Tug crew guild member stands by claim that risky staffing does occur in Vancouver's port.

UNITED NATIONS - A long outstanding proposal to recognise the right to water as a basic universal human right is threatening to split the world's rich and poor nations.

The civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart's sentence was increased Thursday after an appeals court ruled that two years and four months of prison time was too light.

The CCPA-BC office released another Climate Justice Project brief today, this one finding that greenhouse gas emissions from exported coal and natural gas generate more than double the emissions from combustion within BC.

PRESSURE tests will determine whether experts have finally stopped the Gulf of Mexico oil leak, 86 days and 680 million litres after an oil rig explosion triggered America's worst environmental disaster.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has expressed opposition to the
possible nomination of Elizabeth Warren to head the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau, according to a source with knowledge of Geithner's
views.

WASHINGTON - The former Justice Department official who cowrote the so-called torture memos testified that the department did not sanction some of the harsh methods the CIA used against detainees during the George W.