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Warren Bell

Warren Bell is a family physician who lives in Salmon Arm, British Columbia.  He is Past Founding President of Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

Stephen Harper's deadly toys

It's finally happened.   Our warlike Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, and his equally pugnacious sidekick Peter MacKay, have finally declared why they want to wear their six-guns in public....

Inside Stephen Harper's political theatre

At the Joint Review Panel hearings on the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway oil sands pipeline, everyone was on script.