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Ontario move humbles Manitoba
Ontario has protected half its boreal forest from mining and logging, a move local environmentalists say puts Manitoba...
Provinces join forces to protect wilderness
Manitoba and Ontario joined forces Tuesday to protect a 9,400 square-kilometres swath of wilderness that straddles...
Tim's camp in bad taste: critics
PHOTO: Eric Reder (MARC GALLANT / FREE PRESS ARCHIVES) 300-bed facility not suitable for lake The pristine wilderness...
Province unveils controversial wilderness camp
PHOTO: Conservation Minister Stan Struthers outlines the details of a children's camp in the Whiteshell. (KEN...
Freedom of Information isn't free: Wilderness Committee billed $9,000
The Wilderness Committee says the cost of freedom of information is far from free. Acting on a tip that park rangers...
Tanker-traffic ban sought
Protesters see potential for 'devastating' Burrard Inlet spill A group of protesters waved placards outside a...
Enviro groups prepare opposition to kids' camp
WINNIPEG — Environmentalists plan to use a public meeting Thursday night to launch their fight against a Tim Horton...
Open house today on controversial kids' camp
WINNIPEG — The first of two public information sessions on a proposed Tim Horton children's camp to be developed on...
Meditation lake: Rangers toss out Whiteshell info table
WINNIPEG — PARK rangers pulled the plug on an information table set up by environmental activists in the Whiteshell...
Group demands province quash Tim Hortons' camp plans
Hundreds of letters protesting a children’s camp tentatively slated for Whiteshell Provincial Park are to be presented...
Kids camp fight comes to legislature
Meditation Lake poor choice, opponents say in letters Environmentalists opposed to a year-round youth camp on an...
Tim's camp on hold while water checked out
The Tim Hortons Children's Foundation says Meditation Lake in the Whiteshell remains the group's preferred site for a...
Tria Donaldson: Last thing B.C. needs is a lump of dirty coal
Georgia StraightBy Tria DonaldsonSeptember 23, 2010 My first memories of coal are tied very closely with the approach...
Thinking through the camp proposal
PHOTO: A timber wolf stares through the underbrush at Meditation Lake. (JOE.BRYKSA@FREEPRESS.MB.CA) Whiteshell park...
Environmentalists pan new road through Grass River provincial park
WINNIPEG - Local environmentalists and politicians say the Doer government has back-pedalled on new legislation that...
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