Other Voices

SUZUKI – Fracking is neither climate solution nor economic blessing

July 10, 2019 // 0 Comments

THE RUSH TO EXPLOIT and sell fossil fuels as quickly as possible before the reality of climate disruption becomes too great to deny or ignore has generated some Orwellian [Continue]

BUSINESS – Victoria City council is the worst, but Vancouver comes close

July 9, 2019 // 0 Comments

By CHRIS GARDNER President, Independent Contractors and Businesses Association IN THE RACE for worst city council in British Columbia, Victoria gets most of the media buzz. [Continue]

HERITAGE – Chateau Laurier addition is an affront to the property’s history

July 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

The proposed addition looks like a giant air conditioner or shipping container. It’s ugly and entirely out of place By RAYMOND J. deSOUZA Senior Fellow, Cardus [Continue]

POLITICS – China clearly has Canada’s number when it comes to food safety

July 4, 2019 // 0 Comments

Diplomatically, China has made Canada look like an amateur trying to play in the big leagues By SYLVAIN CHARLEBOIS Senior Fellow Atlantic Institute for Market Studies CANADA [Continue]

SUZUKI – Fossil fuels still rule but we can resolve the climate crisis

July 3, 2019 // 1 Comment

THERE’S NO SHORTAGE of solutions to the climate crisis. Rapidly developing clean-energy technology, reducing energy consumption and waste, increasing efficiency, [Continue]

PIPELINE – Why a group of First Nations wants to own the Trans Mountain

May 30, 2019 // 2 Comments

By HARRIE VREDENBURT University of Calgary THE STANDOFF BETWEEN Indigenous communities — backed by environmentalists — and the oil industry has led to regional [Continue]