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North Island Election Report
I finally woke up a couple of days ago with enough creative energy to sit down and put some thoughts to paper about my experience in Canada’s 42nd general ...
The final inch to the finish line
I got emotional when I heard that only 10 days after becoming prime minister, Justin Trudeau ordered his ministers to “formalize the moratorium” on crude oil tanker traffic through ...
New MP Carla Qualtrough is really speaking Delta’s language!
Monday was a big day for the Dogwood Initiative coal team. Hon. Carla Qualtrough sat down with us and committed to asking Minister of Environment Catherine McKenna to put ...
A partnership that works!
Dogwood and the BC Sustainable Energy Association (BCSEA) linked arms over a year ago to prepare for the federal election. The partnership took a lot of work, but it ...
Renewed hope for Dogwood’s Beyond Coal team
Two post-election updates from members of our Beyond Coal team. Another bottle of champagne, please The weekend after the federal election the Ross family in Tsawwassen uncorked a bottle ...
Which voting system is best?
When a favourite sports team falls short in the playoffs, fans are quick to find fault with the umpires, the weather, the league – in short, blaming everything the ...
Strategic voting didn’t defeat Harper. Voter turnout did.
History rarely repeats itself, but it does rhyme. Long before Justin Trudeau ever contemplated a life in politics, his father stoked the embers of Western alienation that would give ...
Defence Against the Dark Arts
My daughter loves Harry Potter. As the federal election campaign passes the halfway point, she and I are halfway through the fourth book. As I read to my daughter ...
Spare a Thought for the Cannon Fodder Candidates
This article first appeared in TheTyee.ca on Monday, Sept. 28, 2015. In the last federal election, 1,279 brave Canadians, most of them earnestly wishing to serve their country, ran ...