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Canada is super chill about com­mercial drones

Unlike the US, Canada is pretty lax about commercial drone use. Wildlife scientists, filmmakers, and real estate photographers (to name a few) have taken advantage of these flying robots in Canadian airspace.

commercial drones, drones, Langara, quadcopters, Transport Canada, UFOs, Vancouver, VICE

Why do the resi­dents of Victoria, BC buy more sex toys than any other place in Canada?

Grey, wet vibes in Canada’s sex toy capital.

British Columbia, Chicktoria, dildos, NSFW, old people, sex toys, Vancouver Island, vibrators, VICE, Victoria

The RCMP and CSIS are creeping on environ­mentalists

Heavily redacted documents released in November show that Canadian spies ‘monitored’ opponents of the Enbridge Northern Gateway through social media, blogs and a storytelling workshop at a church in Kelowna, B.C.

creepy, CSIS, Dogwood, Enbridge, energy, Kelowna, Kinder Morgan, Northern Gateway, pipelines, RCMP, security, spying, Trans Mountain, Vancouver, Vancouver Observer, VICE, Will Horter

BC’s ‘other’ multi-billion dollar energy projects

Most Canadians are vaguely aware that Enbridge is planning a massive pipeline expansion through northern British Columbia. But there are two other megaprojects in BC—one more costly, the other more risky—flying under the radar.

alberta, bitumen, British Columbia, Burnaby, Enbridge, energy, Kinder Morgan, oilsands, pipelines, Site C, Vancouver, VICE

The spill that keeps on spilling

Eight months and nearly two million litres of spilled bitumen later, Canadian energy company CNRL hasn’t figured out how to stop four mysterious leaks in northeastern Alberta.

alberta, Beaver Lake Cree Nation, BLCN, Canadian Natural Resources Limited, CNRL, cold lake, energy, First Nations, oil spill, oilsands, steam injection, VICE

Doctors in BC can no longer prescribe heroin

There’s at least one recorded casualty in the fight over prescription heroin in British Columbia. Back in September, B.C. doctors won approval from Health Canada to prescribe diacetylmorphine—the active ingredient in heroin—to 20 hardcore addicts in Vancouver. That decision lasted two weeks.

drug policy, Gabor Mate, heroin, prescription heroin, Vancouver, VICE

Chuck Strahl oversaw govern­ment spies while registered as an Enbridge lobbyist

Like those underemployed twenty-somethings the internet loves to ridicule, former cabinet minister Chuck Strahl has to hustle a few side jobs to get the bills paid. “I’m not independently wealthy,” he told the National Post earlier this month, when questioned about his work as both an energy lobbyist and a government spy watchdog.

Chuck Strahl, CSEC, CSIS, Enbridge, spying, VICE

An oil spill in Cold Lake, Alberta can’t stop, won’t stop

Over 1.5 million litres of heavy crude has seeped out of the ground at a military base in northeastern Alberta. Regulators aren’t sure of the cause or when the spill will end.

alberta, Beaver Lake Cree Nation, bitumen, cold lake, oil sands, oil spill, tar sands, VICE

The B.C. govern­ment trusts Nestlé with the province’s fresh water

B.C. hasn’t bothered to update a century-old law that allows multinational corporations like Nestlé to take water without measuring, reporting or paying for it. You’re welcome, billionaires.

billionaires, British Columbia, groundwater, Nestlé, VICE, water

Welcome!

Sarah Berman’s writing has appeared in Adbusters, Maclean’s, the Globe and Mail, the Vancouver Sun and many others. A lifelong supporter of independent and alternative press, Sarah has contributed multimedia to nonprofits like Journalists for Human Rights, Megaphone Magazine and Paper Tiger TV.

Get in touch at sarah (dot) berman (at) vice (dot) com.

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