Lectures: Shape Your Destiny
Chinmaya Mission Vancouver presents “Shape Your Destiny” Lectures by Swami Swaroopananda Global Head, Chinmaya Mission July 13th – 15th evenings 7:30 – 9 pm Unity … Read more
Month: June 2018
How Trudeau’s lies differ from Trump’s lies
by Paul George While Trump is a compulsive liar, Trudeau is a consummate actor. Trump sometimes knows he’s lying. At other times he doesn’t know … Read more
The hidden carbon cost of everyday products
by Kai Whiting and Luis Gabriel Carmona The targets set in the Paris Agreement on climate change are ambitious, but necessary. Failure to meet them … Read more
Blackmail and bailouts in the Kinder Morgan pipeline saga
by Thomas Davies | photo by Jake Wright You couldn’t blame someone for checking, but it was a week late for April Fool’s Day when … Read more
Urgent and practical climate action
Climate change is re-focusing the duty of professional engineers and geoscientists by Bruce Mason It is the fundamental duty of engineers and geoscientists to refuse … Read more
Democracy versus party discipline
The 2014 Reform Act was an important first step toward restoring representative government by Kennedy Stewart The Crushing Power of Canadian Political Parties Canadian political … Read more
Canada Infrastructure Bank a Trojan horse
by Joyce Nelson World’s Biggest Investor According to The Economist (Dec. 7, 2013), this company (that nobody has heard of) turns out to be the … Read more
Tell me lies, lies, crude little lies
by Eoin Finn In the wake of the Federal Government’s phenomenal decision this week to purchase a 65-year-old leaky oil pipeline and the unbuilt TMX … Read more
How climate change is increasing forest fires around the world
by Anne-Sophie Brändlin Have wildfires increased globally over recent years? And if so, is global warming to blame? Research has illuminated this, along with what … Read more
Big Three’s “low cost” data plans are a bad joke
INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Marie Aspiazu Back in March, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) closed the doors on Wi-Fi based Mobile Virtual Network Operators … Read more