FastFacts: Manitoba’s At-Risk Youth

Gas prices to fuel vehicle ‘exodus’

CALGARY — It won’t mean the end of the traffic jam as we know it or
turn Deerfoot Trail into a lonely country road, but if a startling
prediction by two Canadian economists holds true, there will…

Oilsands vacation site tempts visitors with ‘toxic lakes’

Greenpeace has launched a tongue-in-cheek website touting the tourism potential of the Alberta oilsands.

Oilsands vacation site tempts visitors with ‘toxic lakes’

Greenpeace has launched a tongue-in-cheek website touting the tourism potential of the Alberta oilsands.

Carbon tax reaction

We asked Vancouver Sun online readers: Do you have plans for
your $100 ‘climate action dividend’?

Campbell steps into the breach

VICTORIA – The day began with what looked to be a serious
breach between the B.C. Liberals and the federal Conservatives, the
sometimes friendly political parties who disagree profoundly over
the…

B.C. prefers NDP’s carbon tax plan

British Columbians are almost evenly divided on whether
Premier Gordon Campbell’s new carbon tax is a good idea and the vast
majority prefer an alternative proposal put forward by the NDP, a
new poll…

A walk through a tunnel or two

In got really lucky. I happened to be online when an email sent to all local members of the Institute of Transport Engineers came into my inbox. It was an invitation to a site visit to the Canada Line construction site under False Creek. There were a very limited number of places, and as I [...]

Alberta’s mission: convert oil sands skeptics

Alberta’s government aims to educate Washington, D.C.’s powerful about the oil sands

Pay Dirt: Martian Soil Fit for Earthly Life [News]

Martian soil around NASA’s Phoenix Lander is slightly alkaline and has enough different minerals that it could support Earthly plants and–more to the point–microbes beneath the Martian surface, according to the first results from the probe’s wet chemistry experiment released today. [More]