Canada silences a salmon expert
The Canadian federal government in Ottawa has silenced a leading West Coast fisheries scientist who has argued that a virus is infecting and killing sockeye salmon when they enter the Fraser River, not...
View ArticleVancouver injection clinic legal, court rules
A first-of-its-kind safe injection center in Vancouver, B.C., can stay in operation, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday, rejecting efforts by Canada’s federal government to shut it down. “During...
View ArticleVancouver: Mayor in, Occupy ordered out
Vancouver, B.C., Mayor Gregor Robertson, a champion of bicycle lanes who wows to help create “the greenest city in the world,” won a landslide reelection victory Saturday with his civic party winning a...
View ArticleSeparatist Parti Quebecois wins Quebec election
The Parti Quebecois, which wants Canada’s French-speaking province to become a sovereign country, will form the next government of Quebec after a close, contentious election on Tuesday. The PQ is...
View ArticleCanada unprepared for oil spill in Strait of Juan de Fuca
Canada is not ready to respond to an oil tanker spill — large or small — in the Strait of Juan de Fuca or inland waters shared by Washington’s San Juan Islands and British Columbia’s Gulf Islands,...
View ArticleBritish Columbia town votes: We don’t want pipeline and tanker terminal
The town of Kitimat, on the northern British Columbia coast, defied the Canadian government and voted by a decisive margin against a proposed oil pipeline terminus and a super port that be visited by...
View ArticleThe Governor General: Queen Elizabeth’s viceroy on this side of the Pond
Canada’s Governor General David Johnston shoulders a fair number of the tasks borne by President Obama south of the 48th parallel. Johnston was visiting Canadian troops in Afghanistan in 2010 a month...
View ArticleDecision imminent on huge pipeline/oil port in British Columbia
The Canadian government is slated, in the next five days, to announce whether it is approving a $7.9 billion proposed pipeline and oil port that would bring Alberta tar sands oil to a port at the head...
View ArticleProtests, arrests over Canadian pipeline
Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream Thirty-four protesters have been arrested in what’s shaping up as a major confrontation over plans to push a big oil pipeline into a suburb of Vancouver, B.C.,...
View ArticleSenate bill orders Keystone construction: Cantwell urges veto
The U.S. Senate on Friday passed legislation that would force construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, but Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell urged President Obama to veto the measure when...
View ArticleVancouver, B.C.: Trying to head off 890,000 barrel-a-day oil pipeline
Seattle is playing out a Shell game with an Arctic-bound drilling fleet, while its neighbor Vancouver, B.C., is in the sights of a proposed major pipeline terminus and oil port that would have a...
View ArticleCanada’s prime minister: Kids light up, users become ‘addicted’ when...
Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in themes reminiscent of the movie “Reefer Madness,” said Thursday that marijuana is an addictive threat and will never be legalized in the Great White North as...
View ArticleTrickle down politics: Candidate filmed urinating dumped by Canada’s ruling...
The ruling Conservative Party of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has lost two candidates in Canada’s upcoming election, one after being filmed by CBC-TV urinating in a coffee cup, and the other posting...
View ArticleWill Canada throw out Conservative Prime Minister Harper in Monday election?
The scenes on Canadian TV bespeak political desperation, a G-7 leader nine years in office acting like a game show host, with a fake cash register and a sound system going “k-ching” every time Prime...
View ArticleThe great Stephen Harper airport battle in Canada
Outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is moving back to Calgary, a city that has repeatedly elected him to Parliament and where he once headed a conservative think tank. Supporters in...
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