Posts from ‘In Depth’ - Page 33
Canadian diplomacy, corporate style
Corporate Canada received a boost earlier this week when Paul Martin announced that an advocacy secretariat will be established at the Washington D.C embassy to lobby the U.S. Congress. ...
11 bidders "pre-qualified" in Call for Tenders
BC Hydro has narrowed the list of bidders in the Call for Tenders for Vancouver Island power solutions to 9 gas-fired projects, one wood waste, and one water. The ...
Martin and softwood diplomacy
Figureheads posing for a photo-op. That is how I would characterize recent reports that Paul Martin and George Bush will discuss softwood lumber when they chat on April 30. ...
Oh what a little information about BC Rail can do
The Liberal government’s scandalous behavior in deceiving the public about the BC Rail privatization is not just a one-day political fender bender, it is a train wreck the could ...
Beauty, Liberal style
Bill Bennet, MLA for East Kootenay, in Hansard, April 26, 2004: “Some people hate the look of a clearcut, for example, and they don’t want clearcuts along highways and ...
Interfor VP Ric Slaco insults German school teacher
Ric Slaco is Chief Forester and a Vice-President at Interfor. In the letter below, he is replying to Angelika Hanko and some of her students, who wrote to Interfor ...
Cache Creek chicken blockade
Click here for the Cache Creek Landfill Song, a backgrounder on avian flu, and more materials Dateline: 6:00 PM, Friday, April 16, 2004 Meeting with Minister van Dongen in ...
Trash is our goldmine: The Cache Creek Landfill Song
The Cache Creek Landfill Song We got a brand new industry That’s catered to finer taste Cause we love Lower Mainland’s money And we learned to love its waste ...
Site C power: we buy, we sell
On March 31, 2004, BC Hydro published their 2004 Integrated Electricity Plan. In it, is discussion of Site C, a third dam proposal for the Peace River. It has ...