What makes me sad about the election in British Columbia is that I know a lot of folks that really care about the people and the planet had their hearts broken. The candidates and their supporters that I saw at the left-leaning BC New Democratic Party's election night party were...

Soon after closing the Vancouver Coast Guard station and the Vancouver Marine Traffic Control centre, Stephen Harper has come out with a new plan for tanker safety. Of course we need the best safeguards available to deal with the increased tanker traffic we are already facing in the...

A few days ago, I noticed something pretty striking when reading the U.S. State Department's report about the proposed Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. It made me wonder if the U.S. officials are really paying attention to what's happening up here in B.C.

The report claimed the pipeline...

Earlier this summer it filled my heart with pride and joy to watch my good friend Chief Rueben George, stand before the sacred tree in the Arbor of a Sun Dance ceremony in Lakota territory, South Dakota and read a declaration of indigenous spiritual leaders against tar sands pipelines and...

Kinder Morgan would like us to believe that their Trans Mountain pipeline project in British Columbia is a better proposal than the one Enbridge has put forward, and that they're a more responsible company. Of course, as a climate activist I don't see any oil company proposing to...

"It's global warming, stupid!" Believe it or not, that is what it says on the cover of Business Week right now. This is of course a reference to Bill Clinton's internal campaign slogan from 1992 -- "It's the economy, stupid" -- which was made famous by the documentary film The...

I participated in a press conference last week in the observation deck on the top floor or one of Vancouver's tallest buildings almost 150 meters (about 500 feet) above ground. This unusual media event was well suited for the unusual situation we have before us.

The Harper government has...

When was the last time you can remember global warming being the top story on the evening news?
Yeah, I don't remember either.

The United Nations' international climate policy negotiations in Copenhagen back in 2009 was the last time that global warming was consistently front page news.

That seems...