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Blog - Politics

Cache Creek expansion shifts focus from carbon dioxide to methane

By Helen Spiegelman
Belcorp's announcement last week that it is committed to expanding the Cache Creek landfill for Metro Vancouver garbage takes us out of the frying pan into the fire.
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What Metro Vancouver doesn't want us to think about

By Helen Spiegelman
Prevent Cancer Now, a Canada-wide movement to eliminate the preventable causes of cancer, has just launched an anti-incineration campaign. Their Web site says:
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Driving Mr. Laden: the most hideous war crime of all

By Mike Cowie
Driving, according to the George W. Bush administration, is the newest war crime. Yes, war crime.
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Former U.S. presidential candidate John Edwards admits to affair

By Doug Sarti
In an interview with Bob Woodruff of ABC News this morning, former presidential candidate John Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair in 2006 with Rielle Hunter, a filmmaker who made documentaries for Edwards’ campaign Web site.
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Manitoba highways, part two: is anybody listening?

By Matthew Burrows
A strange hush has descended over the question of safety on Manitoba’s highways following the deaths during Canada Day weekend of two cyclists.
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Arctic ice break confirms Byers’s analysis

By Matthew Burrows
Though the environment is often cited as a top concern by politicians of all stripes, UBC professor Michael Byers has put in the hard miles researching one place now in the news: the Canadian Arctic.
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Vancouver mayor’s chief of staff takes job at research network

By Carlito Pablo
Effective August 18, Vancouver Mayor Sam Sullivan's chief of staff, Daniel Fontaine, will serve as vice president of communications and marketing for MITACS.
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Vancouver-Kingsway MLA says Robertson win good for NDP

By Carlito Pablo
NDP Vancouver-Kingsway MLA Adrian Dix believes that a victory by former NDP Vancouver-Fairview MLA Gregor Robertson in this year’s Vancouver mayoral election would be a significant shot in the arm for the provincial NDP.
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Coun. Kim Capri won’t run provincially, seeks re-election

By Carlito Pablo
First-term city councillor Kim Capri says she has decided not to seek the B.C. Liberal nomination for the Vancouver-Fairview seat that was vacated on July 15 by former NDP MLA Gregor Robertson.
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Why does Canada stay callous and cold to the fate of Omar Khadr?

By Mike Cowie
This whole situation with Omar Khadr is so repulsive, shameful, and depressing. Thinking about how this poor Toronto-born kid has been treated makes me, as a Canadian, feel so embarrassed and sad.
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Park board to vote on increasing footprint at Stanley Park totem poles

By Matthew Burrows
Less than two years after approving an expansion of the Vancouver Aquarium footprint, park board commissioners are set to vote on increasing the footprint of the neighbouring Brockton Totem Poles Interpretative Centre in Stanley Park.
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Melissa De Genova returns to the NPA fold

By Charlie Smith
I suspected that park commissioner Al De Genova's fling with Vision Vancouver was probably over after he was trounced in his bid to become the party's mayoral nominee last month.
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Conservatism is just a sickness

By Mike Cowie
Your old road is Rapidly aging Please get out of the new one If you can't lend a hand For the times they are a-changin'
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Another National Newspaper Award for Margaret Wente?

By Charlie Smith
I'll let you in on one of the media's dirty little secrets.
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Ellen Woodsworth will seek COPE council nomination

By Charlie Smith
At a news conference at Science World today, former COPE councillor Ellen Woodsworth told reporters that she will seek a nomination to run again with COPE.
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Gregor Robertson names Raymond Louie as top adviser

By Charlie Smith
In a move that shows his former challenger plenty of respect, the Vision Vancouver mayoral candidate has announced that Louie will be his principal policy adviser and that Louie will chair the Vision Vancouver caucus.
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A premier who cares about kids would speak about peak oil

By Charlie Smith
The public-private partnership between the Gordon Campbell government and the Vancouver Sun is really putting the boots to the NDP's opposition to the carbon tax.
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Tom Hayden questions the "responsibility to protect"

By Charlie Smith
Last night, one of the most famous activists in the United States, Tom Hayden, gave a lecture at SFU's Harbour Centre campus, where he condemned the concept of the "responsibility to protect".
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Former NDP health minister Dennis Cocke dies

By Charlie Smith
The father of the B.C. Ambulance Service, Dennis Cocke, died on Wednesday at the age of 84.
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Frances Bula resigns from the Vancouver Sun

By Charlie Smith
The Vancouver Sun's veteran municipal-affairs reporter, Frances Bula, has quit her job at the CanWest MediaWorks metropolitan daily paper.
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John McCain stars in Madonna’s “Vogue” at the behest of Stephen Colbert

By Amanda Growe
The Colbert Report’s recent challenge to viewers to “Make McCain interesting” using footage of the Republican presidential candidate has resulted in a number of amusing clips. But one that parachutes McCain into the video for Madonna’s “Vogue” is truly impressive.
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David Emerson huffs and puffs about democracy

By Charlie Smith
What's happening in Zimbabwe is a disgrace. Everyone knows that a vicious thug by the name of Robert Mugabe stole the election from Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
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Gordon Campbell's carbon tax and Brian Mulroney's GST

By Charlie Smith
B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell has a few things in common with former Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney.
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The John Edwards standard and John McCain

This is the weekly update from Media Matters for America, an organization that monitors conservative biases in major U.S. media.
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Port Coquitlam mayor Scott Young's bio omits assault

By Charlie Smith
On weekends, I like perusing the council agendas in various municipalities. There is no meeting on Monday in Port Coquitlam, so I decided to check out the biography of Mayor Scott Young.
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