Dump First Past the Post and build a true and fair voting system
by Joseph Roberts Why are lobbyist’s like Bill Tielman, Susan Anton, Bill Good and others pimping for First Past The Post’s old colonial voting system? Why do they, and billionaires…
Is the Kinder Morgan pipeline safe for you and your family?
你和你的家人能否安全？
你的居所和食物又如何？
by Citizens for the Salish Sea
(English version follows)
你半夜醒來，四周籠罩了臭味濃烈的易燃氣體；毒氣令你頭痛，喉乾舌燥，咳嗽不止，孩子更感到噁心及嘔吐。你收聴緊急廣播，原來有運油船在溫哥華港口漏油起火，而這些油是劇毒致癌的稀釋瀝青！
Squeezing the carbon bubble
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki The carbon bubble will burst with or without government action, according to a new study. That will hurt people who invest in fossil fuels. As…
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 the answer to a question,…
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 Kinder Morgan put out an…
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 parties have more control over…
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 world’s biggest investor, with 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 project, it is worth examining…
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 (MVNOs), such as Sugar Mobile….
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…