When the economy fails, the environment is the first to suffer -- that seems to also include conventional environmental reporting found in print and television journalism. " For all the media reports about a surge in "green jobs," one place we won't likely be seeing them is...
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Who is running our cities in BC? And what can citizens do when governance of them seem to be spinning out of control? Do you think our un-elected city management staff have too much power, and along with our elected officials, tend to abuse the power of public office...
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The Bush administration's controversial plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling was approved by the House of Representatives in 2001, but the Tory government has quietly voiced its...
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" As to global annihilation, I’m stumped. Most of us wouldn’t recognise a strangelet if it casually devoured us in the street There’s a slim chance –...
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Sometimes reality can be stranger than fiction. "Coquitlam RCMP and a local newspaper say they have been contacted by an anonymous tipster who claims he has the bullet-riddled body of an escaped gangster stored in...
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"Not many Indians would have known where Kandhamal is on the country's map or even that it is a part of the state of Orissa. But Kandhamal is burning and the world has sat up to take note.For nearly two weeks,...
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"An industrial accident at a mushroom farm in British Columbia's Langley Township has left three people dead and two others in serious condition.Dozens of firefighters and three air ambulances were called to the...
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"ROME - An Italian museum on Thursday defied Pope Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg that the Vatican had condemned as...
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"GENEVA - Tests have cleared the way for the start-up next month of an experiment to restage a mini-version underground of the "Big Bang" which created the universe 15 billion years ago, the project chief said on...
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"A more discreet charmNational Post Published: Tuesday, August 26, 2008A certain Father Antonio Rungi of the southern Italian diocese of Modragone has come up with what is quite...
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There has been so much in the news about black bear and Pit Bull dog attacks in Metro Vancouver, the last few weeks. Thoughts on both bear and dog been polarized. Save them! Kill them! Co-exist with them?...
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WARNING- Some sarcasm may be offensive to some.Is there anybody out there who really wants a job? Who among home and garden services really wants to work? Is it my unruly home and garden that makes them...
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The "super natural" North Shore forests (North and West Vancouver) are becoming heavily "urbanized". I look at the North Shore as three "urban"
municipalities…perhaps urban parks are the best we can do here...
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Global warming or another Ice Age? It really depends on where you live, and what kind of cloud cover you have, according to a physicist with his "head in the clouds"..."Physicist has head in the clouds studying...
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"Pipe bombs destroyed
Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, January 26, 2008
NORTH VANCOUVER - A bomb sniffing dog scoured a commercial construction site Friday morning after two pipe bombs were found on the floor of a portable toilet.
North Vancouver Cpl. Randall...
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