BY: MICHAEL LYONS Canadian press and environmental groups are reporting that a leaked 2014 report by the federal and national police body, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) describes the national security threat of an “anti-petroleum movement.” In the face…
Between cashing oil sands paycheques and traditional hunting, Fort McKay is sleeping with the devil
BY: CONNOR BRIAN The first thing I noticed was the heavy taste of sulphur on my tongue. As the twin-engine plane jerked up and down, my eyes ranged across the black vastness of the Athabasca Oil Sands, and I thought…
Why politics has become a dirty word
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Youth of today speak of the Canadian political system as if it has never belonged to them. Today we face a world characterized by forecasts of environmental catastrophe and a growing social inequality preserved by insatiable…
The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline is a domestic project with global consequences
BY: TYLER FYFE PHOTOGRAPHY: CONNOR BRIAN Economy is not the opposite of environment. Profit is not synonymous with prosperity. Our idea of progress is its definition. The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline was approved June 17th 2014, marking the beginning of the…