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Royal Bank Told to Get Out of the Tar Sands
Victoria residents gathered outside of Royal Bank of Canada’s Victoria headquarters today to tell the bank to ‘Get Out of the Tar Sands’. The action was one of several ...
Unspinning the BC Budget
The question you have to ask at the BC budget lock up is what’s the difference between the future the BC government says it’s creating and what the numbers ...
A Public Relations War on all Fronts
BC government aims to win hearts and minds in battle to open the province up to more mining, oil and gas Beyond rhetoric about improving competitiveness and establishing the ...
British Columbia: an Energy Super Chump?
A South Korean firm has recently announced over $1 billion of drilling and development money to help Encana pull natural gas from British Columbia’s northeast. This area of the ...
10th Key Question of 2010
Question 10: What happened to the Climate Action Team? David Copperfield should visit Stephen Harper and Gordon Campbell to learn how to make things disappear. They are both becoming ...
9th Key Questions of 2010:
Question 9: Will budget shortfalls trump action on global warming? The upcoming announcements of the provincial and federal budgets will be litmus tests for whether our governments are more ...
8th Key Questions of 2010: Budget Priorities?
Question 8: Will BC prioritize green jobs and energy conservation or simply more subsidies to fossil fuel companies? Like many British Columbians I await next week’s budget with some anticipation. ...
The Commons
There are few places in the world that enjoy a connection to place as passionate and pronounced as the one we benefit from in the CRD. We have the ...
7th Key Questions of 2010
Question 7: Will campaign finance reform happen in 2010? Except for a few party diehards, virtually everyone in BC wants to get big money out of politics. Overwhelmingly, British ...
