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An unusual opponent made clear this week its position that the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project would not only harm the environment, but also the Canadian economy. Read more…
Last week's poll: Do you support a more proportional electoral system? Read the results of that poll here.
When I was pregnant with my daughter, I wrote a lot on this blog about the dangerous toxins that we carry in our bodies and that pass through us to our babies in the womb and in our breast milk. Read more…
Among the 7,849 pages of documents gathered by Premier Clark's deputy minister John Dyble to investigate the Liberals' misuse of government resources in its multicultural outreach strategy was a hidden gem: the confidential staff contact list for Government Communications and Public Engagement (GCPE).
What's interesting about the Feb. 18 revised staff contact list, marked "for internal use only" is not so much the names but the numbers. The list shows 225 positions in the GCPE, which is headed by Deputy Minister Athana Mentzelopoulos. The largest division within the organization currently is media monitoring services, with 18 staffers. Read more…
Health-care workers and refugees gathered yesterday in downtown Vancouver to urge the federal government to reverse last year's cuts to health care benefits for refugee claimants. Read more…
Today marks the start of the final stage of public hearings in the Northern Gateway pipeline review.
Proponents and opponents of the project, which would see the construction of two 1,200-kilometre pipelines from near Edmonton to Kitimat, will make their final pitches to the federal review panel over the next two weeks. Read more…
The citizens' advocacy group Democracy Watch released details today about what it considers failures in the Senate scandal investigation. Read more…
The Tyee is proud to have won this year's Excellence in Journalism Award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. Read more…
New Democratic Party leader Adrian Dix has shaken up some of the more high profile critic roles in the new shadow cabinet announced today. Read more…
Last Tuesday, the rabble rousers behind ShitHarperDid.ca, a political comedy website, launched a campaign to collect 10,000 "job references" to back their application to produce Canada's new Economic Action Plan ads. Read more…
BC Hydro will pay the Peace River Regional District (PRRD) more than $168 million over 70 years to compensate for local impacts of the Site C Dam.
Although the project has yet to be approved, the provincial utility and the regional district announced details of a regional legacy benefits agreement today. That agreement includes payments of $2.4 million to be made to the PRRD each year for 70 years. Read more…
A crude oil leak has cast Kinder Morgan in a critical light ahead of a bid to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline. The National Energy Board (NEB) received a report from Kinder Morgan late yesterday afternoon, notifying the regulator of a leak on the pipeline southeast of Merritt, B.C. Read more…
Nearly a dozen days after the fact, Alberta's tardy energy regulator has reported that a ruptured pipeline owned by Apache has spilled nearly 60,000 barrels of contaminated water near Zama City, Alberta. Read more…
The Green Party of British Columbia has made a virtue of skipping the July 10 byelection against Premier Christy Clark in Westside-Kelowna, but the party failed to run a candidate there during the general election as well. Read more…
The Capilano University board of governors last night passed the proposed 2013-14 budget, effectively ending a number of university programs and departments. Brent Calvert, who teaches in an affected program, told The Tyee in an email that the vote was "11 in favour of the budget, 2 opposed, 1 spoiled, 1 non vote." Read more…
The city should require low-income "social impact assessments" of all new businesses and condominiums in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, similar to neighbourhood reviews when addictions recovery centres or shelters are proposed for wealthier neighbourhoods, suggests a housing advocate. Read more…
When British Columbia Premier Christy Clark announced new cabinet committees this week, she dropped four that had existed before the election, signalling the government's shifting priorities.
Gone are committees on Families First, Jobs and Skills Training, and Open Government and Engagement, as well as a working group on Family Affordability. Read more…
Preliminary data from the Vancouver School Board's student enrolment numbers shows Vancouver housing prices, not independent schools, to blame for decline in student enrolment. Read more…
The province is missing out revenue by charging large companies, including those in the natural gas industry, too little for the water they use. Read more…
One of the BC Liberal's first actions after being re-elected last month was to raise the pay for political staff, says the New Democratic Party's John Horgan. Read more…
Shortly after announcing buyouts at its Vancouver newspapers, Postmedia Network says it's now vacating two floors occupied by the Vancouver Sun and The Province at its 200 Granville Street location. Read more…
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