by David Suzuki on Wednesday Jul 19 2017
Of all the plastic products we use and take for granted, plastic drinking straws are among the most unnecessary. Designed to be used once and discarded, their only real purpose is to keep your mouth from touching a glass or ice. It made more sense in the days when contaminated vessels were more of an issue.
Now, there’s a movement to get people and businesses to ditch the straws. It may...
by Sara Golling on Tuesday Jul 18 2017
While four of six Tsilhqot’in communities are evacuated due to raging wildfires surrounding their communities, Christy Clark's outgoing Liberal government has granted permits to Taseko Mines to conduct extensive pre-construction exploration and drilling for the New Prosperity mine proposal in a place precious to the Tsilhqot'in Nation. Never mind that the federal government has twice nixed...
by Sara Golling on Monday Jul 17 2017
The headline above notwithstanding, people who suffer sexual assault in our region have many resources and many enlightened people available to help with all aspects of the ordeal and its aftermath. Trail FAIR is there to help, and Victims' Assistance. And I have no reason to believe that this region's RCMP personnel are anything but well-informed, responsive, up-to-date, and compassionate...
by Sara Golling on Monday Jul 17 2017
It's summertime. We're all on holiday, right? Who wants to think about stuff like governance at this time of year? On the other hand, can we afford to stop thinking about it, given how things are at the highest levels of Canadian politics?
I say we need a fundamental change in the dynamics of Parliament, and that electoral reform can help.
Look at our Parliament in action:...
by Dermod Travis on Thursday Jul 13 2017
Houston, we have a consensus. Well, almost.
All three parties in the B.C. legislature now support a ban on corporate and union donations, as well as setting a cap on personal contributions.
It's that last one that gets tricky. What's the right cap?
Perhaps B.C.'s new government should rip a page out of Alberta's NDP playbook.
Legislate all points of agreement this...
by Murray Dobbin on Friday Jul 07 2017
The trouble with demonizing the leader of an unpopular government is that it gives the next leader way too much slack. I remember writing a column years ago comparing the hated Brian Mulroney with Paul Martin (who more or less ran Jean Chretien's government). Who was more destructive to the public interest and progressive government? Conventional wisdom would say Mulroney. But, while Mulroney'...
by Contributor on Thursday Jun 22 2017
By Carol Linnett. This article is from DeSmog Canada.
While news of Saskatchewan’s plan for a small geothermal power plant was met with excitement by renewable energy advocates...
by Dick Cannings MP on Wednesday May 31 2017
Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of taking in Trail Silver City Days festivities: the pageant, the parade, and more. The people of Trail proudly celebrated their history that weekend, and that history has a distinctly Italian flavour, with a spaghetti-eating contest, grape stomp, and bocce tournament.
The local Italian community has had a truly national impact. Two of the big players...
by David Suzuki on Wednesday May 31 2017
The notion that we must conquer or dominate nature has governed human behaviour for a relatively short period of our 150,000-year history on this 4.5-billion-year-old planet. It’s an understandable impulse. Our intelligence and foresight allowed us to develop complex societies, and gave us a sense of control over our existence in the face of powerful, often threatening natural forces.
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by Contributor on Wednesday May 24 2017
By Judith Lavoie. This article is from DeSmog Canada.
A plan to form a new, independent wildlife management agency in B.C., which would relieve the provincial government from managing contentious wildlife issues such as grizzly, wolf and caribou populations, is generating anxiety among some conservation groups who fear the structure of the...
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