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Manitoba
Manitoba government rushing through environmental changes during pandemic
With the province largely shut down, Pallister government uses emergency session to weaken regulations WINNIPEG –...
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Columns
Wild Times ‑ Challenge of change
As I write this Wild Times column I am under home lockdown with my wife and several family members due to the ongoing...
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Videos
Video: WEBINAR ‑ The Yintah to the Youth: Wet'suwet'en Sovereignty & Solidarity
It may seem like another lifetime now, but it’s only been two months since Indigenous youth occupied the BC...
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Proposed B.C. container terminal would threaten endangered orcas, review panel says
VANCOUVER—A federally appointed panel has found the development of a new shipping container terminal south of...
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Review panel's findings on T2 in Delta
It would result in numerous negative impacts. That’s the conclusion of a federal independent review panel’s final...
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Media Releases
Federal review panel concludes Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project will have harmful environmental effects
VANCOUVER – A federal review panel concluded today the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 Project in the Fraser River Estuary...
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Ontario
Endangered Blanding’s Turtles vs. Rock Quarry

What does it take to protect endangered species from resource extraction in Ontario? Turns out — a lot. It takes time...

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Focus any oil bailout on workers and families, not corporations
LA VERSION FRANÇAISE SUIT March 23, 2020 To the Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Cc: Federal Cabinet Ministers COVID...
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Canadian groups ask Ottawa to focus any oil bailout on workers and families, not corporations
Some Canadian organizations are asking the federal government to focus any bailout of the oil industry on workers and...
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Manitoba
Pale‑green plan offers little new money to fight climate change
The premier promised it would be the greenest budget in Manitoba’s history, but the provincial government’s financial...
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Human rights and Canada's possible $15‑billion bailout package for the oil and gas industry
On March 19, The Globe and Mail reported that "the federal government is preparing a multibillion-dollar bailout...
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National Campaigns
During this stressful time, let’s draw strength from nature
Our lives have changed remarkably over the past few days and weeks. These times are challenging, unsettling, emotional...
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Ecological impacts of the Enbridge Parkway Pipeline Expansion

On March 12, our Ontario Campaigner Katie Krelove presented at a community information event in Toronto on the...

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Manitoba
Pallister government to cut PST by 1 percentage point using revenues from its own carbon tax

Provincial sales tax cut will be funded by $25-per-tonne carbon tax, Manitoba premier says Manitoba Premier Brian...

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Manitoba
'Jewel of our province': Manitoba parks strategy may have private investment, third‑party management of campgrounds
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government is eyeing improvements to provincial parks through possible...

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