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This Changes Everything author Naomi Klein says economy fuels climate crisis

The flesh of some moose near the tarsands of northern Alberta had turned green. One report told of 100,000 bats falling from Queensland, Australia, skies during record-breaking...

Methane poses huge climate threat to Earth

Today, industrial civilization has produced enough carbon dioxide to warm the planet and bring methane into the picture yet again.

COPE’s left front

In 2014, and beyond, COPE has to speak directly to the propertyless masses and propose actual, radical changes for people.

Is Canada prepared for climate refugees?

Exactly how many people will migrate globally is difficult to conclude in light of the many factors to consider.

Reconciliation is not only about the past

Today, as Vancouver observes the Week of Reconciliation, a statue of John “Gassy Jack” Deighton stands at the intersection of Water and Carrall streets.

BOV 2013: From a common thread, African kinship grows

Vancouver's African community is made up of people from dozens of countries within the African continent, African-Americans, Caribbean, and more.

The redevelopment of Heather Place and why Vancouver's housing crisis is worsening

Vancouverites know that this isn’t so much the inevitability of natural processes as it is the venality of unnatural profits and inflated bonuses.

Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection encourages exploration

With the near-total domination the Internet and social media in particular enjoy in our lives, it’s easy to draw some faulty conclusions.

Climate change realism requires lifting veil of denial

The evidence is overwhelming and convincing. Our actions are quickly changing the geochemistry of the planet.

Daniel Tseghay and Sean Antrim: Vancouver viaducts and learning from history

If the past gives us any insight, they are not the real reasons Vision wants to tear the viaducts down.