Q&A: Chris Arsenault interviews MALALAI JOYA, author and Afghan parliamentarian VANCOUVER, Canada, Nov 20 (IPS) - In the aftermath of national elections widely condemned as fraudulent, the United States and its allies are wondering what to ...
CANADA: VANCOUVER, Oct 20 (IPS) - The provincial government in Alberta, Canada is threatening to unleash its counterterrorism plan if activists continue using civil disobedience to protest the tar sands, Canada's fastest source of ...
ENERGY-CANADA: DAWSON CREEK, British Columbia, Aug 30 (IPS) - The once serene road to Tim and Linda Ewert's organic farm near Tomslake in northeastern British Columbia has become a mess of dust clouds, drilling rigs and hordes of pick-up ...
ENERGY: POUCE COUPE, British Columbia, Aug 27 (IPS) - North America's largest natural gas corporation hopes a one-million-dollar bounty will take down the saboteur who is blowing up their pipelines in northern Canada. Since October 2008, ...
Q&A: Chris Arsenault interviews economist JEFF RUBIN VANCOUVER, Jun 15 (IPS) - Sitting in the restaurant of Vancouvers posh Fairmount Waterfront Hotel, the former chief economist for one of Canadas largest banks doesnt seem like the ...
ENERGY: VANCOUVER, Canada, Jun 1 (IPS) - A report from one of the worlds top energy consultancies says oil production in Canadas tar sands could see a five-fold increase by 2035. "The oil sands have moved from the fringe to the center of ...
POLITICS: VANCOUVER, Feb 20 (IPS) - On his first foreign visit as U.S. president, Barack Obama's rhetoric of "hope" and "change" came face to face with the hard, divisive policy realities of climate change from Canada's tar sands, a ...
OIL SANDS-PART 3: FT. MCMURRAY, Oct 20 (IPS) - As Canada's tar sands extraction expands full steam ahead, a perfect storm of internal and external opposition could derail some of the voracious growth at the world's largest energy ...
OIL SANDS-PART 2: FT. MCMURRAY, Oct 17 (IPS) - The wheels of the Caterpillar 797B, the world's largest truck, are always going round and round at Shell Canada's Albian Sands mine. The massive dump trucks, with wheels standing twice the ...
OIL SANDS-PART 1: FT. MCMURRY, Canada, Oct 16 (IPS) - The sun rises in a bright, red line over flat land, small lakes, boreal forest and peat bogs as our small double engine plane bumps through early morning turbulence between Edmonton and ...
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