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A massive outburst of civil disobedience has forced BC to pause old growth logging in a sensitive valley known as Fairy Creek.

Greyhound Canada closure will be a ‘disaster’ for rural communities, experts say David Lao © THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld A Greyhound bus is driven out of the bus terminal in Ottawa Thursday May 7, 2020 in Ottawa. Greyhound announced it would be shutting down completely due to a precipitous drop in passengers caused by the pandemic. Several transportation experts say that Greyhound Canadas decision to shut down bus services permanently is going to have a compounded effe...

The plague of pandemic puppies has only made a bad situation worse. Until some brave politicians decide to limit dog ownership, prohibit retractable leashes, increase animal-control bylaw enforcement and impose other strict measures, the dog problem will persist and worsen. Brian Mason Central Saanich is the place to be Watching and reading the bickering and controversies taking place in one or two other jurisdictions in our Capital Regional District, plus shootings, beatings, robberies, i...

iPolitics By iPolitics. Published on Apr 23, 2021 1:00am Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured speaking to reporters in September 2020, delivered her budget this week. (Andrew Meade/iPolitics) Rebel Media, she may not have been prepared for site co-founder Ezra Levant to declare it the “worst budget in Canadian history,” and “a laundry list of socialist dreams that are stowing away in this crisis.” After going through all 724 pages of the “monstrous budget document�...

Print Edition: October 24, 2012 The Defend Our Coast protest unites its members against the proposed Enbridge pipeline and expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline and against the tankers that would have to be introduced to the coastline if these large energy companies are successful in their bid for expansion. They are calling out the Harper government’s anti-environment campaign, demanding that First Nations rights be respected and attempting to steer British Columbia in the direction of a m...

(Pixabay)                  Welcome to this weeks Chutes & Ladders, our roundup of hirings, firings and retirings throughout the industry. Please send the good word—or the bad—from your shop to Fraiser Kansteiner, and we will feature it here at the end of each week. Another GSK vaccine exec jumps ship for biotech CEO role GlaxoSmithKline Amir Reichman is stepping down. Reichman is leaving his post as head of global vaccines engineering core technology at GSK to eventu...