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Make the BC election about a healthy environment🌱and a safe climate! ⛅
Every day between elections, you and I spend our time standing up for forests, endangered species, wild areas and a...
Videos
Manitoba
See through the spin: Funding Manitoba's Parks
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Manitoba
Video: RIVERSIDE RANT ‑ See through the spin on park funding announcement
Here's Wilderness and Water Campaigner Eric Reder to help you see through the spin on recent park funding...
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Video: 50‑metre tall pile of toxic frack sludge!!!
For those who are wondering what this behemoth pile of sludge is made of: • Drilling waste hydrocarbon • Drilling...
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Some Assembly Arts Society's Uprooted helps Metro Vancouver youths come to terms with climate crisis
Some Assembly Arts Society’s latest play, Uprooted, opens with a love letter to the Earth. Cowritten and acted by...
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Feds urged to step in to stop B.C. logging in refuge of last breeding pair of spotted owls
'It knows this is the last breeding pair and yet it continues to authorize logging,' says Ecojustice lawyer Only three...
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Canada’s last breeding pair of endangered spotted owls found in valley slated for imminent logging

The federal government is legally obliged to respond to an Ecojustice petition calling for an emergency order to stop...

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Whole Otter World Talk
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Video: ACTION ALERT ‑ Demand protection for the last wild spotted owls
Joe Foy, Protected Areas Campaigner There are only three known spotted owls remaining in the wild. That heartbreaking...
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Media Releases
B.C. government endangering the last pair of spotted owls in Canada
Ecojustice, Wilderness Committee demand federal emergency protections for dwindling northern spotted owls VANCOUVER /...
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British Columbia
B.C.’s old‑growth forest announcement won’t actually slow down logging: critics
As rumours swirl of a snap fall election, the NDP government has announced development deferrals for nine areas — but...
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Hundreds of groups with over 8 million members call for equal rights and permanent immigration status for migrants amidst COVID‑19 recovery Press conference, 9am, September 14, 2020. Contact for video.
TORONTO, Sept. 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — This morning, as the federal Liberal cabinet meets to set their priorities...
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British Columbia
BC Says Preserving Biodiversity Now Guides Logging Policies
The province matches its much-anticipated report with new protections. But some ancient forests are still at risk. B.C...
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Media Releases
York Region launches shocking attack on the Greenbelt: Eleven groups call on the Premier to take immediate action
York Region, Ont. – On Thursday, October 8, York Region Council will hold a vote on a proposal to request that the...
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British Columbia
B.C. moves to end divisive old‑growth forest policies, protects nine areas
HAZELTON, B.C. — The British Columbia government says the protection of the province's old-growth forests requires a...

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