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TRAVIS – Some political donations come from far corners of the world

April 2, 2017 // 1 Comment

B.C. POLITICS already has its dark money – donations that are difficult to trace back to an actual donor – but the free for all when it comes to political fundraising in [Continue]

SUZUKI – Welcome to the 21st century: Brighter times or a new Dark Age?

March 29, 2017 // 2 Comments

IF YOU OWN a smartphone, you have more computing power at your fingertips than NASA scientists had when they put people on the moon in 1969! And it’s in a small device, [Continue]

SUZUKI – Facts and evidence matter in confronting climate crisis

March 22, 2017 // 1 Comment

WE RECENTLY HIGHLIGHTED the faulty logic of a pseudoscientific argument against addressing climate change: the proposition that because CO2 is necessary for plants, [Continue]

SUZUKI – Intact Peel River wilderness is a hedge against our ignorance

March 20, 2017 // 1 Comment

IN 2011, I travelled with my family down Yukon’s Hart River. It’s one of seven pure rivers in the Peel River watershed, a 68,000-square-kilometre wilderness that’s been [Continue]

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]