It’s rare that a government accused of undervaluing science and making policy decisions based on predetermined outcomes rather than rational analysis comes straight out and admits that how they function. But today Foreign Affairs Minister John Ba…

Opponents of the Gitxsan Treaty Society spent Monday preparing themselves for arrest. For much of the day, Gitxsan community members crowded at one end of Omineca Street before the Gitxsan Treaty Society offices while police assembled a block away.
The…

This show includes multiple report backs from the April 28th Walk, Rally, and Potluck for Peace, Respect, and Friendship that was held in Grand River territory of the Six Nations (respecting the Two Row Wampum and the Haldimand Proclimation); followed…

In April, Kinder Morgan announced that they were planning to expand an existing pipeline that carries crude oil from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C. The new pipeline would mean a tanker a day would be navigating the waters of the Burrard Inlet. Ben West is…

see-hear-speak-no-evil.jpg As we here at DeSmogBlog have been covering in exhaustive detail for quite some time now, there is virtually no safe way to perform hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for unconventional oil and gas. Fracking has been linked …

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As we here at DeSmogBlog have been covering in exhaustive detail for quite some time now, there is virtually no safe way to perform hydraulic fracturing (fracking) for …

Last Sunday a large crowd of people gathered at the Roundhouse Community Centre in Vancouver to hear speakers opposed both to the proposed pipeline from the tar sands and to the tankers that would then carry the heavy crude oil in huge tankers down the…

Newt Gingrich, yesterday. “He recently vetoed the Keystone pipeline. Now, think about it! He did it…

Eww. If you thought Stephen Harper was a little creepy and his methods suspect, you will think even less of our PM after last night’s South Carolina GOP primary. Newt Gingrich, disgraced in so many ways over his career for not just his philanderi…

Eww. If you thought Stephen Harper was a little creepy and his methods suspect, you will think even less of our PM after last night’s South Carolina GOP primary. Newt Gingrich, disgraced in so many ways over his career for not just his philandering but his breach of ethics, referenced Harper in his acceptance speech after his huge victory in the state. Of all the candidates to praise our PM,

Last week, House Speaker John Boehner’s office released a video that tried to make the case to build the Keystone Pipeline. Mr. Boehner has taken millions of dollars from oil companies and is personally invested in the Keystone XL Tar Sands pipeline….

White House: Congressional deadline torpedoed State Dept. approval

Talk about your foreign influence! But according to a secret source (okay: it’s the company website), Enbridge Chair David Arledge and six of the 12 Enbridge directors are (everyone get ready to gasp in unison): AMERICANS! – Syndicated from http…

Talk about your foreign influence!

But according to a secret source (okay: it’s the company website), Enbridge Chair David Arledge and six of the 12 Enbridge directors are (everyone get ready to gasp in unison): AMERICANS!

Just pull the ring. You never know what she’ll say next. Kathryn Marshall. She’s no puppet. She’s a doll! – Syndicated from http://letfreedomrain.blogspot.com/

Just pull the ring. You know exactly what she’ll say next.

Kathryn Marshall. She’s no puppet. She’s a doll.

CBC has posted Peter Mansbridge’s complete interview with the Prime Minister. In addition to…

fixcas So Obama may balk at the KeystoneXL pipeline, primarily over environmental concerns. How does Harper respond? Without blinking an eye, this leader of ‘ethical’ everything and champion of ‘human rights’ will deal instead w…

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So Obama may balk at the KeystoneXL pipeline, primarily over environmental concerns. How does Harper respond? Without blinking an eye, this leader of ‘ethical’ everything and champion of ‘human rights’ will deal instead with a country rife with human rights abuses and unethical everything. Not only that, China is communist, in case you forgot.

Right now, the US conservatives are

If you ever wanted to know which side of the political spectrum the BC ‘Liberals’ fall, it’s pretty obvious by now it’s neither centre nor left. When a supposed centre-left political party hires a lobbyist whose previous tenure …