TRAVIS – Liberals’ new budget like a horse designed by a committee
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]
Other Voices
SUZUKI – Marvelous monarchs move Environment Minister McKenna
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]
SUZUKI – Govt must do more to address First Nations’ water issues
NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION in Ontario has had to boil water since 1995. “We’re over 20 years already where our people haven’t been able to get the water they need to drink [Continue]
TRAVIS – Election campaigns are like living in a cross between a parallel universe and Groundhog Day
SPLAT. It would seem British Columbia’s 41st general election is well underway. The uproar this week over news that someone may have hacked the B.C. Liberal [Continue]
SUZUKI – Understanding climate change: reading beyond headlines
SEEING TERMS like “post-truth” and “alternative facts” gain traction in the news convinces me that politicians, media workers and readers could benefit from a [Continue]
TRAVIS – Stipend affair not exactly a shining moment for B.C.’s Liberals
“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
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
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
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
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
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]
TRAVIS – Some things the government should clear up before May election
HATE TO BE the bearer of bad tidings, but 2017 is an election year in British Columbia. On the presumption they’re not the same thing, government and election ads [Continue]
SUZUKI – We must heed warnings about humanity’s collision course
THE LONGER we delay addressing environmental problems, the more difficult it will be to resolve them. Although we’ve known about climate change and its potential impacts [Continue]
TRAVIS – A few resolutions for B.C. politicians as we close out 2016
2016 IS ALMOST a wrap and – safe to say – one for the books. In keeping with the spirit of the season, though, it’s time for a few New Year’s resolutions for [Continue]
