GEORGE: Shifting from a ‘having’ mode to a ‘being’ mode
OPINION “To be is to do.” — Socrates “To do is to be.” — Sartre…
GEORGE: Everything is political, even nature
OPINION I often wonder how we got to this place. Not this lovely province, but…
GEORGE: The unsustainable costs of pollution
OPINION Last week I attempted to answer the question "Why should Canadians care about sustainability?"…
GEORGE: Why we should care about sustainability
OPINION Earth Day is one of the times when I post my favourite definition of…
GEORGE: Playing pipeline politics and getting played
OPINION The Kinder Morgan drama continues. Pipeline politics have dominated the week in the national…
GEORGE: Let cooler heads prevail in Kinder Morgan drama
Well, it has been an exceptionally exciting week so far for the Kinder Morgan pipeline,…
GEORGE: Climate change has put our civilization at risk, not the planet
OPINION No, this is not another rant about climate change and the world's underwhelming response…
GEORGE: Now is the time to act on the B.C. wildfire threat
OPINION British Columbia has now tallied up the financial costs of last year's brutal fire…
GEORGE: The liberty and liability of employee drug testing
OPINION Once again the federal government finds itself investigating the possibility of bringing forward legislation…
GEORGE: Kinder Morgan, the little pipeline that couldn’t
OPINION Remember Northern Gateway? That was the pipeline that was supposed to feed tankers who…
GEORGE: When it comes to wild salmon, all values matter
Last week the Washington State Senate banned "non-native marine finfish aquaculture", a fancy way of…
GEORGE: Trudeau’s socks? What is truly important and why do we never discuss it?
OPINION Remember the 2015 federal election? That was the one that could be pretty much…
GEORGE: Gun control and politics as usual
OPINION Gun control is an issue that every politician and every political party on the…
GEORGE: Cannabis 101
OPINION We are a generation who gets to live through the end of a prohibition.…
GEORGE: The human cost of inertia
OPINION "By continuing to provide timely, accurate data to the public, and policy and decision-makers…