Media

A growing list of some of our favourite media sites, from BC, from Canada, and around the world. 

BC

www.islandtides.com
Island Tides, the intelligent and local newspaper for the Gulf Island and Vancouver Island

www.tidechange.ca
Tide Change, connecting people in the Comox Valley– articles, community groups and community calendar

www.thetyee.ca
The Tyee, news, arts & culture, life, opinion, mediacheck

www.thecanadian.org
The Canadian with Rafe Mair  -  environmental news

http://www.earthfuture.com/econews/back_issues/12-11.asp
Econews by Guy Dauncy

Canada

www.rabble.ca
rabble.ca, Canadian progressive journalists, writers, artists and activists from across the country

www.sgnews.ca
Straight Good News - Canada’s alternative online source

www.thegreenpages.ca
thegreenpages, online enviro news/community resource

www.greenmuze.com
greenmuze, green ideas and innovations

www.dominionpaper.ca
The Dominion, Canada’s grassroots national newspaper

www.pacificfreepress.com
Progressive opinion and online Gorilla radio edited by Chris Cook

www.this.org
This, Canadian politics, pop culture and the arts

www.alternativesjournal.ca
Alternatives, Canada’s national environmental magazine

US and the World

www.prwatch.org

The Centre for Media and Democracy’s PR Watch is a US non-profit investigative reporting group who focuses on exposing corporate spin and government propaganda. They publish PRWatch, SourceWatch, and BanksterUSA.

www.propublica.org 

ProPublica is an US independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. "We strive to foster change through exposing exploitation of the weak by the strong and the failures of those with power to vindicate the trust placed in them." Their coverage of Katerina and the aftermath was outstanding.

www.medialens.org
Media Lens is a UK-based media-watch project analysing mainstream media bias.

readersupportednews.org
Reader Supported News is an outgrowth of Truthout and carries serious news stories not found in other media.

It would be any organization’s worst nightmare. On Feb. 12, 2010, a fax arrived at Vancouver’s Talon Books marked “With Prejudice” in black capital letters on Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP letterhead. “Dear Sirs,” the fax began. “We are counsel to Barrick Gold Corporation and are writing concerning the announcement...that Talon Books is scheduled to publish, in May 2010, a book called Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for the World’s Mining Industries.”

by Joyce Nelson

The lawyers for Barrick demand­ed that the publisher, the Quebec au­thors, and the translators of the French manuscript turn over any portion of it “that makes direct or indirect refer­ence to Barrick, [its subsidiary] Sut­ton Resources Ltd., or to any of their past or present subsidiaries, affiliates, directors or officers” or face legal proceedings.

Toronto-based Barrick is the world’s biggest

by Dave Stevens

“Out of Kilter: BC Pollution Monitors,” (Summer 2010), looked at errors in pollution data in the BC provin­cial monitoring network. There are similar issues on the national scene. 

The Canadian Environmental Protection Act, revised in

by Arthur Caldicott

The bottled water industry enjoyed impressive growth until 2007, the result of relentless advertising, ubiquitous availability, and a propaganda assault on public water systems. 2.36 billion litres of water were sold in Canada in 2006, worth an estimated $708 million. In the US in 2007, 33.3 billion litres were sold for $11.5 billion.

In 2008, growth turned negative. Recession squeezed shoppers' wallets, and bottled water fell off their shopping lists. It wasn't just recession, though. People weren't buying the lie about unsafe tap water. And mountains of bottles in blue boxes and landfills were

by Tarah Millen

The town of Taiji, Japan is responsible for the slaughter and trade of over 2,000 dolphins each year. A jewel along the South East coastline of Japan, Taiji could transform into a beautiful oasis were it not for the

by Anne Sherrod

Many environmentalists feel that their most important role at this time is to help the public accept that global warming and peak oil are real and potentially deadly problems.