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Gordon Campbell’s Greedy, Sticky Fingers in Riverview and Tsawwassen
On Friday, July 27, 2007, Rich Coleman set his status on his Facebook page as “thinking big about Riverview.” Once a mental health facility, it closed down in the 1990s as the model for mental health...
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"Progress", Redux
Before I post my larger review of it, George Monbiot’s new book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning has a poignant line about our sense of progress: “We have come to believe we can do anything....
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Peak Oil Will Kill Neoliberal Globalization: More Support
A year ago today, I wrote about how a few years earlier at lunch with friends I was thinking that peak oil will kill neoliberal globalization. Last year, there was a piece in Report on Business about...
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Handcuffing a Community’s Resilience: Bata in the 21st Century
I first knew Bata shoes as a kid taken shopping to try on new shoes. As a teen I learned about the nexus of globalization and apartheid with Bata as a model, since they were operating in South Africa....
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Eco-Leaders Kerala, Sikkim and Montgomery County
In an era when effective global agreements on addressing climate breakdown are still elusive, it’s encouraging to see sub-national groups taking a lead. Kerala and Sikkim in India and Montgomery County...
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Harper Ignores Positive Trade Opportunity: ALBA
Trade has occurred for thousands of years, not just in the capitalist context of the last few hundred years, and not just in the current neoliberal, free trade context of the last 30 years. For over...
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Safeway’s Lies About BC Produce
Update, 8:00am 9.15.10: I spoke with the Safeway’s assistant manager yesterday afternoon. Her responses: she sounded like she was going to reprimand the produce fellow who gave me the dull stare staff...
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COPE 2010 AGM Live-Blogging 2:30 Start
This afternoon at the Japanese Hall in East Vancouver is the Coalition of Progressive Electors‘ 2010 AGM. Below is the live blogging interface. COPE 2010 AGM March 15, 2009 No One Is Illegal – Ignite...
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Rex Murphy: Tar Sands Booster, Dead To Me
Rex Murphy, never a critical element in how I discern the world, is now officially dead to me. He’s a blustering tar sands cheerleader and disparager of all things otherwise. On Saturday in his above...
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BC, Resilience, Climate Change and the Upside of Down
I remember seeing one of my political science heroes, Thomas Homer-Dixon, at the UBCM and BC NDP conventions in the fall of 2007 speaking about community resiliency in the face of mounting evidence of...
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Why does ArcelorMittal hate Bosnia?
Pollution, people and tombstones in Zenica. Owned by the Indian billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, ArcelorMittal is the world’s largest steel producer—creating some 93 billion USD of revenue as of 2011....
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Ice Crisis at the Poles: Ice, Ice, Baby
What continent is this, anyway? And why does it matter? The arctic ice cap will be fully melting in the next few summers, likely. There is a lake on top of the ice at the North Pole. Santa is getting...
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Just How Many BC Government Comms Staff Are There?
Below are all the job titles of all the comms staff in the BC Government Communications and Public Engagement bodies as of last week. Count with me! There are 278 people! 278. That’s more than a few....
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Who Just Lost 63 Trillion Gallons of Water?
A few weeks ago, we saw that the California drought is going to increase BC’s food prices through the rest of the decade. Scientists know things. This isn’t news to them. They know we have burned too...
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11 Weeks of Daily Harper Protests
The Harper Re-election Disaster Bus Totalitarianism: daily, for 11 weeks! Get used to this. People hate Harper and his Conservatives. We will see through his weak attempt to wedge oppositions parties...
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Gordon Campbell’s Greedy, Sticky Fingers in Riverview and Tsawwassen
On Friday, July 27, 2007, Rich Coleman set his status on his Facebook page as “thinking big about Riverview.” Once a mental health facility, it closed down in the 1990s as the model for mental health...
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"Progress", Redux
Before I post my larger review of it, George Monbiot’s new book, Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning has a poignant line about our sense of progress: “We have come to believe we can do anything....
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Peak Oil Will Kill Neoliberal Globalization: More Support
A year ago today, I wrote about how a few years earlier at lunch with friends I was thinking that peak oil will kill neoliberal globalization. Last year, there was a piece in Report on Business about...
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Handcuffing a Community’s Resilience: Bata in the 21st Century
I first knew Bata shoes as a kid taken shopping to try on new shoes. As a teen I learned about the nexus of globalization and apartheid with Bata as a model, since they were operating in South Africa....
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