Environment

SUZUKI – Renewable communities produce energy, jobs and hope

March 7, 2018 // 0 Comments

ANISHINAABE ECONOMIST and writer Winona LaDuke identifies two types of economies, grounded in different ways of seeing. Speaking in Vancouver recently, she characterized one [Continue]

GARBAGE – China’s ban on foreign garbage reveals recycling’s weakness

February 23, 2018 // 4 Comments

Recycling seems like a neat solution until we can’t dump our garbage on another country and have to deal with it ourselves By LEE HARDING Policy Analyst Frontier Centre [Continue]

NATIONAL PULSE – Trans Mountain battle splits Canadians down the middle

February 22, 2018 // 1 Comment

Albertans are generally united on pipeline positions, the rest of Canada, including BC, is divided February 22, 2018 – While a war of words, political will, and even wine [Continue]

SUZUKI – We can’t keep closing our eyes to the facts of climate change

February 21, 2018 // 3 Comments

CONTRARY TO a common perception, ignoring climate change won’t make it disappear. Global research going back to 1824 in fields ranging through physics, oceanography, [Continue]

ROTHENBURGER – Would the 2010 railway-tie hysteria be different now?

February 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

BACK IN 2010, a man named Kim Sigurdson was the most unpopular man in Kamloops. Sigurdson had the temerity to propose a solution to a major environmental problem — the [Continue]

ENVIRONMENT – The plastic bag ban bandwagon is way off course

February 13, 2018 // 3 Comments

By LEE HARDING Research Associate Frontier Centre for Public Policy THE FISH in the movie Finding Nemo had made their great escape. After a far-fetched plan and an unlikely [Continue]