week in Ottawa, NDP MP for New Westminster-Coquitlam-Port Moody Fin Donnelly reintroduced two private members bills he authored last year. The first calls for a legislated ban on oil…
At a recent event in Vancouver, the Wilderness Committee's Joe Foy picked apart the BC Liberal Government's faulty case for Site C Dam - discussing better alternatives to power our…
If a healthy biological ecology provides for the well-being of its plants and animals, then a healthy human ecology should provide for the well-being of its constituent members. But human…
This will be harsh, I warn you. In preparation I urge you to read Dr. Marvin Shaffer’s (SFU) article in the Vancouver Sun last Monday. My position today is that…
This will be harsh, I warn you. In preparation I urge you to read Dr. Marvin Shaffer’s (SFU) article in the Vancouver Sun last Monday. My position today is that…
Get MP3 (53 MB)Listen to Damien Gillis' June 8 appearance on CHLY Nanaimo's "Sense of Justice". Damien and host Rae Kornberger discuss the Christy Clark Liberals and how the NDP…
The proposal to privatize the water services in my community seemed to hit us from behind - it was negotiated for over a year in secret and sprung on us…
I received an email recently saying I was too old and should begone – not his precise words but that was the gist of what he said. And I suppose…
The controversial proposal for an a coal mine in Vancouver Island's Baynes Sound - home to a thriving shellfish industry - saw large crowds turn out to voice their opposition…
The realization that we might be partly responsible for the recent spate of destructive weather is difficult to accept because it requires us to change the image of ourselves from…
I favour civil disobedience if it’s done responsibly and for good reasons. Civil disobedience was practiced by Jesus; more recently Henry David Thoreau, the 19th Century American philosopher, is seen…
Under the current government, the BC Legislature seems to have become a necessary evil to be used sparingly or otherwise avoided.In the Liberals first term, Premier Campbell introduced a sweeping…
What does Port Alberni have in common with Fukushima, Japan - besides a love for fish? Two things, potentially. First, according to experts from Emergency Management BC, Port Alberni is…
We at the Common Sense Canadian will be dealing with the Site C project in some depth and from the outset we would like to acknowledge the tremendous work and…
I’m astonished and hugely flattered to learn that a long time listener and reader of my stuff, Gavin Bamber, has nominated three of my books for recognition as the top…
Doubt is the foundation of all science. Every scientific principle and theory, no matter how established and trusted, contains the acknowledged possibility of error. This is the way science works.…
A proposal from Mainstream Canada - the local subsidiary of Norwegian aquaculture giant Cermaq - for a new 56-hectare open net pen salmon farm in Clayoquot Sound threatens the UNESCO…
Awhile back I did a piece on nuclear energy and you would have thought I was in favour of hanging petty thieves (that theory belongs to the Harper Conservatives). I…
The scientific community has been in a state of constrained panic during the last couple of years as the binding terms of the Kyoto Protocol approach expiry, as a replacement…
I have been in politics or commenting on them (same thing) back to the days of WAC Bennett. My first published piece was a criticism of Bennett’s position on the…
