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Antifluff. Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says he wants nothing to do with Ottawa’s plan for a national minimum price on greenhouse gas emissions as he raises the political heat ahead of the First Ministers climate summit scheduled for Vancouver in two weeks. In an interview Thursday, Mr...

WTF? This goes against all the gibberish about Harper's Govt not giving a flying f-ck about a rolling environmental donut. VANCOUVER — Taseko Mines Ltd. is suing the federal government in B.C. Supreme Court and seeking unspecified compensation for a 2014 decision that blocked development of a...

CALGARY – TransAlta Corp. said Thursday future investment in Alberta is “on hold” as its CEO vented her frustrations that the province has yet to pick a negotiator for the phase out of coal-fired power. “We thought we’d have a negotiator appointed by the end of January; it’s now the end of...

With Ontario’s 2016 budget set to land next week, all eyes are on how the province plans to balance the remaining $7.5-billion deficit by the end of next fiscal year. But a new report is offering a different narrative, looking back at how the provincial deficit ballooned to that amount in the...

But but but...it's "extreme weather".

It's cheap. Louisiana shrimp raised in Thai sewage.

The global warming fad will pass quicker than the super hero movie fad.

Money for whirly gigs, EV charging stations, corporate subsidies but none for health care. TORONTO - The Ontario Nurses' Association is sounding the alarm about layoffs of Registered Nurses by cash-strapped hospitals, and warns patients will pay the price. The union, which represents 60,000...

Americans bought about 13,000 battery-powered and plug-in hybrid vehicles in December – one of the best months on record for those kinds of cars and trucks. But that’s only about four days worth of sales of the Ford Motor Co. F-Series pickup, underlining how difficult it is to convince drivers...

New app links junkie homeless, junkie vulnerable with available services in Vancouver Arriving at a shelter after the last bed is filled or last hot meal is served can be devastating to someone in need. What a drag man. A new, web-based app – the mobile version is coming – has launched to link...

PORT RENFREW, B.C. -- British Columbia's coroners' service has confirmed that a foot discovered on a Vancouver Island shoreline is in fact human. A hiker exploring Botanical Beach near Port Renfrew Sunday afternoon came across a running shoe containing a human foot in a sock. B.C. Coroners...

If Montreal doesn't want a pipeline, Montreal can be moved. This goes for anywhere and anyone who thinks they can stop industry, sh-t bears be damned. A man who literally lives on a gold mine has been ordered by a Quebec judge to leave his home. Ken Massé's childhood house is the last obstacle...

Final agreement reached to protect B.C.’s Great Bear Rainforest JUSTINE HUNTER BELLA BELLA, B.C. — The Globe and Mail Last updated Monday, Feb. 01, 2016 3:59PM EST The 20-year battle to protect the Great Bear Rainforest – the largest coastal temperate rainforest on the planet – is over, with...

A victory for the Western World in the economic war. ST PETERSBURG, Russia/DUBAI (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that OPEC's largest producer Saudi Arabia, had proposed oil production cuts of up to 5 percent in what would be the first global deal in over a decade to help clear a glut of...

There won't be a next famine. That strain of blight susceptible potato no longer exists.

The Saudi Arabian oil minister’s recent comment that the world’s largest petroleum producer sees a postfossil-fuel world in which his country becomes a solar-power superpower must have comforted climate activists that even the worst offenders can come around. After all, what could be more...

There are people who just say no to everything, and heaven knows there are plenty of those in B.C.' It' about time she grew a pair. Let's just hope it doesn't take 12 years for them to drop. Clark had sharp words Monday for what she calls the "forces of no" in British Columbia who mount...

We need a new bedtime scary story. If you listened to radione this afternoon around 5:30 they were discussing everything gets protested not because it is bad but simply because they are afraid of change. Crispy Clark set it all with comments on "The Forces of No" and their lack of any...

Eyes afeared, hep may hep may.

It doesn't jive with your typical geometric or exponential growth for some odd reason or did we stop putting CO2 into the atmosphere?