Environment

BEPPLE – Province needs to follow local examples on banning plastic bags

April 3, 2019 // 7 Comments

SOON KAMLOOPS will be plastic bag free, or so it appears based on this week’s motion from council to direct staff to come up with a framework to ban single-use plastic bags [Continue]

SUZUKI – Climate change should be the top issue in this year’s federal election

January 13, 2019 // 1 Comment

GLOBAL WARMING isn’t a partisan issue — or it shouldn’t be. The many experts issuing dire warnings about the implications of climate disruption work under political [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Why do we need to wear dead animals for fashion?

December 11, 2018 // 3 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. A RECENT LAWSUIT resulting from the death of a dog in an animal trap has raised the issue of mandatory warning signs where the traps are [Continue]

LETTER – Video of whale playing with log shows we have much to learn

December 10, 2018 // 1 Comment

On Dec. 2, as Christmas time approaches, Lifeforce Ocean Friends found a four year old humpback named “Lorax” playing with a log off Comox Harbour, BC. “Logging is [Continue]

SUZUKI – Decades of denial and stalling have created a climate crunch

November 28, 2018 // 2 Comments

IN A 1965 SPEECH to members, American Petroleum Institute president Frank Ikard outlined the findings of a report by then-president Lyndon Johnson’s Science Advisory [Continue]

SUZUKI – Protecting the complex web of life should be the priority

October 10, 2018 // 2 Comments

NEWS THAT ENVIRONMENT and Climate Change Canada is considering “priority threat management” to assess endangered species is troubling. The method is often used to inform [Continue]