Other Voices

SUZUKI – Tread lightly and lift the weight of the world’s ‘technosphere’

December 14, 2016 // 2 Comments

HOW MUCH STUFF will you give and receive this holiday season? Add it to the growing pile — the 30-trillion-tonne pile. That’s how much technology and goods humans have [Continue]

SUZUKI – Indigenous people hold the key to caribou survival

December 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

WHEN GOVERNMENT biologists in Canada want to learn where caribou are, they put radio-tracking collars on some animals and monitor their movements. This gives them a rough [Continue]

SUZUKI – Reconciliation requires recognizing rights-based fishing

December 1, 2016 // 1 Comment

FISHING IS as emblematic to Canada as ice hockey. It’s also a way of life with a long tradition in coastal Indigenous communities. But since European contact, it’s been [Continue]

TRAVIS – A look at numbers shows affordable housing plan falls short

November 30, 2016 // 0 Comments

HATE TO BE one of those folk that B.C. Housing minister Rich Coleman believes has nothing better to do than get up and whine every day, but the B.C. government’s [Continue]

SUZUKI – Now what? Trump can’t stop the wave of environmental progress

November 18, 2016 // 0 Comments

NOW WHAT? Many people in the United States and around the world are dismayed that a bigoted, misogynistic, climate change denier has been elected to the highest office in [Continue]

TRAVIS – B.C. government like Maple Leafs when it comes to losing in court

November 18, 2016 // 2 Comments

IF WINNING CASES before the Supreme Court of Canada could be likened to the National Hockey League, the B.C. government would be the Toronto Maple Leafs of litigants. Perhaps [Continue]