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Videos
Manitoba
Video: Camp Morning Star wins 2020 Eugene Rogers Environmental Award
The Wilderness Committee is awarding the 2020 Eugene Rogers Environmental Award to Camp Morning Star, a cultural and...
Media Releases
Manitoba
Camp Morning Star wins 2020 Eugene Rogers Environmental Award
WINNIPEG (Treaty 1 Territory and Homeland of the Métis Nation) — The Wilderness Committee is awarding the 2020 Eugene...
Columns
National Campaigns
The case against parks privatization
When Yellowstone national park was created in the United States in 1872, a stone archway was placed at the entrance of...
Media Releases
Ontario
Ontario opposition parties all vow swift restoration of Conservation Authority powers
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, CPAWS OTTAWA VALLEY, DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION, ONTARIO NATURE, RESCUE LAKE SIMCOE COALITION...
Columns
Manitoba
Territory Appreciation
The Wilderness Committee works on the traditional lands and waters of Indigenous Peoples, including First Nations...
Videos
TV News Story - Trans Mountain Pipeline resumes construction
This a TV news story about how construction is starting up again on the Trans Mountain pipeline after a several month...
Columns
Wild Times: A tale of two letters
Will a BC-specific endangered species law - promised as recently as 2017 - be consigned to the memory hole? by Joe Foy...
Columns
Spotted Owl and logging in the Spuzzum Valley watershed
Attention: Honourable Ministers Conroy, Heyman & Cullen Dear Honourable Ministers: Re: Spotted Owl and logging in the...
Media Releases
New report names and shames the fracking companies surviving on subsidies
VANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mes and Sel̓íl̓witulh TERRITORIES — A new report from the Wilderness...
Media Releases
Manitoba
Clearing started on peat mine without licence
Evidence Sun Gro bulldozed trees, cleared vegetation from dyke into peat bog in Agassiz Provincial Forest before...
Videos
British Columbia
TV News Story - Big Tree Tuesday
This is a TV news story featuring Wilderness Committee National Campaign Director Torrance Coste talking about the...
News
Torrance Coste: No better time than now to protect old-growth forests
Opinion: Old-growth forests are falling quickly — an average of 34 soccer fields is logged every day on Vancouver...
News
Ontario
Logging in Algonquin park is just one example how Ontario is failing to protect nature
One side-effect of COVID-19 restrictions has been a renaissance in our collective appreciation for nature. All over...
Media Releases
Follow Biden’s Lead and Cancel TMX Say Collection of Groups Representing More Than 3.5 Million Canadians
Vancouver, January 26, 2021 —A collection of labour, faith, health, science, youth, environmental, community, social...
Columns
Trudeau doesn’t get a pass on pipelines
Despite Alberta Premier Jason Kenney throwing a fit about incoming President Biden’s plans to cancel the Keystone XL...
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