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Story Time for Climate Activists: The Big Swim
From guest blogger Carrie Saxifrage In Don’t Even Think About It: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Ignore Climate Change, George Marshall compiled research on brain science as it ...
Esquimalt says yes to a B.C. review of Kinder Morgan
Guest writer Terry Dance-Bennink has been volunteering in various capacities and organizing with Dogwood since 2013. She’s also a regular editorial contributor. You can read her profound story about ...
Why I signed the Let BC Vote pledge
Guest writer Jess Housty’s original post can be found here Last week I signed the Let BC Vote pledge. You could say I’m late to the party. More than ...
Multi-faith Partners Unite for Tar Sands Healing Walk
I came back a changed woman after my river pilgrimage to the tar sands last September and was more determined than ever to take action. After sharing my story ...
Farce Unfolds at Port Metro Vancouver AGM
Many who attended yesterday’s meeting knew they were going to have to sit through the business material of any semi-independent industry and government-appointed board’s reporting. However, we also knew ...
Kitimat Cough
It’s week two now in a whole new reality. Where? Rio Tinto Alcan’s Kitimat Modernization Project. Packed into a crowded work camp for the first time in my life, ...
In the spirit of kindness
Guest blog post by Jess Housty More and more often, we are reading in the news about the federal government and various intelligence and law enforcement agencies allegedly “spying” ...
The Day a Federal Panel Overruled B.C. — And Nobody Noticed
From DeSmog Canada’s Emma Gilchrist On the afternoon of Dec. 19th, as the National Energy Board’s recommendations on Enbridge’s oil tanker and pipeline proposal for B.C. were released, I ...
Franke James asks "What’s Harper afraid of?"
Canadian artist Franke James calls Stephen Harper and Joe Oliver out in this hard-hitting visual essay Story also available as an animated video. Map in detail Link to secret ...