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Enbridge: “It’s a path to our Future”?

a “slick” 5-million-dollar  media campaign.

Drier Summers in Vancouver will require adaptations to conserve water?

Storm drains, parking lots and roads will need to be modified to replenish aquifers

Red Deer River now Black Deer River? Pipeline comes “A-Sundre”

Pipeline leak spills 475,000 litres of crude into pristine wilderness area north of Sundre, Alberta

Something Fishy?

Canadian Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield tells Parliament that municipalities support gutting of Fisheries Protection Act despite near-unanimous opposition.

“Out of the garbage-can, into the Fire-Hall?”

Port Moody citizen snaps photo of bears dining on fire-hall’s unlocked garbage in contravention of citys “Bear-aware” bylaws.

Animal Liberation Front “comes to Pappas”

Four Vancouver fur stores, including Pappas, splashed with red paint by anti-fur brigade. {Pappas “furmilias”}

David Booth: “He shoots, he doesn’t score!”

Vancouver Canuck boasts on Twitter of killing trophy bear using unsporting “bear-baiting” technique.

Flap over Foie Gras: Ducking Cruelty?

Chefs are at war with animal rights activists over California’s looming duck-liver ban

Penguins Take Up Residence in Vancouver Aquarium

A clue that we are in for a cool, wet summer?

Giving new meaning to the term “Fossil Fuel”!

Early carbon “emissions”: Researchers calculate that Dinosaur methane gas warmed earth’s atmosphere