Posts from ‘Elections’ - Page 14
Knock the Vote, Victoria!
Victoria cooled to a chilly -2 C on Friday after the hottest activist-driven day of 2013 thus far: eight days of Enbridge hearings in Victoria had wrapped, rallies and ...
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 ...
Vote for who you like
In May’s federal election, nearly 70 per cent of eligible voters in the Victoria region voted – one of the highest turnouts in the country! In contrast, during the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Liberals, NDP and Greens committed to banning oil tankers on B.C.’s north coast
There was a flurry of speculation last week after Pat Daniel was quoted in the Globe and Mail questioning the Liberal’s commitment to banning oil tankers on B.C.’s north ...
Making sense of election promises
The media keeps on calling to get my take on which party has the best environmental policy. The short answer is that they are all fundamentally flawed, though the ...
Jordan River Forest Lands- It’s an election issue!
Only a few months ago the Jordan River forest lands issue was quiet in the media. It seemed that people had glazed over on the issue. The status of ...