Reading Time: 6 minutes We know good safety practices from our grandmother – but are we courageous and persistent enough to follow them?
Author: Allan Bonner
History’s industrial strategy haunts us today
Reading Time: 4 minutes First came 50 years of progress. Then came 50 years of dead fish, stagnant water, methylmercury poisoning, silt buildup and dams collapsing
Fake news? Every era had its perpetrators
Reading Time: 5 minutes Early newspapers were often more interested in expressing the opinions of the owners than the facts
Dam dynamics often fail fish
Reading Time: 5 minutes It seems strange how little we know about fish, their habits and whether the help we’re trying to give them is actually helpful
Is dam removal the wave of the future?
Reading Time: 5 minutes Research suggests it makes more ecological and economic sense to dismantle dams than to restore or maintain them
Pierre would not be pleased with Justin’s folly
Reading Time: 5 minutes Judging by the amount of money at stake, and cabinet and family involvement, this may be the largest scandal in Canadian history
Our pandemic response seems like a guessing game
Reading Time: 6 minutes From suspect modelling to poor stockpiling to a lack of perspective on historic events, we failed to be ready for COVID-19
Light finally fading on huge hydroelectric projects
Reading Time: 4 minutes There are serious questions about the usefulness of two of the last remaining big dam projects at both ends of Canada
Thomas King exposed inconvenient Indigenous truths
Reading Time: 5 minutes The author is funny but not fooling around in The Inconvenient Indian, an examination of the movement to eliminate the Indigenous
Is neoliberalism sinful or our salvation?
Reading Time: 5 minutes It’s difficult to know for sure since academics and economists want to hide behind jargon rather than offering concrete analysis