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Media Releases
British Columbia
Climate law update gives public tools to hold governments to targets
VANCOUVER – Changes announced today in B.C.’s Climate Change Accountability Act will help prevent the province from...
News
British Columbia
B.C. introduces legislation to align its laws, policies with United Nations’ Indigenous rights declaration
British Columbia will conduct a sweeping review of provincial laws to protect human rights for Indigenous people...
News
Manitoba
Storm response positive, but longer view on climate needed
Crisis brings out community. And Manitobans show they know how to deal with climate emergencies. There are endless...
Media Releases
British Columbia
Wilderness Committee applauds introduction of BC Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
Group calls on other provincial, territorial and the federal government to introduce similar laws The Wilderness...
News
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh faces pressure to try to veto Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
Politicians often talk about the urgent need for bold action on the climate crisis gripping the planet. New Democrats...
Videos
Video: Welcome to This Week in ARGHh with Charlotte Dawe on the BC Government's Wolf Kill
Channeling her inner John Oliver, our Conservation and Policy Campaigner Charlotte Dawe is talking about how the BC...
Media Releases
Manitoba
Conservation and Climate Ministry signals growing awareness of climate and biodiversity crisis
For Immediate Release - October 23, 2019 New titles may indicate government will finally act on climate and protect...
Columns
Manitoba
Ontario
Vote for climate, for nature — for the wild!

For the issues you and I care about, there’s a great deal riding on this election. From endangered species laws to...

Media Releases
Province giving 6.5M for caribou recovery but ignores habitat protection
VANCOUVER – The province recently announced $6.5 million to go towards southern mountain caribou habitat protection...
Media Releases
Environmentalists denounce BC's refusal to expand habitat protection for rare deep-snow caribou
Twenty-three environmental groups, conservationists, and animal protection organizations have sent a letter to BC...
News
"Like some giant machine that could not be turned off"
As BC's logging and mining industries lay waste to the wilderness, Joe Foy wonders whether our elected leaders even...
News
Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion potential to be key B.C. issue in federal election

The $9.3-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will triple capacity and is meant to open up new markets for...

News
U.S. lists B.C. caribou as endangered while province approves logging in critical habitat

As southern mountain caribou herds wink out, the B.C. government is turning to controversial measures like an...

News
Warning signs prior to city’s multi-million dollar purchase of Manyberries oilfield
Medicine Hat, AB – There were warning signs in 2011 of what would become a years long and multi-million dollar legal...
Columns
Wild Times - Laying Waste
The sky was as blue as a robin’s egg with nary a wisp of cloud nor smoke to mar the view. The Skagit River, here so...

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