Alternative media vs the exterminist economy
Climate action involves challenging the petrobloc and its corporate messaging – by Robert Hackett – Canadians are being bombarded through conventional and social media with propaganda for the Trans Mountain…
Ecocide: naming an unspeakable crime
– by Bruce Mason – Calling out the perpetrators of climate change is certainly top-of-mind these days, but when speaking truth to power, it’s best to choose your words most…
Like them or not, we need insects
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki An alarming scientific review has found human activity is driving insects to extinction. When the bottom of the food chain is endangered, so too is…
BC’s LNG industry – flogging a dead horse
— by Eoin Finn — In British Columbia, LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) is an industry on life support. The problem: the public is paying for the treatment. At the height…
Climatology as eschatology
— by Geoff Olson — Eschatology | eskəˈtäləjē | noun: the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind. “Bring…
Climate, hypocrisy and the citizen
— by Bob Hackett — Anyone who’s criticized Big Oil’s political power or advocated for a low-carbon economy has probably heard a familiar rhetorical chestnut: “You hypocrite! You use oil…
The Big Stall – How big oil and think tanks have blocked climate action in Canada
— by Donald Gutstein — Just weeks after Justin Trudeau won the October 2015 federal election, John Manley, head of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, business’s main lobby group,…
Destructive human behaviour at root of orca plight
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki News about orca mother Tahlequah carrying her dead newborn for 17 days through the Salish Sea this summer was heartbreaking, and rightfully captured the world’s…
Decisive climate solutions needed now
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki When our children and grandchildren and those of us still here in 20 years look back to this time, will we say it was when…
Heritage Gardens – a sustainable and environmentally-conscious cemetery in South Surrey
photos: Original location 802 West Broadway, 1918 / Newly opened Heritage Gardens, 2018 My name is Trevor Crean; my father and I are third and fourth-generation funeral directors. In 1908,…