by David Suzuki on Wednesday Nov 20 2019
Oceans hold a lot of mystery, even for people who study them. But it’s no mystery why they’re in trouble. We’ve been using them to hide our waste — dumping oil, plastic, toxic chemicals, radioactive sludge, sewage and fishing gear into them for decades. Oceans also absorb much of the atmospheric heat from our indiscriminate fossil fuel...
by The Conversation on Wednesday Nov 20 2019
By Samantha Brennan, in The Conversation
As women started counting steps and walking to work wearing running shoes and fitness trackers, there was one work-related item that had to change: the briefcase. It’s not suited to walking fast and gets in the way of drinking coffee en route to the office. Enter the working women’s backpack....
by Timothy Schafer on Sunday Nov 17 2019
Railtown is back on track for development as the city looks to make further progress on the promise of 2018 when it revealed a plan for the neighbourhhod.
Several new bylaws are in the process of being changed and amended — with a public meeting to be scheduled — by the city to help facilitate and add to the finer points laid out in the Sustainable Neighbourhood Action Plan...
by Contributor on Thursday Nov 14 2019
The Province will restrict vapour product access, flavours, nicotine content, packaging and advertising, and intends to increase taxes on vapour products, to protect youth from risks associated with vaping.
“Some vaping manufacturers are using flavours and advertising to entice and normalize vaping for youth – introducing a new generation to very high levels of a very...
by The Fraser Institute on Thursday Nov 14 2019
Texas is more than two times as attractive than Alberta for oil and gas investment, according to a new survey of petroleum-sector executives released today by the Fraser Institute, an independent, non-partisan, Canadian public policy think-tank.
“Canada’s onerous and uncertain regulations, along with our dearth of pipeline capacity has created a competitiveness chasm between Canada and...
by The Narwhal on Wednesday Nov 13 2019
Although the amount of natural gas fracked in the northeast corner of the province has increased by 70 per cent over the last decade, British Columbia is increasingly out of pocket when it comes to collecting on this industry's resource royalties, according to newly released data
By Judith Lavoie, for The Narwhal
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by David Suzuki on Wednesday Nov 13 2019
The climate and ecological crises touch each of us to varying degrees. Some carry the emotional weight of worrying about what kind of diminished, unstable world we’re leaving for our children while others are directly, physically affected by climate-fuelled disasters like storms, wildfires, droughts and changing wildlife patterns.
Our responses to these crises also vary. Most people...
by The Conversation on Wednesday Nov 06 2019
By Paloma Raggo, for The Conversation
Whistleblowers put their careers, and sometimes their safety, on the line to protect democratic ideals and the public interest.
Canada, like its southern neighbour, is not immune to whistleblowing controversies at the...
by Contributor on Thursday Oct 31 2019
The Province has introduced the interpretation amendment act to allow for a future move to permanent daylight saving time (DST) after 93% of British Columbian respondents indicated support for the change in a record-breaking public engagement.
“British Columbians have said loud and clear that they want to do away with the practice of changing our clocks twice a year and our government...
by Sara Golling on Wednesday Oct 30 2019
Politics. Election campaigns. Lies. Is anyone else out there infuriated by how closely those three things are linked? Why should politicians have some sort of 007-like “License to Lie”? I say they shouldn’t.
In Canada, people are given some protection against false or misleading advertising. There’s the...
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