Posts from ‘In Depth’ - Page 10

Corporate benefit, public loss

May 1, 2007 | 

Big returns for BC Liberal donors “The bounty to the white-herring fishery is a tonnage bounty ; and is proportioned to the burden of the ship, not to her ...

How many light bulbs…

April 10, 2007 | 

It’s a heady time for environmentalists. If we look back to the last federal election campaign, nary a word was mentioned about the environment. A year later, politicians are ...

Passing the torch

April 4, 2007 | 

Briony Penn has emerged as the BC coast’s new environmental champion. The newly nominated Liberal candidate for Saanich-Gulf Islands has been passed the torch by David Anderson who led ...

Bulkley residents march against CBM

April 4, 2007 | 

Last week 600 residents of the Bulkley Valley marched in their on-going struggle to prevent drilling for coalbed methane intheir bucolic valley near the town of Telkwa. Those marching were ...

The Tar Sands come to Kitimat

March 22, 2007 | 

If you travel up the Douglas Channel, the 140-kilometre fjord that joins Kitimat to the Pacific Ocean, your mind is unlikely to be on Alberta’s tar sands. Maybe you ...

A look back at our look forward – Community

March 7, 2007 | 

Each year at Dogwood Initiative we undergo a rigorous andesoteric ritual of predicting the future. Last year we made ourpredictions public for the first time, forecasting upcoming trends fordemocracy, ...

Oil addiction, Subsidies and BC's 2007 Budget

February 21, 2007 | 

“Every form ofaddiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine oridealism..”   – CarlJung (1875 – 1961) Everyone knows you can’t trustan addict. Over the last ...

A look back at our look forward – Democracy

February 20, 2007 | 

Each year at Dogwood Initiative we undergo a rigorous and esoteric ritual of predicting the future. Last year we made our predictions public for the first time, forecasting upcoming ...

Earthquake rocks BC Legislature

February 14, 2007 | 

Throne speech marks a tectonic shift in BC politics Scientists were premature in retracting their prediction that an earthquake would occur in BC. On February 13th, , 2007 at ...