Posts by Will Horter - Page 3
Is the TPP "Bitsy Big-Boy Boomeroo"?
When my daughter was a toddler I used to read her Dr. Seuss books at bedtime. I don’t know which of us enjoyed this ritual more, her or me, ...
Gitga’at: Another Legal Earthquake for Oil Pipelines
Another bad day for Big Oil, another really good day for No Tankers supporters. Enbridge and Kinder Morgan’s already torturous path to push unwanted pipelines through British Columbia was ...
Why I’m stepping back as Executive Director and why that’s good for Dogwood Initiative
When I was offered the job as the Executive Director of what is now Dogwood Initiative, the Board told me they wanted to build an organization that worked specifically ...
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 ...
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 ...
My fearless predictions for 2015
When I was a little boy, every year at about this time my mother would sit me down for a talk about my priorities for the coming 12 months. ...
The west wants out
This article originally appeared in the Toronto Star. Earthquakes happen rarely in Canadian politics, but the fault lines are shifting again on the West Coast. As the next federal election ...
Harper and Enbridge’s massive angry inch problem
It’s 2007 and we’ve been running our No Tanker campaign for a couple years. Our Oil Tankers are Loonie campaign had gone viral attracting press and supporters from around ...
Will Harper kill Northern Gateway?
Napoleon Bonaparte learned the hard way: don’t fight on more than one front at once. Stephen Harper is a keen student of history – you can bet he’s absorbed ...