Calgary Reconsidered
Blog | Chris Turner | Tuesday, 11 Sep 2012Six truths about the city that’s no longer, simply, Cowtown Chris Turner I first came to know Calgary, as many do, driving along highways and broad suburban avenues, through the nowhere geography of...
Life sciences and the commodification of everything
Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 10 Sep 2012It was once the case that the term “life sciences” meant the scientific study of living organisms. It meant biology, zoology, ecology, and even bio-ethics. In what must have been a public relations...
Stephen Harper and the melting Arctic
Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 06 Sep 2012In what has become an annual media photo-op, Stephen Harper made his seasonal trek to Canada’s North in August. The bravado of proclamations of “use it or lose it” Arctic sovereignty and flexing of...
Submission to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel
Blog | Elizabeth May | Friday, 31 Aug 2012As leader of the Green Party of Canada and as the Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, I appreciate this opportunity to place on the written record my comments on the Enbridge proposal for...
The shell game
Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 22 Aug 2012The idea of a shell game is simple enough. Three small shells or cups glide around a surface, hiding one small object. Wikipedia notes that this game is an elaborate, if simple, confidence trick,...
Canadians want more product labeling, not reductions in food and drug regulations
Blog | Elizabeth May | Sunday, 19 Aug 2012In all the slashing and burning of existing environmental laws, the dramatic reduction of oversight of the Canadian domestic spy agency, the loss of sovereignty in allowing US law enforcement...
When it Comes to the Pipeline, Harper Talks in Circles
Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 08 Aug 2012Yesterday in British Columbia, Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried to sound a note of reason on the subject of the increasingly unpopular proposal to build 1,100 kilometres of pipeline through the...
British Columbia “firewall” anyone?
Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 08 Aug 2012For anyone familiar with Stephen Harper’s role as a provincial rights advocate, the federal posturing on the Enbridge risky tanker and pipeline scheme is more than ironic. It is a 180 degree about...
National energy strategy possible, federal leadership missing
Blog | Elizabeth May | Sunday, 05 Aug 2012For decades, the legacy of the National Energy Program left politicians so shell-shocked and risk-averse that they were unwilling to even moot the need for a national energy policy.Now that the...
Restitution
Blog | Elizabeth May | Friday, 03 Aug 2012A few weeks ago I talked to a Globe and Mail reporter about the possibilities for cross party cooperation. I shared with her that (my own opinion, and not a party decision) that a good place to start...
