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SUZUKI – Net zero offers affordable path to climate stability

January 22, 2021 // 1 Comment

ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER RECORD. Even with a global seven per cent drop in fossil fuel burning during the pandemic, 2020 tied 2016 for the hottest year recorded, making the past [Continue]

PANDEMIC – Covid-19 pokes the final hole in leaky long-term care boat

January 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

By SHAWN WHATLEY Past President, Ontario Medical Association NURSING HOMES struggled long before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Canada. Now, during the second wave, many [Continue]

POLITICS – Secret ballot on union certifications must be preserved

January 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

By GREG KYLLO MLA, Shuswap THIS PAST FALL, British Columbians from all corners of our province — myself included — headed to the polls to cast our votes in the provincial [Continue]

POLITICS – Think the danger is past? Wrong; insurrection threat isn’t over

January 8, 2021 // 1 Comment

By JACK L. ROZDILSKY York University, Canada IN A DARK AND SURREAL MOMENT in American history, on the afternoon of Jan. 6, a group of Americans staged a violent protest by [Continue]

SUZUKI – Rediscovering our place in nature

January 6, 2021 // 0 Comments

The following is adapted from The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature (Greystone Books), a book I wrote with Amanda McConnell in 1997 and updated in 2007. It [Continue]

SUZUKI – As a bad year ends, we have the power to create a brighter future

December 17, 2020 // 1 Comment

THIS IS OUR LAST column for 2020. What a year it’s been! As if things weren’t bad enough on the environmental front — record-breaking global temperature increases, the [Continue]

SUZUKI – It’s time for Canada to address environmental racism

December 9, 2020 // 0 Comments

IN CANADA, we’re quick to favourably compare ourselves to our southern neighbours. COVID-19 caseloads may be at an all-time high here, but the U.S. situation is even more [Continue]

POLICING – We’re too quick to condemn policing and its frontline officers

December 8, 2020 // 2 Comments

The ugly realities of humanity that we would rather believe belong in someone else’s world are the realities police officers encounter daily By ANIL ANAND Research [Continue]

SUZUKI – Rediscovering the fundamentals of life

December 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

THROUGHOUT CANADA and around the world, the second wave of COVID-19 is hitting hard. Over the next few months, governments will remain focused on addressing the largest [Continue]

MEDIA – A KGB guide to subverting the press to your own agenda

November 23, 2020 // 0 Comments

By LEE HARDING Frontier Centre for Public Policy ‘I CANNOT BUT WONDER why are people pushing for socialism and communism?” an elderly friend wrote on Facebook. “Are [Continue]

DR. BONNIE HENRY – Why B.C. doesn’t have a universal mask mandate

November 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

By DR. BONNIE HENRY B.C. Provincial Health Officer BRITISH COLUMBIANS have been nimble in adapting their individual actions to slow the spread of COVID-19 in our communities [Continue]

SUZUKI – U.S. election shows need to bend the arc toward justice

November 11, 2020 // 0 Comments

AFTER FINISHING HIGH SCHOOL in Ontario in the 1950s, I was awarded a scholarship from Amherst College in Massachusetts. After completing my undergraduate degree, I received [Continue]

U.S. ELECTION – Trump takes a leaf out of autocrat playbook with victory claim

November 5, 2020 // 1 Comment

By NATASHA LINDSTAEDT University of Essex In the months leading up to US election day, it was predicted that Donald Trump would not accept the results if he lost, would cast [Continue]

SUZUKI – What do we lose when the caribou herds disappear?

November 3, 2020 // 1 Comment

ONE CARIBOU HERD in Jasper National Park is gone. The two remaining are on the brink. Regrettably, the story is not particularly new; almost every caribou herd in Canada has [Continue]