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The Political History of Cap and Trade. How an unlikely mix of environmentalists and free-market conservatives hammered out the strategy known as cap-and-trade John B. Henry was hiking in Maine's Acadia National Park one August in the 1980s when he first heard his friend C. Boyden Gray talk...

How much do you pay locally at the pumps? Feel like it's highway robbery? Be glad your aren't in Canada's Greenest City. Currently it is $1.31 per litre in Metro Vancouver. What are you paying?

When it comes to Climate Change there is "On Record" and then there is "Long Term Reality". After 350 years of the coldest era in modern man's history we are undeniably warming up and are currently still 0.5C short of the Holocene Interglacial average but is it because of man and CO2? CO2...

Iron Workers and Steel Workers finally gave up on flogging a dead horse. VICTORIA — B.C.’s Ironworkers threw their support behind Premier Christy Clark on Wednesday, attacking their old allies in the NDP for failing to support their jobs and criticizing the B.C. Federation of Labour for its new...

It's not as easy as you may think. I've been looking over the application process and using the self assement utilty to if I qualify with the basics. So far I failed the Express Entry requirements using my age, as a US citizen requesting permanent status to live and work in New Brunswick...

By 6 seconds!!! What a loser. North Vancouver runner's 100-mile race ends in confusion, heartbreak 'I've covered a lot of races ... and this is one of the saddest moments I've ever witnessed in sports' Yeeeeeah. Sad. North Vancouver runner's 100-mile race ends in confusion, heartbreak -...

An explosion late Wednesday evening in Saskatoon caused damage to the exterior of the provincial court house. Investigators believe an improvised explosive device was detonated just after 11 p.m. CT. Witnesses reported a fire outside Kilborn Place building followed by a small blast. No...

POLICE in Antwerp have arrested a suspect terrorist wearing camouflage who tried to run people over in a busy shopping area using a car – a day after the deadly attack in London. Cops in the Belgian capital reportedly foiled the plot and detained the 39-year-old man, who is a French national of...

Please create a new section on Canadian Content for the pussies. Name it something catchy like Kitty Korner, The Litter Box or go with a Canadiana bi-lingual name like Chat Chat.

It's devastating me,' says Len Van Heest, who blames his bipolar disorder for his criminal convictions. A 59-year-old B.C. man who had lived in Canada since he was a baby has been deported to the Netherlands because of his criminal offences, which he says were due to his mental illness. "This...

Imagine if you will an oil and gas pipeline company whose workers move into Army Corps of Engineers land in the middle of summer and establish an illegal campsite. Imagine next that said oil and gas pipeline company then sends out a nationwide call to action inviting non-employees from all parts...

VANCOUVER - A report from the Fraser Institute says British Columbia's carbon tax is no longer revenue neutral. The study, co-authored by Charles Lammam, director of fiscal studies at the right-wing research institute, says the B.C. government no longer cuts other taxes to roughly equal new...

Where are the pusski babushkas? MOSCOW -- In Russia, giving one's spouse a slap is nothing extraordinary for many people. This week, the Russian parliament is expected to take a step closer toward decriminalizing it altogether. Battery is a criminal offence in Russia, but nearly 20 per cent of...

A salt and moonbattery caused by Global Warming*. Mayor Gregor Nutbar Roberts jetted off to Tropics in fear for his life. *Video may disturb some viewers. Discretion is advised. The City of Vancouver is handing out new salt supplies to residents on Thursday. But it seems like the salt is...

The UN has dropped the superhero Wonder Woman as an ambassador for empowering girls and women after a brief stint that drew widespread criticism. The campaign around the comic book character, who turned 75 this autumn, lasted for less than two months. Among its key aims were challenging female...

Council approves 'fentanyl tax' to combat overdose crisis Opposition councillors argue tax is accepting download from senior governments MIKE HOWELL / VANCOUVER COURIER DECEMBER 13, 2016 03:39 PM overdose Vancouver firefighters, seen here responding to an overdose Tuesday in the Downtown...

And go on Provincial welfare because it's 2016. Since last November, more than 22,000 government-supported Syrian refugees have settled in Canada. Promised financial support for a year from the federal government, thousands of families are now about to be cut off, leaving provinces to pick up...

Almost 500% increase in number of people being detained at border crossings, CBSA says Canada's borders have become less porous in the wake of a CBC News investigation that revealed a major security gap in the way passengers were being screened before being allowed into Canada. In the past 12...