Sometimes an April day will suddenly bring showers Rain to grow the flowers for her first bouquet. — Lyrics from hit song by Pat Boone, 1957. STARING OUT THE [Continue]
CANADA COULD BE a clean electricity powerhouse by 2035 — without building more large hydro dams or relying on expensive and sometimes unproven and dangerous technologies [Continue]
“I’VE SEEN FIRE and I’ve seen rain.” So go the lyrics of a hit song by James Taylor. We saw that last year in many parts of the province. And we are being warned [Continue]
IT WAS EARTH DAY a week ago. The happy stories abounded and there were also the reminders that make us uncomfortable. We love our home and thus on Earth Day we do things to [Continue]
WE SPEAK, but we don’t do. That pretty much sums up Canada’s $9.1 billion climate plan announced this week in Vancouver by the prime minister. It’s a lot of money, but [Continue]
NUCLEAR ENERGY has an image problem. For decades, it has been the energy source that dares not speak its name. No wonder, with the disasters at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl [Continue]
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. THE HYDRO BILL for our house arrived the other day. It was shocking. We’re used to high electricity bills in December and January but this [Continue]
By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE December 27, 2021 – It’s the holiday season and Canadians are being told to limit their social contacts as the COVID-19 virus sweeps across the [Continue]
HAD ENOUGH OF NATURAL DISASTER this week? Floods, mudslides, washouts, the Canucks. Doesn’t help that the storm, followed by an unsettling avalanche of stories about its [Continue]
By JOHN J. CLAGUE Simon Fraser University THE WEST COAST of Canada is known for its wet autumn weather, but the storm that British Columbia’s Fraser Valley experienced over [Continue]
RESOLVING THE CLIMATE CRISIS isn’t just about shifting from one technology to another; it’s about shifting our ways of thinking and being. It’s a point that often gets [Continue]
WE ARE PAST the point of debating whether climate change is real. International panels of scientists have established again and again that our climate is heating on a [Continue]
A statement by Kamloops-North Thompson MLA Peter Milobar today (Nov. 15, 2021) in the B.C. Legislature during discussion of the COP26 climate conference. P. Milobar: Well, [Continue]
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. I’VE HAD THIS VISION in my head all weekend of City councillors Kathy Sinclair and Arjun Singh peddling around town on their e-bikes, [Continue]