Beyond Meat Burgers Are A Fraud
The junk food industry has a new product they are offering in exchange for your health and finances. Using strategies to position it as a healthy alternative for natural meat,…
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Our Kids Are Starting a Climate Revolution. Let’s Join Them Before It’s Too Late
The September 20 to 27 worldwide climate week is a dream-come-true, a fairytale of sorts, a week which is tailor-made for climate activists. Just a year ago, who could…
Trudeau should keep Greta Thunberg’s name out of his mouth
Justin Trudeau held a press conference Tuesday morning in Burnaby, B.C., calling climate change “our great global challenge.” As he touted the Liberals’ commitment to a green energy transition, slammed…
October 1st-Racetrack Rezoning: What You Need to Know
Racetrack Rezoning: What You Need to Know The Vancouver Island Motorsport Circuit (VIMC) has submitted an application to rezone 100 acres of forested land to allow for expansion of their…
Very, Very, Very, Very, Very Generous
Calls for a clean energy transition, resounding in political conversations and street demonstrations around the globe right now, are a clear response to the growing climate emergency. But they can…
What to Read When the World is On Fire
What to Read When the World is On Fire The new wave of climate change writing BY ARNO KOPECKY ILLUSTRATION BY MARIA NGUYEN Updated 11:23, Sep. 24, 2019 | Published…
Grand Opening of the Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society’s 30th anniversary Viewing Tower
You are invited to the Grand Opening of the Somenos Marsh Wildlife Society’s 30th anniversary Viewing Tower at the S’amuna’/Somenos Open Air Classroom 6043 Trans-Canada Highway, north of Duncan, BC…
Even before #brownface, the 2019 federal election was always about race
By Fatima Syed in Analysis, Politics Election 2019 NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in Ottawa on Oct. 17, 2017. Photo by Alex Tétreault If you have been paying close attention to…
WildWings Festival takes flight in October in Cowichan Valley
By Larry Pynn The 10th annual WildWings Nature & Arts Festival is just around the corner, offering unique opportunities to learn about the nature around us as well as the…
Mike Smyth: As Trudeau stumbles, the fight is on in Vancouver-Granville
Former federal justice minister and current Independent MP Jody Wilson-Raybould embraces supporters after a rally in Vancouver on Sept. 18. JENNIFER GAUTHIER / REUTERS Michael Smyth Justin Trudeau’s personal campaign…
Well, that got everybody’s attention
And this is why we have campaigns. Team Trudeau might have started Wednesday thinking the most damaging thing to Justin Trudeau’s brand that day would be the lack of transparency…
‘NO FUTURE, NO CHILDREN’ UNTIL GOVERNMENTS ADDRESS CLIMATE CRISIS, CANADIAN YOUTH DECLARE
Climate Strike Canada/Facebook A group of more than 450 youth, most of them Canadian, are declaring they won’t have children until they see the federal government taking sufficient action…
‘What happened to The Sun?’ asks a staffer’s widely circulated internal email.
Snapshot of a Postmedia staffer’s email to Sun and Province editor-in-chief Harold Munro circulated widely among colleagues at the newspaper. David Beers 13 Sep 2019 | TheTyee.ca David Beers…
RCMP official’s arrest sparks broad review by federal departments involved in national security
Details not revealed as the issue is before the courts. ROBERT FIFE OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF KRISTY KIRKUP PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS REPORTER PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 All government departments involved in…
How the Green Party Came to Support Dumping Raw Sewage into the Ocean.
Doing Politics Differently? By Mark Christopher Warrior In 2012 the “Harper Government” announced it was prepared to fund one third of the cost of building Victoria’s first sewage plant and…
Andrew Scheer’s Filter Needs A Maintenance Recall
Andrew Scheer’s Indigenous ‘hostage’ comment provokes tongue-lashing at first election debate By Carl Meyer, Stephanie Wood, Emma McIntosh & Fatima Syed in News, Politics | September 12th 2019 “Hold hostage.”…
National Leaders Debate 2019: Full replay | Maclean’s and Citytv
POLITICS National Leaders Debate 2019: Full replay | Maclean’s and Citytv Paul Wells moderated the first debate of the election calendar. Watch a full replay here by Maclean’s The campaign…
The Greens’ election chances are being torpedoed – by the Greens Gary Mason
GARY MASON NATIONAL AFFAIRS COLUMNIST Green Party Leader Elizabeth May kicked off her party’s election campaign promising supporters she will guide the ship of state toward a safe harbour. But…
BC NDP’s Schizophrenic Version Of Reconciliation
Malahat Nation slams premier on Shawnigan Lake dump plan Rob Shaw More from Rob Shaw The Malahat Nation says it was not consulted about government’s closure plan for the contaminated…