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Harper and FIPA: Sell-out on a Friday afternoon

09/15/2014 By the editor 3 Comments

By Montreal Simon He waited until late Friday afternoon to announce that the Cons had ratified their controversial trade deal with China. Hoping that most people wouldn’t notice. Ottawa confirms it has ratified a foreign investment treaty with China, more than two years after the controversial agreement was signed, as CBC News first reported Friday. […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: British Columbia, business, Canada, Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement, China, Conservatives, Ed Fast, Elizabeth May, Enbridge, Enbridge Pipeline, FIPA, First Nations, Green Party, international affairs, International Trade, law, Northern Gateway Pipeline, oil, oil sands, Stephen Harper, tar sands, trade

PostMedia, post newspaper

07/16/2014 By the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Hey kids, remember PostMedia’s pitch for their tarsands promotion partnership with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers?: Postmedia is proud to present its 2013 media partnership with CAPP. We are a media company national in scope but community-focused. Canadians know our brands, trust our content, and welcome us as a vital member of their […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: advertising, business, Canada, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, David Walmsley, Enbridge Pipeline, Globe and, Keystone Pipeline, newspapers, Northern Gateway Pipeline, Postmedia

Kenney’s new “Labour Minister Missing in Action” program

06/23/2014 By the editor 1 Comment

By Alison@Creekside This week Employment Minister Jason Kenney replaced the old LMOA, Labour Market Opinion Assessment, with the brand new LMIA, or Labour Market Impact Assessment — henceforth to be known as the LabourMinister Missing in Action program for its accelerated 10-working-day approval process to put TFWs in skilled trades. Remember those 270 unionized welders and pipefitters laid off from a Husky […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, Enbridge Pipeline, globalism, Jason Kenney, labour, Northern Gateway Pipeline, oil sands, Phillipines, Stephen Harper, tar sands, Temporary Foreign Workers Program, work

You’ve seen the ads — now play the game!

06/23/2014 By backofthebook.ca 1 Comment

By Drew McLachlan If you live in British Columbia, odds are you’ve seen the video below about a million times. It’s not a Tourism BC advertisement or the new video for that chillwave band your coworker told you about — it’s one of the many ads produced for Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline, which are constantly […]

Filed Under: Northern Gateway Tagged With: British Columbia, business, Canada, Enbridge, Enbridge Pipeline, environment, forests, nature, Northern Gateway Pipeline, oceans, oil, oil sands, tar sands

Northern Gateway: Time to build a firewall around B.C.

06/18/2014 By the editor 1 Comment

By Frank Moher In 2001, Stephen Harper was famously one of the signatories to an open letter encouraging then-Alberta Premier Ralph Klein “to build firewalls around Alberta.” The idea was that Alberta had to protect itself against the encroachments of the federal government. This morning it is BC’s turn to defend itself against a predatory […]

Filed Under: Northern Gateway, Politics Tagged With: Alberta, animals, British Columbia, business, Calgary, Canada, Enbridge, Enbridge Pipeline, environment, forests, nature, Northern Gateway Pipeline, oceans, oil, oil sands, tar sands

Artists for the rainforest — and reality

12/10/2012 By backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Art is at the forefront of a raging energy debate in Canada. Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline – you know, the one that would travel 1,000 kilometres from Alberta to British Columbia’s coast, delivering oil to be pumped into tankers taller than monuments, destination: Asia — has created a small boom in art-not-just-for-art’s […]

Filed Under: Arts and Books Tagged With: Alberta, BC, business, Canada, Enbridge, Enbridge Pipeline, visual arts

Oil spill near proposed Enbridge pipeline route

05/02/2012 By backofthebook.ca Leave a Comment

A BoB short: The Gitga’at Nation of Hartley Bay, B.C. has reported an oil spill, between two and five miles long and 200 feet wide inside the Grenville Channel, not far from the proposed tanker route for the Enbridge Gateway pipeline. According to a media release, the spill, believed to be from a sunken munitions […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: British Columbia, Canada, Enbridge Pipeline, environment, First Nations

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