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Rex Weyler

Stories by Rex Weyler

mediacheck

What's in an Acronym?

Undefined EAJs send journalist OTE.

By Rex Weyler, 3 Jul 2009

opinion

A Tyee Series

Idea #10: Biophysical Economics

In the future, economists will return to earth.

By Rex Weyler, 2 Jan 2009

mediacheck

Attacking Margaret Atwood: Are Limits to Growth Real?

She's been flayed in the Ottawa Citizen for her ideas about scarcity. But who's the 'slack, lazy' one?

By Rex Weyler, 25 Nov 2008

news

Back from Extinction

BC's forgotten Sinixt Nation reoccupies its homeland. A tale of tenacity and joyous rebirth.

By Rex Weyler, 30 Jun 2008

books

Plan Well or Perish

Vancouver architect Richard Balfour on readying his region for oil scarcity.

By Rex Weyler, 27 Mar 2008

books

A Love that Feeds the Hunger

Author Sara Miles on her spiritual quest to help the poor.

By Rex Weyler, 14 Feb 2008

opinion

Delivering 'Framed' John Graham

He faces a US murder warrant. New evidence suggests he's the victim of smears.

By Rex Weyler, 16 May 2007

opinion

Green Spin Out of Control

Forests and seas healing! Oil aplenty! And more eco-baloney.

By Rex Weyler, 15 Dec 2006

news

Will Teachers Leave BC Fed?

BCTF mulls strike – and staying in labour federation.

By Rex Weyler, 14 Mar 2006

news

Who Gets to Use Hank's Beach?

Cortes Island tussle a case study in disappearing BC forest land.

By Rex Weyler, 28 Feb 2006

news

Jim Green, The Tyee Interview

Vancouver Vision's mayoral candidate on the big split, cops, drugs, gambling, panhandlers and more.

By Rex Weyler, 17 Nov 2005

news

Did the Greens Put the BC Liberals Back in Office?

They may have, depending on estimates. Efforts renew to pursue an NDP-Green alliance.

By Rex Weyler, 30 May 2005

opinion

Why Are We Still Hunting Seals?

Canada keeps subsidizing the clubbing and skinning of infant seals in their nursery.

By Rex Weyler, 11 Apr 2005

Greenpeace Visits the Pope

The activists' papal audience began with a comic cloak-and-dagger deportation from Paris.

By Rex Weyler, 10 Sep 2004

Remembering a Great Legal Warrior

David Gibbons, the famed B.C. defence lawyer who died last week, fought for Greenpeace in its early days. A first-hand account.

By Rex Weyler, 10 Sep 2004

Greenpeace Gets a Name

In 1970, a Vancouver anti-nuclear activist casually uttered the words "green peace" and a great movement was launched.

By Rex Weyler, 10 Sep 2004

Greenpeace Tracks the Russians

In 1976, a converted Canadian minesweeper zeroed in on the Russian whaling fleet in the North Pacific.

By Rex Weyler, 10 Sep 2004

life

Tell Laura I Love Her

My class reunion took me back to Texas and memories of tragic, sweet Laura. The Laura who married George, and became America's First Lady.

By Rex Weyler, 15 Mar 2004