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Solar, wind offer a path for the BC NDP to hold onto power

October 31, 2024 | 

While B.C. politicians and reporters watched final vote counts trickle in Monday, a literal power-shift was happening up north. BC Hydro finally switched on the first turbine at the ...

Frack Free BC takes on the 2024 election

October 18, 2024 | 

Over the past six weeks, communities across British Columbia turned out in force to put their candidates on the spot about their stance on fracking and LNG. Set against ...

What’s at stake in the B.C. election

The next few years on planet Earth will be some of the toughest ones yet. The people we choose to form government will have world-altering decisions to make, including ...

What is the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission line?

August 29, 2024 | 

The Prince Rupert Gas Transmission line is a fracked gas pipeline first approved in 2014 by then-premier Christy Clark. Its purpose was to feed an LNG terminal planned for ...

LNG is an intelligence operation

July 10, 2024 | 

Facing “hostile complex threats” on foreign soil, a team of American spies deployed as a “force multiplier” to help TC Energy’s 16 local lobbyists achieve victory. No, it’s not ...

Why my family got rid of our gas stove

The day my daughter accidentally left our gas stove on still haunts me. So many things could have gone wrong. So many things did go wrong. It was the ...

The anti-aging hack no one’s talking about

Andrew Huberman is a neuroscientist at Stanford University in California who’s gained huge popularity for his podcast about physical and mental health. It’s called the Huberman Lab, and it ...

Who is John Rustad?

The new-ish leader of the BC Conservatives is a vocal supporter of working-class people and their personal freedoms, and is critical of the BC NDP government’s spending on social ...

Trans Mountain starts operations after 12-year battle

It was springtime and the blossoms were out in North Burnaby. I remember knocking on doors and gathering with neighbours to push our MLA to take a stand against ...