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If the Canadian government intends to meet First Nations in good faith, it must invite Earth back to the bargaining table

Canada looks and feels different lately.

Idling while Canada burns: lessons we can learn from First Nations

During last summer’s heat wave, a big delivery truck pulled up in front of the construction site across the street from my house.

What disappearing Arctic ice, the Mayan prophecy, and balloons could be telling us

Look around at what’s wrong on our planet today. Is this the best we can do?

Celia Brauer: What the Musqueam protest in Marpole should tell us about re-evaluating land ethics

The Provincial government says, “the situation is complicated in part by the fact that this is private land.” Yet when the land was being bought and sold after the settlers came,...

Celia Brauer: First Nations’ right to stop a pipeline: A watershed moment for all of us

It is an understatement to say the First Nations are opposed to the pipeline and tanker port.

Dear Natural Resource Minister Joe Oliver: Canadians may be smarter than you think!

Will we just leave a pile of waste for our kids to clean up with a few token trees and fish left for them to get by, or will we find some new creative ways of building a better...

Celia Brauer: Putting the “home” back in economics

Insights from the important trans-discipline of ecological economics (EE) may offer a potential path to salvation.

Celia Brauer: Coming to a courtroom near you—wild salmon versus aquaculture

The Cohen commission of inquiry into the collapse of the sockeye salmon runs in 2009 is the latest in a long string of similar investigations.

Celia Brauer: Where will the children play? When youth burn their own houses down

It hadn’t been 24 hours since the Stanley Cup riots of 2011 in Vancouver and we had already seen countless images.

Celia Brauer: If lots of community planning equals major density, count me out

These days, my neighbourhood near King Edward and Cambie is what the real estate agents call “hot”.