News and views on climate, energy and politics you won't find anywhere else - Page 83
May 2nd was an important day in Canadian history
While the unexpected Conservative majority and NDP surge dominated news coverage in the wake of the recent federal election, a less publicized issue had a major impact in key ...
Dogwood Initiative Applauds CRD Decision
Media ReleaseFor immediate release 12/05/2011 Dogwood Initiative Applauds CRD decision(Victoria, BC) – Yesterday, at the end of a 1 hour closed-door meeting with their lawyers, the CRD board took ...
This is what we did
Expect amazing volunteers, hard work and an idea of what the election results mean for keeping oil tankers off our coast.
Why the political pundits are wrong about B.C.
The spike in support for the NDP first in Quebec, and now apparently across the country has political commentators in a frenzy. Pundits are spewing their opinions about who ...
Ida Chong Vetoes CRD
Victoria, B.C. – Minister of Community, Sports and Cultural Development Ida Chong announced today that she is refusing the Capital Regional District (CRD) board’s request to make improvements to ...
New poll: Oil tanker issue will influence how four in 10 British Columbians vote in federal election
Victoria, B.C. – Just days before the federal election, new polling results indicate 78.9 per cent of British Columbians support a ban on oil tanker traffic in B.C.’s inside ...
Why the CRD is broken (and how to fix it)
Nothing in the world is static. Biological forces such as natural selection and competition for scarce resources compel organisms to evolve, transform themselves or potentially die out. The same ...
Chocolate with a message
In 2009 chocolate-lovers received a special surprise when they opened their Denman Island Chocolate bars. As part of a creative collaboration between Dogwood Initiative and longtime supporter and Denman ...
Canada has more to offer the world than oil
Enbridge CEO Patrick Daniel has been getting a lot of attention lately while pushing his view that his Northern Gateway oil supertanker proposal for B.C.’s coast presents a profound ...
