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Scrap Bill C-39: Protect Canada’s Environmental Laws
Bill C-30 Pest Control Products Act allows Ministers in the government to override scientific decisions on the use of pesticides previously banned by Health Canada. This marks the most significant setback in Canadian pesticide regulation in over a generation,…
The Deeper Challenges Underlying Our Political Unease
Surveying the political scene after the recent provincial election, it seems to me there is a lot of discontent and unease out there. We saw the NDP ejected in favour of a relatively unknown, inexperienced and potentially fragmenting alternative, the newly minted B.C. Conservative Party. I am not so sure…
Capitalism: A Global History
This book is quite astonishing. Over the past ten years I have read some 600 books on economics and economic history, and Sven Beckert’s book stands head and shoulders above them all. For Thomas Picketty, it’s “monumental, a must read.” Yes, it is 1,100 pages long,…
Microplastics in Me
This report features credible scientific research with findings from 28 people who had their blood analyzed, including Margaret Atwood, actor Fran Drescher and Victoria Pruden of the Metis National Council. Read the report here.
How Are Canadian Pension Funds Invested?
Hundreds of Canadians turned up to the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board’s (CPPIB) public meetings across the country this past October to ask how their retirement savings are being invested. But despite people lining up at the microphones…
Student-led Evening Bus Pilot Launches in B.C.’s Columbia Valley After Years of Advocacy
After nearly four years of work, a new evening bus pilot is finally running in B.C.’s Columbia Valley, giving residents another way to get around after regular transit service ends for the day. The Late Bus runs from Edgewater in the north to Canal Flats in the…
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The Elderberry: A Symbol of Climate Resilience in Canada
As a natural resource, the elderberry is cherished for supporting ecological conservation and personal wellness. Beyond its nutritional value, the elderberry may also represent something greater, such as a symbol of resilience amid climate change.
Suzanne Simard Forest Panel
Thanks to Laura Lynch and the What on Earth team for this fantastic Earth Day podcast featuring Suzanne Simard, who became famous for her work about how trees communicate through a forest web; Tsimshian scientist Teresa Ryan, Kwakwaka’wakw artist and hereditary chief…
Compassion & Democracy
This short talk should resonate far and wide. John Ralston Saul presents a historic and unique look at compassion from the perspective of foreign policy, democracy and war. Saul is the husband of Adrienne Clarkson, a now retired Canadian journalist and stateswoman who…
When It Comes to Sustainability, Ottawa Ignores an Inconvenient Truth
Last week, I began an analysis of the federal government’s draft Federal Sustainable Development Strategy, which somehow manages to ignore planet Earth, fails to mention planetary boundaries or our ecological footprint, or to recognize ecological limits and the need to invest in…
All UDI Municipal Memberships on Vancouver Island Eliminated. What’s next?
It took about 4 years for all 8 municipalities on Vancouver Island + the CRD, to withdraw their memberships in the UDI, a lobby for development and real estate interests. This is what happened in the process, and what is still yet to be determined.
Re.climate.ca’s Four Steps to Breaking the Spiral of Silence
Re.climate.ca‘s Four Steps to Breaking the Spiral of Silence – A Users Guide for Communicating Climate Change and Solutions is available as a short resource guide here. Watch the webinar video replay here. Follow along with slides here. Related Links: …
Improve Old Growth Ecosystem Conservation
Please write in support for the Improve Old Growth Ecosystem Conservation Resolution to your Municipal Government reps. SILGA votes on this resolution end April 2026 and if passed, the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) vote Sept 2026. Thank you.
Balancing Nature’s Needs with Fire Protection: Protecting Trees, Dispelling Myths
Are we putting too much emphasis on targetting trees as a fire threat while we trustingly leave our highly flammable, plastic-laden vehicles parked in or next to our residences? Creatively United presents this free webinar/conversation and Q&A with some of BC’s…
Urgent Need for a Windfall Profits Tax on Oil and Gas
“No great fortunes can be accumulated out of wartime profits.” — J.L. Ilsley, Canada’s Second World War finance minister As in the past, this illegal war appears to be lasting considerably longer than its US protagonists initially claimed. And even if this ostensible…
Draft Sustainable Development Strategy Misses the Mark
Thirty-nine years ago, Gro Harlem Brundtland, prime minister of Norway and chair of the World Commission on Environment and Development, presented its report to the United Nations. That report, Our Common Future — widely referred to as the Brundtland Report — proposed the concept of sustainable development…
Nature In Pause: Liz Charsley’s ‘Fermata’ Opens at Gage Gallery
Liz Charsley’s new art exhibition, “Fermata”, opens at Gage Gallery, capturing the stillness of Vancouver’s natural landscape through charcoal.
Citizens Fight to Save Cable Bay Forest
Pacific Wild is backing local heroes defending the biodiverse lands surrounding Cable Bay Trail near Nanaimo – home to wildflower meadows, old-growth forests, and shoreline habitats adjacent to Dodd’s Narrows, an important feeding ground for sea lions, whales and…
