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Environmental groups increasingly using competition law to fight fossil fuel sector

CALGARY — Splashed across billboards and city buses, onnewspaper spreads and Facebook feeds, the "Let's Clear the Air" ad campaign by the Pathways Alliance group of oilsands companies is a multi-million-dollar public relations blitz by an industry ke

Oct 1, 2023 5:00 AM Read more >

Skeena, Nass salmon runs healthy in 2023 but El Niño could bring bad news

Fish biologist Shaun Davies worries fish counts could decline as result of higher North Coast sea temperatures

Oct 1, 2023 5:00 AM Read more >

Opinion: OCP often shoved aside for developers

Maybe city staff is equally cynical, explaining how little effort is going into the consultation process around the big OCP review that was supposed to happen this year.

Oct 1, 2023 4:30 AM Read more >

Geoff Johnson: Phasing out letter grades for K-9 a good thing

It will be up to teachers to explain that the proficiency scale takes into account the fact that learning occurs in different ways for each learner and doesn’t always follow a nice, predictable linear pathway

Oct 1, 2023 1:39 AM Read more >

Overdoses from smoking toxic drugs outpace B.C. prevention sites

VANCOUVER — Nearly two-thirds of the overdose deaths in British Columbia this year came after smoking illicit drugs, yet only 40 per cent of the supervised consumption sites in the province offer a safe place to smoke.

Oct 1, 2023 1:00 AM Read more >

Trevor Hancock: We need a great turnaround in societal values

New ethical frameworks for society are needed that reflect values of human solidarity, quality of life and ecological sensibility

Oct 1, 2023 12:38 AM Read more >

Two killed in bear attack at Banff National Park, grizzly euthanized: Parks Canada

A bear attack in Alberta's Banff National Park has left two people dead, Parks Canada announced late Saturday.

Sep 30, 2023 8:33 PM Read more >

Opinion: Transportation paved the way for colonization — it can also support reconciliation

Transport development paved the way for colonization and is directly linked to the chronic and extreme social inequities Indigenous communities continue to face to this day.

Sep 30, 2023 12:00 PM Read more >

B.C.'s retiring top judge looks back on a half-century in law

Chief Justice of B.C. Robert Bauman is hanging up his robes Oct. 1.

Sep 30, 2023 11:00 AM Read more >

Opinion: Winterizing my old trailer a good thing to do for Truth and Reconciliation Day

I plan to winterize my 50-year-old trailer in Shelley with the help of a few friends, including putting up skirting to keep the underside of our mobile home free from flora, fauna, and frost.

Sep 30, 2023 9:53 AM Read more >