One-term NPA councillor B.C. Lee will not seek a second term on city council in November’s municipal election.

B.C. Liberal whip Randy Hawes says that the busloads of people who were “probably offered a free lunch to show up and protest” a proposed power project in the upper Pitt River valley illustrate why the government shouldn’t pay any attention to the number of protesters who fill a public meeting.

Politics is too serious a business to leave to politicians, according to ecowarrior and soon-to-be 80-year-old grandmother Betty Krawczyk, who wants to see more activists running for public office.

Businessman Peter Ormesher has withdrawn his bid for the mayoral nomination of the Non-Partisan Association.

This is from the Vancouver Peak Oil Executive (permission to reprint from Jon Cooksey)

By Helen Spiegelman

On the Georgia Straight's home page, you'll see Gwynne Dyer's latest column on oil prices, in which he predicts they will level off and start to decline.

Barack Obama's pastor has shown a different side than the angry caricature that has been replayed endlessly on YouTube and on TV newscasts.

Here's a letter that Cambie Street resident Jillian Skeet wrote to Premier Gordon Campbell concerning construction of the Canada Line: April 23rd, 2008 Premier Gordon Campbell Legislative Buildings, Victoria, BC Dear Premier Campbell, As a Cambie resident, I have both experienced and witnessed the pain all along Cambie Street as a result of Canada Line construction. I have spent most of my life fighting against

Barely a month after promising to prevent hydro entrepreneurs from constructing a power line through Pinecone Burke Provincial Park, the provincial government appears determined as ever to privatize “new” hydro development throughout British Columbia.

On April 23, 63 nongovernmental organizations from around the world made a plea to the United Nations and international leaders. They asked for help for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

By Helen Spiegelman

For years, right-wing journalists have been dismissing peak-oil theory as a bunch of hogwash.

Across the planet, the price of basic foods are soaring. In many cases, the result has been violence.

B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell explained his views on politics and religion at Vancouver's 2008 Vaisakhi Parade.