Posts from ‘In Depth’ - Page 24

After the opening prayer of the 2005 Throne Speech (“We ask, oh Lord, for you to endow with wisdom the Premier of this magnificent province. We beseech this also ...

An election is coming up so political donations have once again begun making news. Victoria Times Colonist reporter Lindsay Kines wrote about the latest figures, and Vaughn Palmer followed ...

Last summer we wrote about signs of renewed support within government for community forests . Events of the past few months suggest that the signals ...

Over the last few months British Columbians have been inundated by slick television commercials combining beautiful scenery with happy faces espousing platitudes about BC’s investment climate, job growth, and ...

The New Year has begun, but if you’ve been reading the newspapers, 2005 looks like more of the same from our Canadian governments, particularly BC and Alberta. We’re seeing ...

Click below for some useful links about STV: Wikipedia explanation:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Transferable_Vote Click “1.3 An example” to see the simplified illustration of how the vote occurs. Click 4 “in practice” ...

Coal-mining and coal-fired generation and coalbed methane development are intensifying at an alarming rate in BC. These are potentially hot provincial election issues. Coal is the most noxious fossil ...

Grassoots activists achieved a major victory with the announcement that the ill-advised and much-despised Georgia Straight crossing gas pipline (GSX) has finally been rejected. While the decision today to ...

It has been almost a month since the judgement of the Supreme Court of Canada in the Haida and Taku cases. If you’ve followed Dogwood Initiative’s coverage of the ...