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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...
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"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...
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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...

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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...

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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...
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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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The Controversy Between Persistence and Resistance
Since the TMX project’s first conceptualization in 2013 First Nations groups, environmental scientists, and activists...
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Wilderness Committee joins the call to strengthen ‑ not weaken ‑ BC's environmental assessment law.
The Wilderness Committee joined with several environmental organizations to submit a joint submission on the...
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Videos
Video: Caribou being logged to extinction
This footage is evidence the BC government has failed caribou. It's time for the federal government to step in and...
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National Campaigns
Join us Sept. 27 across Canada ✊🏽
If you’re just tuning in after summer, things are getting pretty real out there. Hurricane Dorian devastated low-lying...
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Manitoba
Global Climate Strike | WINNIPEG

GUEST SPOT: Manitoba Youth for Climate Action Hello dear Friend, Times have changed. Often people are uncomfortable...

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British Columbia
PHOTOS: Picketers block entrance to Ministry of Environment in support of Global Climate Strike
Access to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy building was blocked Tuesday morning by a group of...
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Ontario
Charlotte Dawe: Canada can no longer follow U.S. lead on endangered species protection
"The U.S. Endangered Species Act, which was rolled back, was known worldwide as the Holy Grail of species-at-risk laws...
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Manitoba
‘This is sacred’: the fight against a massive frac sand mine in Manitoba
The project — which would extract 1.2 million tonnes of sand every year for the next half-century — was excluded from...
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Line in the Sand S2: Keeping Watch

It's back! With Trans Mountain gearing up for construction again, we're launching season two of our Line in the Sand...

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