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In the War on Climate Change, the BC Election Was a Bust
In the War on Climate Change, the BC Election Was a Bust But the Sustainabiliteens and other youth committed to radical change will never give up. Youth on strike for the climate in Vancouver, March 2019. Photo by Jackie Dives. For high school students and climate activists like us, British Columbia’s recent election wasn’t just about […]
Pipe Dream: Taxpayer-Owned TMX Is a Bust, Concludes Analyst
Pipe Dream: Taxpayer-Owned TMX Is a Bust, Concludes Analyst Expect no Asian windfall for oilsands crude, says a new report by expert David Hughes. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces cabinet’s approval to greenlight the TMX project on June 18, 2019. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick, the Canadian Press. Remember that 67-year-old pipeline and its controversial bitumen expansion […]
LNG in BC Is a ‘Losing’ Bet, Report Finds
LNG in BC Is a ‘Losing’ Bet, Report Finds New analysis calls out rosy job projections for industry ‘misleading’ and unrealistic. BC’s LNG Canada project under construction earlier this year. Photo by Robin Rowland, the Canadian Press. A respected U.S. energy group has criticized a rosy Conference Board of Canada report championing more liquefied natural gas development […]
Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway
Indigenous Land Rights Action Blocks Northern BC Highway Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en members join day of action to support Ontario nation locked in conflict over development on its traditional territory. About 50 people marched on Highway 16 in New Hazelton as part of a national day of action on Indigenous land rights. Photo by Amanda Follett Hosgood. […]
BC Hydro Bets on Interest Rates — and Loses $1 Billion
BC Hydro Bets on Interest Rates — and Loses $1 Billion A hedging program was supposed to protect the corporation from rising rates. Instead, it’s creating major liabilities. The Peace River was dammed and sent through these diversion tunnels this week to allow work on Site C to continue in the dry riverbed. Photo via BC […]
BC Needs a ‘Wartime Approach’ to the Climate Emergency. And Now
BC Needs a ‘Wartime Approach’ to the Climate Emergency. And Now The urgent response to the pandemic has shown us we can do it. We can’t dither another minute. Wildfire smoke reached Coquitlam, BC last month. Intensifying wildfires are just one indication that we, like the rest of the planet, aren’t doing enough to stop […]
What Are Your ‘Ecological Virtues?’
What Are Your ‘Ecological Virtues?’ For example, are you performing ‘just acts,’ or just performing? A new book of essays invites readers to reflect. ‘If one strives to live a life worthy of the mountain by challenging the systems that threaten its beauty, one must reform one’s internal habitus…’ Photo of Mount Fairweather via Shutterstock. As […]
Misinformation Was Always Dangerous. Social Media Has Turned It into a Viral Sickness
Misinformation Was Always Dangerous. Social Media Has Turned It into a Viral Sickness Facebook’s reach is being used to create division, spread hate and harm democracy. And the corporation doesn’t care. ‘Almost three-billion people now see the world through the personalized and profit-driven filter of social media.’ Photo via Shutterstock. In 1486, a German priest named […]
If Trudeau Suddenly Looks Green, Here’s Why
If Trudeau Suddenly Looks Green, Here’s Why Fossil fuels flagging, the economy demands reinvention. Expect a bold gamble of a throne speech. Prime Minister Trudeau has urged for Canada ‘an economic ecosystem where clean-tech companies can thrive. This is the next great economic frontier.’ Original photo before tinting: Government of Canada. Justin Trudeau’s imminent green gamble, […]
Big Oil’s Backers Are Jumping Ship — and That’s Good for the Planet
Big Oil’s Backers Are Jumping Ship — and That’s Good for the Planet Investors, banks and even some oil and gas companies are breaking ranks on the future of high-emission energy. Alberta’s oilsands are increasingly toxic for major investors concerned with global warming. Photo by Kris Krug, Creative Commons licensed. The oil lobby’s political friends are […]
Evil Geniuses: How the Rich Took Control of America (and Canada)
Evil Geniuses: How the Rich Took Control of America (and Canada) Kurt Andersen looks at the not-so-secret conspiracy by the rich, right and big business. Donald Trump’s presidency is just one result of a 50-year conspiracy to ensure the rich and the right controlled America. Photo: US government. They may have sentenced Leonard Cohen to 20 years […]
The Positive Power of Emergencies
The Positive Power of Emergencies Seth Klein discusses his new book on tackling the climate crisis like we’ve fought wars — and now the pandemic. Called to the new fight. ‘What seemed politically impossible… can be quickly embraced,’ says Seth Klein, author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, which will be published […]
Press Groups Slam Deporting of Danish Journalist Covering Pipeline Fight
Press Groups Slam Deporting of Danish Journalist Covering Pipeline Fight ‘Sobering.’ Foreign and Canadian organizations criticize blocked entry to Kristian Lindhart at YVR. Kristian Lindhart, who works for Denmark’s version of the CBC, wrongly assumed he’d be allowed to continue his ongoing coverage of Indigenous resistance to the TMX pipeline because BC deems journalism an […]
While Fighting the Virus, We Must Fight for Our Rights
While Fighting the Virus, We Must Fight for Our Rights These governments around the world are trying to use the pandemic to smother freedoms. Don’t let democracy sicken and die. ‘The pandemic is killing more than people and economies. It has also come for our freedom.’ Photo via Shutterstock. Twenty-two million human beings have had COVID-19 […]
