Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Marquez have talked a big game over the past few months. Each one has insisted that, because of a mutual distrust for judges and how bouts are scored, they will aim to knock the other out this Saturday. It’s not going to happen. We’ve seen Pacquiao and Marquez do battle for 36 rounds. We’ve seen...

The BC Liberals and their friends in the corporate and media communities, have tried to sell the public on their supposed “business” abilities…unlike those “socialists” on the other side. And yet, after the voters ordered them to get rid of the HST, they are incapable of  returning for a full NINETEEN MONTHS to a provincial...

Something is happening in Canada that seems, in the context of a majority Harper government, counter-intuitive. Harper continues implementing his right-wing revolution by fiat, and Preston Manning’s “democracy” institute says Canadians actually want “less” government and more individual responsibility. Yet a flurry of polls...

On a soggy Monday afternoon, hundreds of people rallied against the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline from the tar sands in Alberta to Kitimat, British Columbia. The protest was lead by the Heiltsuk people, whom proudly describe themselves as the care takers of their territorial lands and waters, in the Great Bear...

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It might be useful for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to read a U.S. state department cable from Israel released by Wikileaks. It reveals that talk of Iran's imminent production of nuclear weapons goes back to the early 1990s: "The head of the MFA's [Ministry of Foreign Affairs] strategic affairs division recalled that GOI...

Environmentalist David Suzuki: 'There's been a drumbeat of all kinds of weird weather events, and [Canadians] understand that something weird is happening and they really want some action,(CBC) Suzuki said. He pointed to the destruction of B.C. forests by pine beetles surviving warmer winters and the series of freak storms ...

The Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite has been revolving about the world for the last two decades. The satellite arrived at what NASA called "the end of a productive scientific life" a full six years back. By Saturday, UARS is expected to come falling back to Earth. Resource for this article: How UARS has lived Orbit has ...

When I first seen this place my heart was drawn by the wonderment of the natural world that seems abundent in these parts.To my amazment I found that there is no real cultural base for first nation people here that have any ties to the original peoples who have lived in this area since time and memorial..The only "natives" ...

Under the HST there is an extra7% added to restaurant food,basic cable TV and telephone,home repairs, maintenance and renovations,domestic airline tickets,concert and sports tickets, haircuts, gym memberships,realtor fees, new homes over $525.000,home inspections and appraisals,vitamins,massage therapy,healthfood store...