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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...
Environmentalists attack Hydro line route
WINNIPEG - Environmental groups counter-attacked Wednesday in the growing war of words over Manitoba Hydro’s plan to...
World Rivers Day Blessing of the Salmon and Tour of the Qualicum Beach Salmon Forest to Canada’s 3rd tallest Sitka Spruce
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia – The eleventh annual BC Rivers Day Celebration in the Qualicum Beach Salmon Forest...
BC Government demands $9,000 from Wilderness Committee to access public records
In response to a Freedom of Information (FOI) request by the Wilderness Committee regarding budget cuts to provincial...
Tembec closes the door on recycling paper
The province's only paper mill won't use recycled newspapers in its paper production, a move which may have little...
East side favoured for Bipole III
WINNIPEG - The Canadian Taxpayers Federation and hydro, engineering and environmental experts hope to sway public...
Meditation Lake camp plans cancelled
WINNIPEG - A plan by Tim Hortons to open a youth camp in the Whiteshell has been scuttled by the province due to water...
Camp plan cancelled for Meditation Lake
A proposed $10-million camp near Meditation Lake in Whiteshell Provincial Park has been scrapped by the Manitoba...
Plans for Tim's kids camp nixed
Province cites water-quality issue The province has cancelled a plan to build a Tim Hortons kids camp on the shores of...
Group finds Whiteshell clams dying
A local environmental group is looking for a culprit after discovering thousands of dead clams washed up on the shore...
Mass clam die‑off found in Whiteshell
An environmental group is raising the alarm against clear cutting the forest after a mass die-off of freshwater clams...
TV News Story ‑ BC's unprotected transboundary species
See this in-depth TV news story about how BC's provincial government is utterly failing to protect the province's...
Oily beaches? No Tanks!
Pamela Anderson expresses her opposition to oil tankers shipping crude oil out of Vancouver harbour. Join the No Tanks...
Keep loggers away from caribou habitat: activists
Two environmental groups say logging could destroy a newly discovered caribou habitat and they want the province to...
Logging would harm caribou herd: environmentalists
WINNIPEG - Two environmental groups say logging could destroy a newly-discovered caribou habitat up north and they...
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