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LNG Project Would Affect ‘Grand Central Station’ for Salmon, Researchers Say
LNG Project Would Affect ‘Grand Central Station’ for Salmon, Researchers Say Science letter asks gov, industry to acknowledge ‘full impacts’ of BC project. The proposed Pacific Northwest LNG project and related pipelines located at the mouth of the Skeena River in northern British Columbia would affect more than 40 different salmon populations harvested in at […]
Oilsands companies feel the pain as Canadian oil price falls
Oilsands companies feel the pain as Canadian oil price falls Alberta companies at break-even point or losing money as heavy crude sinks below $24 US a barrel A drop in Canadian oil prices this week means companies in Alberta’s oilsands are breaking even or losing money on their operations. Currently, oilsands companies are receiving about […]
How Leadnow Will Push Strategic Voting to Defeat Tories
How Leadnow Will Push Strategic Voting to Defeat Tories To avoid splits, organization asks supporters: ‘Vote with your head, not just your heart.’ On the opening afternoon of the Vancouver Folk Festival, a young woman wearing a purple Leadnow T-shirt approached folkies at the event’s main gate and asked them to sign The Pledge. As […]
Spin Cycle: Will all of the oilsands be developed?
Spin Cycle: Will all of the oilsands be developed? Toronto Centre NDP candidate not the only one to suggest some oilsands ‘may have to be left in the ground’ “A lot of the oilsands oil may have to stay in the ground.” — NDP candidate Linda McQuaig on CBC News Network’s Power & Politics Alberta’s oilsands seem to always be […]
How Sustainable Can Cities be When TheyCan’t Even Deal With Their Own Shit?
How Sustainable Can Cities be When TheyCan’t Even Deal With Their Own Shit? A sewage treatment plant in Hamburg, Germany: The shit never looked so pretty (photo by Mark Michaelis) The Dr. Pooper Papers, Issue #3: Just this past week the City of Toronto wasinformed by the Ministry of the Environment that it must now notify the […]
TransCanada quietly plots response as Keystone XL rejection seems imminent
TransCanada quietly plots response as Keystone XL rejection seems imminent Alberta company consulting lawyers on possibly suing U.S. under NAFTA A source involved in Keystone XL said the main suspense now is how Obama will make his big announcement about the pipeline: quietly, in a mid-summer Friday afternoon statement, or boldly from a platform like […]
Syncrude bird deaths, Nexen pipeline spill show oilsands’ degradation of ecosystem: First Nation
Syncrude bird deaths, Nexen pipeline spill show oilsands’ degradation of ecosystem: First Nation ‘Something is seriously wrong,’ says Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation The recent bird deaths at a Syncrude oilsands facility in northern Alberta along with last month’s Nexen Energy pipeline spill — one of the biggest in the province’s history — show the need for better oversight, a local […]
Is Natural Gas As Clean As We Think?
Is Natural Gas As Clean As We Think? This week U.S. President Barack Obama took aim at the American coal industry as part of a comprehensive climate change plan to limit air emissions from what many consider the country’s worst polluter. Under the plan, states will have until 2030 to cut CO2 levels by a third from […]
QE is “Not on the Table,” says Joe Oliver
QE is “Not on the Table,” says Joe Oliver In a world where central banks are given free rein over the supply of money and credit, and where any examination of these secretive institutions is considered interference with their “independence,” Finance Minister Joe Oliver’s comments about QE have not gone unnoticed. The other week Oliver […]
The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Warmongering
The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Warmongering I have spent a few days reading Yves Engler’s book, The Ugly Canadian: Stephen Harper’s Foreign Policy (2012) about the inhumane, cold-hearted and ruthless actions of Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper. This has left me feeling nauseated and ill. Today, sitting in a coffee shop in Vancouver, I looked across the […]
Well-Known Canadian Journalist Visits Ukraine and Praises neo-Nazi
Well-Known Canadian Journalist Visits Ukraine and Praises neo-Nazi One of Canada’s most known journalists was in Ukraine last month on reporting duty. Readers of mainstream media in Canada will be surprised to read Dianne Francis’ observations of her visit. She has penned several articles in the World Post praising the extreme-right and neo-Nazi paramilitary forces that are […]
Stephen Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence
Stephen Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence An omnibus of sins, topping 50. Tell us ones we’ve missed, we’ll add to the PM’s rap sheet. Stephen Harper and his Conservatives have racked up dozens of serious abuses of power since forming government in 2006. From scams to smears, monkey-wrenching opponents to intimidating public servants […]
Toxic algae blooming off West Coast endangering marine life and forcing seafood bans
Toxic algae blooming off West Coast endangering marine life and forcing seafood bans Algae bloom is 64 km wide and 198 metres deep in places A vast bloom of toxic algae off the West Coast is denser, more widespread and deeper than scientists feared even weeks ago, according to surveyors aboard a National Oceanic and […]
Low interest rates prompt savers to borrow to invest
Low interest rates prompt savers to borrow to invest Kevin Stone plans to borrow $20K this year to invest in various stocks Kevin Stone is 28 years old and already has over half a million dollars of debt, including a mortgage and a loan to purchase farmland. But he’s not concerned, because that apparent burden is actually helping fuel his […]
‘Perfect Storm’ Engulfing Canada’s Economy Perfectly Predictable
‘Perfect Storm’ Engulfing Canada’s Economy Perfectly Predictable Years ago Andrew Nikiforuk, citing experts, warned where Stephen Harper’s priorities would lead us. Economists, an irrational tribe of short-sighted mathematicians, are now calling Canada’s declining economic fortunes “a perfect storm.” It seems to be the only weather that complex market economies generate these days, or maybe such […]
