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Killing lions for money to kill bears

Did Safari Club’s B.C. election cash come from infamous Vegas wildlife auction? Call it “pay-to-slay” politics. Safari trips to kill exotic animals like lions and elephants may have helped ...

Budgets fail to meet today’s challenge

March 29, 2017 | 

On climate, Trudeau talks like Churchill but walks like Chamberlain With the federal budget delivered in Ottawa last week, we are reaching the tail end of that time of ...

U.S. trophy hunters pass the hat for Christy Clark

Safari Club International sends $60,000 to shore up BC Liberal election campaign If there’s one thing Donald Trump’s sons, Porsche-driving dentists and Texas oil barons love most, it’s straddling ...

Dirty donation déjà vu

The scandal rocking B.C. politics got its start way back in 2001 I love all kinds of movies, but my hands-down favourites are about underdogs. Any movie where the ...

Free advice for Christy Clark’s illegal donors

Do you want the pitchforks now, or the torches later? By the time police in blue windbreakers are yanking the hard drives out of your office computers, or carrying ...

Christy Clark doesn’t want you to vote

And that’s exactly why, two months from the BC election, it’s time to get registered We’re two months out from a provincial election and nobody outside the B.C. political ...

Something fishy about B.C. political contributions?

Guest writer Stan Proboszcz is the Science and Campaign Advisor for Watershed Watch Although some salmon farming companies may try to portray themselves as a marine version of American ...

That ship has sailed: federal review of Massey Bridge denied

Federal intervention on Massey Bridge replacement called for by local electeds denied once again, disappoints locals Maybe this is blatantly obvious given the federal approval of Texas oil giant ...

Dogwood now accepts bitcoin donations

February 17, 2017 | 

We’ve caught up with 2014 (ha, ha) and Dogwood now accepts Bitcoin donations through BitPay! What IS Bitcoin? Basically, it’s an online currency not attached to a government or ...