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Fort McMurray’s caustic cycle

05/16/2016 by Contributor 1 Comment

By Brady Tighe When I fly up to Fort McMurray for a seven-day shift in camp, there are some things I expect: Bad coffee, salty food, miserable weather that ranges from vicious heat to teeth-shattering cold, profanity, talk about sports teams that suck, bugs the size of Buicks, country music that makes me want to […]

Filed Under: Living Tagged With: Alberta, business, corporations, disaster, Fort McMurray, oil, oil sands, tar sands

Hey Boo-Boo, we’re in big trouble

01/16/2015 by the editor Leave a Comment

 By Montreal Simon Well it must have been a grim scene in the PMO bunker this week. For years the Con propaganda machine has tried to brainwash Canadians into believing that Stephen Harper is a Great Economist Leader. The steady hand on the wheel, steering us to prosperity, the only leader who knows ANYTHING about economics. […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Alberta, Canada, Canadian economy, Conservatives, economics, Joe Oliver, oil, oil sands, Stephen Harper, tar sands

Kinder Morgan: A little uncoordinated

11/28/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Montreal Simon They have gathered on Burnaby Mountain to try to prevent the giant energy company Kinder Morgan from drilling a hole through its heart. Dozens of young and old activists have been arrested.   But today they won a big court victory, and Kinder Morgan got a big slap in the face. A […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: British Columbia, Burnaby, Burnaby Mountain, Canada, civil liberties, First Nations, Kinder Morgan, law, oil sands, protest, RCMOP, Stephen Harper, Stewart Phillip, tar sands, Trans Mountain pipeline

“The Province”: Doing it right for the petroleum producers

11/24/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside h/t Waterbaby That’s very good, isn’t it? “Kinder Morgan has solved the NIMBY problem by taking the backyard.” I also liked his debunking of the attempt to de-legitimize protest itself — the argument that “protesters undermine the rule of law by claiming to speak for the whole community.” Hey, here’s one now from […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: 24 Hours, British Columbia, Burnaby, Canada, Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, civil liberties, Kinder Morgan, newspapers, oil sands, Postmedia, protest, RCMP, Rick Perry, Sun Media, tar sands, Texas, The Province, Trans Mountain pipeline, USA, Vancouver

The Vogons assess FIPA

09/19/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Alison@Creekside Prior to the enactment of the Canada-China FIPA, the Canadian government pushed two omnibus bills through the HoC which included provisions designed to substantially weaken environment policies and regulations, some of them at the behest of a pipeline lobby group: G&M : Pipeline industry pushed environmental changes made in omnibus bill The Canadian Energy Pipeline […]

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: business, Canada, Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement, China, Conservatives, environmental, FIPA, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, international affairs, International Trade, law, oil, oil sands, religion, Stephen Harper, tar sands, trade

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

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

Immersed in the oil sands

03/18/2014 by the editor Leave a Comment

By Rachelle Stein-Wotten “Fort McMurray, city of excess,” says the voice-over in the trailer for Fort McMoney. The documentary video game, produced by the National Film Board and the Montreal-based game developer TOXA, allows users to take control of the boomtown, and determine the virtual fate of the oilsands. Combining real footage and interviews with […]

Filed Under: Media Tagged With: Alberta, film, Fort McMurray, money, National Film Board, new media, online gaming, online media, tar sands, video games

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

Trudeau on quantum computing

The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

Rick Meyers in Nanaimo Pride Parade

My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

Stephen Colbert on Late Night set

Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

First Nations defending Lelu Island

The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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