Environment

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]

ENVIRONMENT – Electric autos well-intended but pose other problems

January 22, 2018 // 6 Comments

By JOSEPH QUESNEL Research Associate Frontier Centre for Public Policy IN THE PUSH to normalize electric vehicles, many forget it’s not the end of the road as far as [Continue]

SUZUKI – Large dams fail on climate change and Indigenous rights

January 19, 2018 // 2 Comments

BRAZIL HAS FLOODED large swaths of the Amazon for hydro dams, despite opposition from Indigenous Peoples, environmentalists and others. The country gets 70 per cent of its [Continue]

KNOX – Why the provincial government wants to expand wolf-trapping program

January 14, 2018 // 1 Comment

THE PROVINCIAL government wants to extend the wolf-trapping season on Vancouver Island. To which you reply: We trap wolves here? Yes, we do, which some people think is [Continue]

ENERGY – Fireplace bans endanger lives during emergency situations

December 25, 2017 // 4 Comments

By PETER SHAWN TAYLOR Contributor Canadians for Affordable Energy Oh the weather outside is frightful, But the fire is so delightful. Since we’ve no place to go, Let it [Continue]

EDITORIAL – The mine that divided a community is dead; let healing begin

December 14, 2017 // 10 Comments

An ArmchairMayor.ca editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THURSDAY’S ANNOUNCEMENT that the Ajax project is dead might be the best news for the Kamloops region since the coming [Continue]