Remembering Gwen Barlee
Activist, ally, mentor, leader, friend The Wilderness Committee is deeply saddened by the passing of Gwen Barlee on June 21, 2017. As one of Canada’s leading environmental advocates, Barlee worked as...
View ArticleReflections of Canada – now that the party’s over
by Bruce Mason It’s been 150 years since the old province of Canada was carved up into Quebec and Ontario and joined by the hip to Nova Scotia and New Brunswick in Confederation. We’re spending a cool...
View ArticleOur lieutenant governor’s “Three Rs”
by Bruce Mason Photo: 2017 Canada Day Citizenship Ceremony at Government House, in which Her Honour presided over the swearing-in of 150 new citizens. Photo by Rachel Rilkoff of Government House. For a...
View ArticleShining bright in darker times
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki Are we entering a new Dark Age? Lately, it seems so. News reports are enough to make anyone want to crawl into bed and hide under the covers. But it’s time to rise and...
View ArticleMayday! This is Spaceship Earth
Houston, we have a problem. by Bruce Mason It was a summer of fire, smoke and hard rain. Of nightmarish hurricanes and awakened dead reckoning. All connected and predictable, in fact, meticulously...
View ArticleEnvironmentalism a way of being
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki I’m often introduced as an environmentalist. I prefer to be called a father, grandfather, scientist or author, as these terms provide insight into my motivation....
View ArticleThe figures on the Site C dam that count: why our electricity rates will...
photo: view of Peace River which would have been flooded by Site C Dam courtesy www.peacevalley.ca/future. Photo by Don Hoffmann and Andrea Morison by Reimar Kroecher Estimated cost of building Site C...
View ArticleICAN 2017 Nobel Peace Prize winners
photo: Prize winners International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) holds press conference at UN Headquarters, led by Beatrice Fihn (centre), Executive Director of ICAN. UN Photo/Eskinder...
View ArticleWhy approving Site C could sink NDP
by Damien Gillis cabin photo: Diane Perry It’s getting down to the wire for the NDP-led government to announce its decision on Site C Dam. The corporate media and some big guns for labour have been...
View ArticleScience betrayed: the crime of denial
by Elizabeth Woodworth and Dr. Peter Carter Climate change denial has been led by industry disinformation, which, according to Merriam-Webster, is “false information deliberately and often covertly...
View ArticleFrom revolving door to revolution in the patch: an interview with Kevin Taft
by Jeremy Appel Why are ostensibly environmentally friendly governments, like the federal Liberals and Alberta NDP, still so attached to oil sands extraction, with its disproportionate impact on carbon...
View ArticleCharging ahead with car sharing
Photo: Modo CEO Patrick Nangle at the wheel of a Rav4 hybrid. Image courtesy Modo. Vancouver leads North America with about 3,000 shared vehicles. Now, if it could just electrify the fleet. by Robert...
View ArticleThe real message in the bottle
Break the silence – plastic is poison by Bruce Mason Nothing is forever, except maybe plastic. And despite the well-funded, deliberate, universal misconception, it’s anything but disposable. Virtually...
View ArticleGovernment reaping royalties from GM Atlantic salmon
The Canadian government is receiving 10% royalties from sales of the world’s first genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) animal, a GM Atlantic salmon. “We’re concerned that the government...
View ArticleDirectly Affected: Pipeline Under Pressure
photo by Alex Harris a film director is arrested by Zack Embree Five years ago, I set out on a mission along with my co-director Devyn Brugge: to understand the impacts of the Kinder Morgan pipeline on...
View ArticleZero carbon or bust
The oil and gas sector is our most polluting industry by Peter McCartney Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley have put together a climate plan that phases out coal power and...
View ArticleJohn Horgan’s $6 billion LNG giveaway
A bad deal for BC by Eoin Finn B.Sc., Ph.D., MBA The announcement – on World Water Day – that the NDP Government is to enact regulations and legislation to “make BC LNG competitive” caught many by...
View ArticleVideo – We Don’t Want Your Pipeline
We Don’t Want Your Pipeline is Bob Bossin’s musical response to the Kinder Morgan pipeline. The musicians on the live stage recording are Marie-Lynn Hammond, Keith Bennett, Ben Mink, Calvin Cairns,...
View ArticleAn open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
I remember following your election victory in the early hours of October 20th, 2015 while on vacation halfway around the world. I was hopeful your leadership would be an improvement compared to another...
View ArticleWhistleblowers reveal rigged approval
Pipeline opponents demand all-party investigation Indigenous leaders, conservation organizations and community groups are calling for an all-party investigation into the federal approval for Kinder...
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