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Wild salmon: Culture of the salmon crash
The Salmon Talks brought people out on Saturday night. Poets, dancers, singers, speakers and a puppeteer launched the...
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Vancouver councillor Andrea Reimer resigns as Wilderness Committee executive director
Vision Vancouver councillor Andrea Reimer is leaving her other job as the executive director of the Wilderness...
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Landmark court decision backs first nation's concern about caribou
The B.C. Supreme Court has done what the provincial government would not: It has halted work on a coal mine project...
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British Columbia
Wilderness Committee strongly opposes allowing off‑road vehicles into CRD parks
The Wilderness Committee is urging the Capital Regional District (CRD) to maintain their ban on off-road vehicles...
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Manitoba
McFadyen can't talk the line on BiPole 3, runs from the truth

Hugh McFadyen, the leading proponent for disrupting on of the world's greatest intact forests with a hydro line, was...

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The BC Government Unveils Pay More Get Less Approach to Parks
Last Friday, a day of the week typically reserved for announcing unpopular decisions, the BC government quietly...
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Teetering on the brink of extinction
The coastal Douglas fir is endangered, raising questions about why a small stand is soon to be logged A March gale...
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Federal Review Panel for proposed mine at Fish Lake, Tsilhqot'in Territory

The Canadian Federal Review Panel for the Prosperity Gold-Copper Mine Project at Fish Lake in Tsilhqot'in territory...

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Lobby groups target province on BiPole issue
Canadian, Manitoban and U.S. groups launched a new eduction blitz today as part of an effort to urge the Manitoba...
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Okanagan Indian Band Seeks Water Protection
When we joined members of the Okanagan Band, Okanagan Nation Alliance, and chief and council of numerous other First...
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Manitoba
Sylvia Lake, Whiteshell Park Management, Tim Horton development

The plan to develop a new corporate youth camp in Whiteshell Park is continuing. A couple weeks ago the government...

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Worlds Largest Douglas Fir Under Threat from Logging
The lone sentinel of the Red Creek Fir epitomizes all the social and environmental woes faced by the proud citizens of...
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Wilderness Committee promotes South Fraser Witness Trail with political twist

The gravel road shaping down from Surrey’s shiny new single-family housing in Fraser Heights is surprisingly steep...

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Weakened Environmental Standards Promote Coal Mines, Climate Change
The federal government’s announcement that it will “streamline” Environmental Assessments for the resource industry...
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Government promotes 'dirty fuel,' activists say
Not enough on climate change, group charges The provincial budget helps "dirty fuel" at the cost of clean energy, says...

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