Other Voices

TRAVIS – Premier’s foxtrot week: one step forward, two steps back….

March 17, 2017 // 1 Comment

LAST WEEK Premier Christy Clark heard the four letters that every politician dreads, particularly when it’s hitting close to home: RCMP. Only five days after announcing [Continue]

SUZUKI – Faulty logic fuels fossil fools

March 13, 2017 // 2 Comments

APPARENTLY, fossil fuel companies protect watersheds and rivers by removing oil. That’s according to comments on the David Suzuki Foundation Facebook page and elsewhere, [Continue]

TRAVIS – Sorting out the political-donations situation

March 11, 2017 // 3 Comments

THIS PAST WEEKEND the Globe and Mail reported that lobbyists in the province have been making political donations on behalf of their clients, effectively camouflaging the [Continue]

SUZUKI – Greatness comes from moving forward, not backward

March 1, 2017 // 1 Comment

THE BATTLE lines are drawn — in some cases literally. On one side are those reaping massive profits from fossil fuels, determined to extract and sell as much as possible [Continue]

TRAVIS – Liberals’ new budget like a horse designed by a committee

February 28, 2017 // 1 Comment

IF LAST YEAR’S provincial budget could be described as petty, after Finance Minister Mike de Jong doled out an increase in assistance rates for those living with [Continue]

SUZUKI – Marvelous monarchs move Environment Minister McKenna

February 23, 2017 // 0 Comments

FEDERAL ENVIRONMENT and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna had her mind blown recently. Remarkably, it had nothing to do with the political gong show south of the [Continue]