Gordon Laxer: More pipelines aren’t needed to supply Canadians
Would leaving much of Canada’s oil in the soil prop up Saudi Arabia’s odious dictatorship? That’s Joseph Maloney’s far-fetched case against the Leap Manifesto in his op-ed Friday. The boilermakers...
View ArticleLetters: Justin Trudeau, just not ready?, oil, amalgamation, Komagata Maru...
Given his conduct, can we trust Trudeau with big decisions? It was Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s attempt to unduly restrain the opposition parties’ democratic prerogatives that eventually prompted...
View ArticleBarry Cooper: Energy East foes are all about keeping the West down
For the past six weeks, I have been doing research in the United States. Only the state dinner penetrated the news blackout on Canada. When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s words were reported, they...
View ArticleLetters: Boycott B.C., pipelines, oil, Stephen Harper, climate, euthanasia
Calgary family calls for B.C.-goods boycott over pipelines We have just made a decision in our family to no longer buy B.C. wines (as much as we like them) or B.C. fruits and vegetables (as fresh as...
View ArticleNeil Menard: Interior folks love the environment and support pipelines
There has been a lot of discussion about pipeline projects in recent days, especially in the Lower Mainland of B.C., where urban environmentalists tend to dominate the conversation. People seem to...
View ArticleLetters: Marijuana, Vancouver city hall, U.S. Open, tanker routes, oil,...
Vancouver failing to consider harms of using marijuana There was such a public outcry over yoga on a bridge that the premier was “compelled” to cancel it and yet Vancouver city manager Penny Ballem’s...
View ArticleLetters: Kids, play, oil, LNG, fuel exports, guns, Burrard Bridge, TransLink,...
They’d call the police if kids played like we did in the past Marpole, in the 1920s and 1930s was a great place to grow up. It was an area of homes filled with people who knew their neighbours. And...
View ArticleLetters: Dario Bartoli, youth violence, mumps, Sony leaks, guns, oil, taxes,...
Terrible to lose a teenage When teenagers — who should have a future life in which to dream, learn and grow — are killed we are all left wondering how such tragedies can befall them. It is terrible...
View ArticleCapt. Stephen Brown: Exxon-Valdez-type spill is not possible in B.C.
In the past few weeks, we have witnessed the protests on Burnaby Mountain, where activists assembled to protest against the survey and sampling work related to potential oil pipeline infrastructure...
View ArticleStewart Muir: Reject the false claims of resource job killers
In coming days, activists in Vancouver will launch a campaign saying that increased oil shipments will inevitably destroy the B.C. tourism industry. They are choosing to do this now because they hope...
View ArticleChristopher Wilson: Burnaby Mountain is no Clayoquot Sound
During the last few weeks, a time-warp has descended over Burnaby Mountain. I’m not just referring to the fact counter-cultural, anti-everything protesters are showing up in their best arrestee attire,...
View ArticleLetters: Dharm Makwana, racism, U.S. immigration, oil, heroin, poverty,...
Canada an ‘autumn tree of colours’ I am deeply sorry for the interrogations that Dharm Makwana and his wife received. Even had I not dated an Egyptian woman with the last name Khadr for a decade, I...
View ArticleLetters: Ferguson riot, media, police shootings, Pat Quinn, hygiene, Burnaby...
Media to blame? CNN’s coverage of the violence in Ferguson, Mo., provides a justifiable reason to question how much the presence of media might influence levels of tension and behaviours at public...
View ArticleLetters: Burnaby Mountain protest, Kinder Morgan, oil, pipelines, wealth,...
Police should do their job I couldn’t agree more with Tuesday’s editorial about the protester on Burnaby Mountain. I understand their concerns, but until we have a viable and commercially available...
View ArticleLetters: Vision attack ads, Remembrance Day, Whitlock, MPs, climate, oil
Attack ads show fear of voters If you’ve seen the Vision Vancouver attack ads against the Non-Partisan Association, doesn’t it make you wonder? Vision is spending a lot of money on those negative ads....
View ArticleMichael Burt: Pipeline jobs won’t strain B.C. labour market
The Trans Mountain Expansion Project is a major investment in Canada’s oil transportation infrastructure. It is not, however, too big a project for British Columbia’s labour market and economy to...
View ArticleLetter of the Week: Pipeline exporting crude isn’t good for Canada, job creation
A recent opinion piece from a handful of construction unions — Northern Gateway pipeline needed to enrich us all — was long on rhetoric about the Northern Gateway pipeline and short on facts....
View ArticleConstruction unions: Northern Gateway pipeline needed to enrich us all
For generations, Canada has developed its natural resources to build our economy for the benefit of working families. Those resources are the foundation of our quality of life, supporting our schools,...
View ArticleDan Miller: How will we pay for stuff without the resource sector?
As taxpayers wrestle with another government/teachers collective-bargaining process, and voters look to municipal elections across the province in a little less than six months, let’s get some things...
View ArticleLetters: Humpback whales, oil, trade embargoes, Crimea, Russia, jaywalking,...
Oil before whales Timing is everything, it seems. The federal government has removed North Pacific humpback whales from the list of threatened species, helped along by persuasion from Alaska’s...
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