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Dear Europe: This is not our Canada
Guest blog by Geoff Mann There was a time, only just passed, when the word “Canada”” brought to mind not only friendly, less narrow-minded North Americans, but a kind ...
Med student donates scholarship money
This note from Kathryn Wills caught our attention early this year and really inspired us: Apparently, I am a radical. I am a Canadian, a proud B.C. resident and ...
Harper’s Big Bad Wolf tactics no fairy tale
My daughter loves fairy tales, particularly the Three Little Pigs. You know how it goes: the Big, Bad Wolf huffs and puffs and threatens to blow down the houses ...
In your words: Say thank you to Joe Oliver
January is normally the slowest month of the year for donations, but this year was a different story. We saw such a surge in gifts that the national media ...
Have an oil tanker or pipeline question? We’ll answer it.
With Enbridge’s tanker and pipeline project to the West Coast being in the news so much lately, many Canadians are learning about the issue for the first time. ...
5 reasons shipping oil to Asia is not in the national interest
One of the more startling takeaways from Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver’s open letter is how the government has confused “corporate interests” as being one and the same as ...
A Wild Start to 2012
January 2012 is set to go down in the history books as a turning point in the battle to keep oil supertankers out of B.C.’s inside coastal waters. It ...
How increasing oil exports hurts the manufacturing sector
Retired Professor of Economics Reimar Kroecher recently wrote me this e-mail: If Enbridge gets permission to build its pipeline from the Tar Sands to Kitimat, and the volume of ...
Predictions for 2012
Never make predictions, especially about the future. – Casey Stengel, Hall of Fame Baseball Manager Almost every year when I get a new calendar I sit down to ponder ...
