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TRAVIS – Stipend affair not exactly a shining moment for B.C.’s Liberals

February 4, 2017 // 1 Comment

“WHEN DID our moral standards become so complicated?” It was a question left hanging in a recent email to me from Linda Kayfish, the sister of Roderick MacIssac. MacIssac [Continue]

SUZUKI – Indigenous people are fighting for us all

February 2, 2017 // 0 Comments

IN THE 1990s, the David Suzuki Foundation embarked on a program to develop community economic projects with coastal First Nations. Between 1998 and 2003, my wife and [Continue]

SUZUKI – Work less, live better

January 25, 2017 // 2 Comments

SINCE THE 1950s, almost everything about work in the developed world has changed dramatically. Rapid technological advances continue to render many jobs obsolete. [Continue]

TRAVIS – Donations to B.C. Liberals don’t give warm grassroots feeling

January 21, 2017 // 2 Comments

MERE HOURS before the New York Times went to press with its look at the B.C. Liberal party’s ethical scorecard, the party chose to get its 2016 fundraising results out [Continue]

SUZUKI – Anthropocentric view ignores crucial connections

January 18, 2017 // 2 Comments

FOR DECADES, scientists have warned that we’re on a dangerous path. It stems from our delusion that endless growth in population, consumption and the economy is possible [Continue]

SUZUKI – We can benefit by thinking more like a forest on solar energy

January 12, 2017 // 1 Comment

IF YOU FLY over a forest and look down, you’ll see every green tree and plant reaching to the heavens to absorb the ultimate energy source: sunlight. What a contrast when [Continue]