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33 ways you’re being tracked online
by @iamdylancurran Images by Anthony Freda Want to freak yourself out? Consider how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realizing…
Vancouver: the day the media died
Will legacy media survive obvious false equivalency? by Bruce Mason Blip. Blip. Mainly comatose for ages, that’s the sound of mainstream media in the Lower Mainland. A weak, worrisome flat-line…
John Horgan’s $6 billion LNG giveaway
A bad deal for BC by Eoin Finn B.Sc., Ph.D., MBA The announcement – on World Water Day – that the NDP Government is to enact regulations and legislation to…
Money, power, control and democracy
How money controls democracy and blocks electoral reform by Jeff and Diana Jewell In Canada, we’re told we have democracy. But do we? Lincoln defined democracy as “government of the…
Zero carbon or bust
The oil and gas sector is our most polluting industry by Peter McCartney Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Alberta Premier Rachel Notley have put together a climate plan that phases…
Directly Affected: Pipeline Under Pressure
photo by Alex Harris a film director is arrested by Zack Embree Five years ago, I set out on a mission along with my co-director Devyn Brugge: to understand the…
Government reaping royalties from GM Atlantic salmon
The Canadian government is receiving 10% royalties from sales of the world’s first genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) animal, a GM Atlantic salmon. “We’re concerned that the government is…
The real message in the bottle
Break the silence – plastic is poison by Bruce Mason Nothing is forever, except maybe plastic. And despite the well-funded, deliberate, universal misconception, it’s anything but disposable. Virtually every one…
First-past-the-post system vulnerable
Cambridge Analytica targets voters to influence election outcomes Revelations late last month about Cambridge Analytica’s use of psychographic targeting to influence elections should be of special concern to Canadians because…