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Full steam ahead for BC offshore oil drilling

by Kevin Potvin

No voices of caution or reason were invited to a $500-a-head meeting of government and energy industry leaders licking their chops and gripping their forks as they gaze out over the beautiful British Columbia coastline

Once we get to the point where it takes one unit of oil energy to bring the next unit of oil energy to market, the oil industry is effectively dead, no matter how high the price goes or how much oil there remains underground.

Same song, different tune

by Maria Calleja

Anti-war activist groups in Vancouver struggle against divisiveness and look for the common goals that bind them

The activists also felt that the progress of Stop War was being limited by a bureaucracy of labour unions and status-quo leftists that did not want widespread change. “ Anti-war groups supporting the NDP are building a low-pressure movement ” Bundock stated.

Nobody's responsible

by Andrea Reimer

The provincial health system is designed to obscure accountability. As a result, fixing problems takes longer

Creating elected, locally accountable boards that decide how tax dollars are spent on the provision of public services is not a newfangled idea.

No way to bomb the White House

The Assassination of Richard Nixon misses the mark of a true tragedy, which always leaves room for nobility

by Junius

The end of free speech

by Rafe Mair

This article was first commissioned by Ryerson Review of Journalism, then subsequently spiked, reasons not given.

Cancer with a conscience

by Michael Nenonen

The human species may well be like a cancer unto the Earth. But that's not anything to necessarily cry about - we have the capacity to put ourselves into remission, for example

America's Afghanistan

by Kevin Potvin

The best comparison to make for the American adventure in Iraq is not Vietnam, but Afghanistan. And America's future could be most like Russia's in the 1990s

Turner's Movies

reviewed by Scott Turner

Nobody Knows and Bad Education

Books We're Reading This Month

reviewed by Kevin Potvin

Terror and Civilization; The Gruesome Acts of Capitalism; and Second-Rate Nation

Letters to the Republic

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