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Metro Vancouver air quality comparable to Beijing
Metro Vancouver air quality comparable to Beijing Health authorities advise caution due to smoke from hundreds of wildfires across B.C. Smoke from wildfires in the Interior of British Columbia blankets the Lions Gate Bridge in Vancouver. Health officials in the province have issued air quality warnings as a result of the fires. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) […]
Is ‘holding the course’ putting Canada in recession?
Is ‘holding the course’ putting Canada in recession? Conservatives blame ‘external factors’ for slide, economists say government choosing to let it go Emanuella Enenajor likely caused more than a few politicians to choke on their Stampede pancakes last week. The analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch was the first from a major financial institution to utter the dreaded R-word — recession. […]
Canada Without Poverty charity challenges Harper govt. audits at UN in Geneva
Canada Without Poverty charity challenges Harper govt. audits at UN in Geneva Ottawa anti-poverty charity in Geneva this week arguing before UN that political-activity audits are an abuse The head of a small Ottawa-based charity is in Geneva this week to complain to a United Nations committee about the Canada Revenue Agency’s program of political-activity […]
The Tragedy of Harper’s Canada
The Tragedy of Harper’s Canada Tilting Toward Totalitarianism “This abuse of executive power is tilting toward totalitarian government and away from the foundations of democracy and the rule of law on which this country was founded.” -Errol Mendes, Professor of constitutional and international law (University of Ottawa) The current Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen […]
Meet Canada’s Latest Liberal Man-Boy
Meet Canada’s Latest Liberal Man-Boy Can You Really Trust Justin Trudeau? Here we go again — the Red Book 3.0. Yet another build-up of Liberal election promises just like the ones we’ve seen before (though I admit the one about changing the voting system might be hard to dodge). The most infamous, of course, was […]
Supreme Court Rejects Argument to Dismiss Landmark Fracking Case
Supreme Court Rejects Argument to Dismiss Landmark Fracking Case Jessica Ernst’s charter claim hearing slated for 2016. The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a motion by the country’s most powerful energy regulator that Jessica Ernst’s case involving fracking and groundwater contamination raises no significant constitutional claim and should be dismissed. Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin ruled that […]
Zero Carbon Emissions: The New Language Of Climate Change
Zero Carbon Emissions: The New Language Of Climate Change This is a guest post by David Suzuki. If nothing else, the G7 countries’ recent agreement to end fossil fuel use for energy by 2100 signals a shift in the way we talk and think about global warming. Previous agreements were about reducing carbon emissions from burning coal, […]
Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science
Chicken Little Meet the Friends of Science Canada’s leading climate conspiracy theorists, the Friends of Science, are out this week with a critique on climate change that would make even Chicken Little blush. In a press release issued Thursday, the Friends of Science state that if plans proceed to move our country away from carbon-intensive fuel sources like oil and coal, “Canada […]
Seniors going bankrupt in soaring numbers
Seniors going bankrupt in soaring numbers More Canadians are outliving their savings and spending their golden years in debt Judy Southon never imagined it would come to this. She and her husband Vic had good jobs, raised a son and were homeowners. But after a run of bad luck, the 67-year-old wound up deep in debt and […]
Canada’s Oil Patch Goes Into Convulsions
Canada’s Oil Patch Goes Into Convulsions Alberta, the province that has become the epicenter of Canada’s oil bust, does not yet have a budget for fiscal 2015-16. Premier Rachel Notley promised delivery by October. But it won’t be easy. Ideas are already floating around and are getting shot down. The problem: a budget crisis has […]
Why B.C. may be in for a long, hot summer
Why B.C. may be in for a long, hot summer A dry spring, a warmer than usual Pacific Ocean, and an El Niño means the hot weather could be here to stay Whenever temperatures approach 30 C in Metro Vancouver, it’s a talker. While the thermostat does get close once or twice each summer, this particular heat […]
2-income families nearly doubled from 1976 to 2014
2-income families nearly doubled from 1976 to 2014 As Canadian families change, number of stay-at-home parents plunges, but more of them are dads Families with both parents working are a substantial majority in Canada, with 69 per cent of couples with a child under 16 years of age having two incomes, according to Statistics Canada. […]
TransCanada cuts 185 jobs as it restructures
TransCanada cuts 185 jobs as it restructures Pipeline company eliminates jobs to remain competitive and cut costs Keystone XL proponent TransCanada Corp. has laid off 185 people in its major projects department, most of them in Calgary. The jobs that were cut on Tuesday included about 100 full-time employees while the rest were contract workers. As a pipeline operator, TransCanada has […]
Gas prices ‘way beyond’ where oil rebound should have them: BMO
Gas prices ‘way beyond’ where oil rebound should have them: BMO It’s not just you: Gas prices are much higher than they should be, energy experts say Gas prices are up by more than a third since the start of the year, a figure much higher than one would expect based on the slight rebound in […]
Six Tough Questions about the China Trade Deal
Six Tough Questions about the China Trade Deal Gus Van Harten, author of ‘Sold Down the Yangtze,’ breaks down the FIPA’s impacts. In his new book, Sold Down the Yangtze, trade law expert and Osgoode law professor Gus Van Harten takes apart the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) with China, detailing how he perceives […]
