Despite an estimated 1500 protesters clogging traffic outside BC Place and the pall of an athlete's death, the 2010 Winter Olympics began with dazzling performances by a star-studded cast of Canadians ...

Approximately 350 people packed South Vancouver’s Fraserview Hall for the Vancouver and District Labour Council’s annual International Women’s Day Dinner this past Friday night. “I’m thrilled to see ...

Environmental activist Rod Marining knows the feel of steel handcuffs on his wrists. As co-founder of Greenpeace International, he sailed aboard Greenpeace ships campaigning against French atmospheric ...

BP's recently released "BP Energy Outlook 2030" report claims that a dramatic rise in new unconventional sources of oil -- tight oil, tar sands and NGLs -- will solve the "peak oil" problem. These new ...

According to the Postmedia presentation, newspapers would work in partnership with CAPP to put the spotlight on Canada's oil industry. "What really drives Canada's economic engine? Energy, of course," ...

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What we saw at the Closing Ceremony of the 2010 Games was very different than what we saw in the Opening Ceremony. In retrospect, the Opening Ceremonies seem overwrought. Tonight, on the other hand ...

“Age,” according to Michel de Montaigne, “imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.” And he knew whereof he spoke by the time he penned that, in the late 16 th century, when his ...

Multi-award winning author Steven Galloway looks exactly the same in person as he does in his book jacket photo: smart, intense, slightly nerdy and curious. As one of Canada’s rising literary talents ...

It’s an innocuous bridge, not pretty to look at, but vital: the Vedder Bridge connects the cities of Abbotsford and Chilliwack over the Vedder Canal, which flows into the Fraser River. If a new ...

“Basically, they are trying to undermine the anti-pipeline wing of the environmental movement by associating it ... with radicalism,” said Gary Kinsman, a Laurentian University sociology professor and ...