Posts from ‘No Tankers’ - Page 26
What the Harper budget means for B.C.’s coast
Most Canadians believe justice needs to be dispensed objectively, without fear or favour, regardless of identity, money, power or weakness. The events of the first half of 2012 show ...
What could Enbridge say to be convincing?
As a father to a four-year-old girl and a busy professional, I don’t have a ton of variety in my leisure reading these days. That’s probably why I’m writing ...
Enbridge on the defensive with $5 million ad blitz
Enbridge announced last week a new multimillion-dollar advertising campaign promoting its crude oil pipeline and supertanker project for B.C.’s coast. The ad blitz includes full-page colour ads and 30-second ...
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 ...
A path to a Canada no one will recognize
LUSH cosmetics is known for being controversial. In 2010, LUSH staff in stores across Canada took off their clothes and donned barrel outfits to protest the expansion of ...
UVic Scuba Club raises nearly $4,000 for No Tankers campaign
British Columbians treasure our coast, but most people’s knowledge of the ocean stops at the surface. What is less well known is that B.C. waters are among the most ...
Harper’s tanker tactics reminiscent of botched National Energy Program
They say history always repeats itself. Certainly Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent aggressive posturing in support of oil supertanker proposals on B.C.’s West Coast harken back to another prime ...
What does 100,000 mean?
I still remember the official launch of the No Tankers campaign like it was yesterday. It was my first day on the job and Dogwood staff and supporters had ...
Oil tankers and pipelines a voting issue in Chilliwack-Hope?
On Wednesday morning I received an email from Mike in Chilliwack: “I have always voted Liberal but am concerned enough about the environment to have my vote swayed.” In ...