Opinion

The premier’s quixotic inconsistency appears to be designed to garner votes in the current B.C. election campaign rather than indicating a rational approach to climate change.

The leaking of these details, from a town hall meeting for all NEB staff, didn't sit well with senior management. That's what brought the private investigator into the mix.

Open scientific data is not only in the public interest, it is also democratically and morally right, say scientists praising an expert panel recomendation.

Greenpeace campaigner Keith Stewart examines resistance from Kinder Morgan shareholders concerned about the risks being taken with their money.

Only 50 per cent of British Columbians think citizens are influential in shaping policy. Corporations are regarded as the most influential group.

You don’t walk back bold statements like this.

350.org says the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers has too much lobbying influence on the government and should not be sponsoring the Canadian Museum of History.

Mirko Zardini, the director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture, reflects on often-conflicting ideas about human relationships to the environment.

Today, nearly two decades on, bottled water is still shipped into some parts of the community – here in a country envied on the world stage for our wealth when it comes to natural water resources.

Thank you to all backers for funding the new State of the Animal report. Now, if we can make our stretch goal, we'll do an investigation on how the Mount Polley mining disaster impacted salmon.

Canada's recent ratification of the Minamata convention on mercury is an important first step. Now the real work begins.

State of Animal is 75% funded. Please pledge now so we can afford to do an in-depth special report on animals and their homes, and the human activities that endanger them.

Jorge Amigo shares his family story of seeing humpbacks in Puerto Vallarta, and connects it to the impacts of industrial projects on the same whales in their Great Bear Rainforest sanctuary.

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"Dread welled up as I fumbled for my phone to call 911."