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Site C: Joe Foy interview with CKNW radio
Joe Foy featured on News Talk 980 CKNW in the aftermath of the British Columbia Utilities Commission's public hearing...
Rally Wednesday Oct. 11 against cuts to our environmental protection
Now is your chance to speak up for Manitoba's environment Dear Friend, Just as we are ramping up our work on Lake...
Government across Canada miss protection deadline for boreal caribou
Environmental organizations release joint statement calling for federal and provincial action as required under the...
Energy East is dead with fossil fuels not far behind
WINNIPEG - With today’s announcement that the proposed Energy East pipeline fiasco is finally finished, First Nations...
Reactions to Site C Inquiry Filter In
The BC Utilities Commission’s long awaited final report in their Site C inquiry has been released. The report only...
Report from the Field: The 2017 Vancouver Island Trail Building Season
By Torrance Coste, Vancouver Island Campaigner. As September wraps up, so does another season of trail building for...
Neonic Pesticides Kill a LOT More than Bees
Scientists and environmentalists have been warning us for years that pesticides known as neonicotinoids, or neonics...
Group calls for provincial government not to ease hog rules
Dr. John Ikerd, professor emeritus of agricultural economics, University of Missouri, talked about the pork business...
BC Hydro to Reduce Rates Paid to Private Power Producers
Construction of a run-of-river power installation on the Ashlu River. Photo by Bryan Smith, whose film ‘49 Megawatts’...
Torrance Coste, Wilderness Committee - BC's Budget Update
Torrance Coste, Vancouver Island Campaigner, on the new NDP government's BC budget update.
Unions happy but mixed reviews for first NDP budget
‘You can’t turn back the clock on 16 years overnight. That’s not possible,’ Finance Minister Carole James said Monday...
How a Toxicologist Is Saving the California Condor With Science
Sunlight streams through a narrow entryway in Myra Finkelstein’s lab, illuminating the clear plastic bottle that she...
Hog Watch Manitoba and Partners Oppose Manitoba Government’s Red Tape Reduction Proposals
For Immediate Release - September 20, 2017 “Pork and Pollution from Land to Lake: Organic Solutions for a Sustainable...
Tiny Houses, Big Fight
In this episode we bring you to forested mountains in Secwepemc territory where the Secwepemc Nation are building tiny...
Aurora LNG pullout shows fossil fuels a bad bet
VANCOUVER, BC – Wilderness Committee is celebrating yet another nail in the coffin for the fossil fuel industry as...
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