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    Calgary Reconsidered

    Blog | Chris Turner | Tuesday, 11 Sep 2012
    Six truths about the city that’s no longer, simply, Cowtown Chris Turner I first came to know Calgary, as many do, driving along highways and broad suburban avenues, through the nowhere geography of...

    Life sciences and the commodification of everything

    Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 10 Sep 2012
    It was once the case that the term “life sciences” meant the scientific study of living organisms. It meant biology, zoology, ecology, and even bio-ethics. In what must have been a public relations...

    Stephen Harper and the melting Arctic

    Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 06 Sep 2012
    In what has become an annual media photo-op, Stephen Harper made his seasonal trek to Canada’s North in August.  The bravado of proclamations of “use it or lose it” Arctic sovereignty and flexing of...

    The shell game

    Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 22 Aug 2012
    The idea of a shell game is simple enough.  Three small shells or cups glide around a surface, hiding one small object.  Wikipedia notes that this game is an elaborate, if simple, confidence trick,...

    When it Comes to the Pipeline, Harper Talks in Circles

    Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 08 Aug 2012
    Yesterday in British Columbia, Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried to sound a note of reason on the subject of the increasingly unpopular proposal to build 1,100 kilometres of pipeline through the...

    British Columbia “firewall” anyone?

    Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 08 Aug 2012
    For anyone familiar with Stephen Harper’s role as a provincial rights advocate, the federal posturing on the Enbridge risky tanker and pipeline scheme is more than ironic. It is a 180 degree about...

    Restitution

    Blog | Elizabeth May | Friday, 03 Aug 2012
    A few weeks ago I talked to a Globe and Mail reporter about the possibilities for cross party cooperation. I shared with her that (my own opinion, and not a party decision) that a good place to start...
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