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Media Releases
British Columbia
Gas lobbyists talked to province more than 750 times since election
VANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh AND səlilwətaɬ TERRITORIES — Fracking companies, LNG groups and their...
Media Releases
British Columbia
Remaining cutblocks in caribou habitat halted in Argonaut Creek
The B.C. government and its logging agency BC Timber Sales (BCTS) has announced they have pulled three more cutblocks...
News
Manitoba
Tories pursue private partnerships for parks: document
The Tory government had been mulling a private model for Manitoba parks months before it finalized a 21-year lease...
Videos
British Columbia
TV News Story - Endangered old-growth forests still being logged despite BC government promises
This is a TV news story about areas of endangered old-growth forest totalling four times the size of Vancouver that...
Media Releases
British Columbia
New mapping shows approved or pending logging permits in at least 50,000 hectares of BC’s target deferral area
Stalled old-growth deferral process leaves irreplaceable at-risk forest on the chopping block, some areas already...
Columns
British Columbia
Let’s face climate disaster together
Late Tuesday night, farmers in Sumas Prairie — in the Fraser Valley in southern BC and on the territory of the Semá:th...
Media Releases
Manitoba
Park destruction by mining industry escalating
Never-before-authorized drilling in warm weather devastates protected moose habitat in Nopiming Provincial Park...
News
British Columbia
The Power and Peril of Injunctions
Where protests arise in BC, this legal weapon tends to be deployed. What are court-ordered injunctions? And why is one...
News
British Columbia
Old-growth deferrals and the elephant in the room: we’re out of trees to cut thanks to failed provincial policies
No one should be surprised that the British Columbia government’s decision to potentially defer logging in 26,000...
News
British Columbia
Torrance Coste: Conservation shouldn’t be scapegoat for forest industry woes
It’s time for the environmental movement to demand war-time-level investment in economic transition for forest...
Videos
Manitoba
Video: The difference your voice has made for Turtle Mountain Provincial Park
Cuts to environmental regulation have been devastating under the Progressive Conservative government in Manitoba—...
Videos
Video: SAVING THE ARGENTA FACE
In BC's west Kootenay country this 6,000 hectare forest is known as the Argenta Face Forest. Come along with the...
News
British Columbia
Comment: Earth to Horgan — climate action means taking on fossil fuels
A commentary by the climate campaigner at the Wilderness Committee. Premier John Horgan loves to tout his NDP...
Videos
British Columbia
Webinar: Understanding the new BC old growth announcement
The BC government has just made an announcement on old-growth forests, and while it includes some encouraging pieces...
Media Releases
British Columbia
New approach on old-growth heavy on good intentions, weak on immediate protections
Maps and old-growth classification better reflects crisis but government has failed to ensure protection of currently...
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