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Message to Media: The West Does Not End at Calgary

in: Canada

One more post from the MSM that thinks the West ends at Calgary -- yet here we are - an entire island (the size of Britain) with a population 3 times that of PEI but every writer characterises the West as if there was nothing beyond the Granite Curtain. And as if we all had our heads in the tar sands. Just stop already!

Mallick: Nexen deal proves Harper is China’s plaything
Fukushima Update: Hydrogen, Pressure Changes after Earthquake

in: Fukushima, Fukushima Radiation News

Fukushima Update # 82: December 9, 2012

by Nelle Maxey

It appears there WAS a reaction to the large Dec 7 earthquake at Fukushima in Unit 1.

Despite reports to the contrary in the general press, hydrogen concentrations, pressure and radioactivity levels are still rising in Unit 1 torus.
Watershed Sentinel, Now Magazine, Globe & Mail Win 2012 Ancient Forest Friendly Awards

in: Forests

Canopy Honours Corporate Leaders for Forest Protection
Video from the Cortes Logging Roadblock, November 28, 2012

in: BC forests, Cortes Island, Island Timberlands

As of Monday December 3rd, there is a week's truce in the Cortes forest dispute to allow for continuing negotiations. The company is in a position to apply for an injunction.

Video Courtesy of Daniel J. Pierce
The Salmon Recipes

in: First Nations, Fish, Pipelines

The Salmon Recipes is not so much a cookbook, although it is an excellent one, as a luscious visual and mental experience. Combining stunningly beautiful photography, a few Susan Musgrave poems, First Nations' reminisces of harvesting and other experiences of the sea, and wonderfully practical recipes, this is not just Cookbook of the Season, but deserves a BC book award.
Paying for BC Ferries with a Gas Tax

in: Carbon

Barry Saxifrage has nailed it in this article on the Cortes Island web site where hedemonstrates that returning BC Ferries to the Ministry of Transport (highways) and raising the gas tax by one penny a litre would solve the financial problems of the system. He also shows how very low Canadian gas taxes are in comparison with other countries in the industrialised world.
Cortes Island Residents Oppose Logging

in: Cortes Island

Video from Global BC TV, Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Cortes Islanders invite people to join them on a blockade to stop logging by Island Timberlands owned by Brookfield Asset Management and China Investment Corporation. The Gorge Marina on Cortes has opened up their camps sites for free for anyone who is coming from off island.

Directions to the blockade site for support and donations of food.

CBC’s “All Points West” host has asked that people call in to comment and to share their thoughts about the proposed logging and also about the demonstrations. Please call in so that they keep covering our story and know that this issue matters to their listeners!

CBC 1 800 757 1446
The Victoria By-Election

in: Green Party, Harper, NDP

That narrow Victoria by-election, where the NDP and the Greens battled it out vote by vote (oh happy day if that could be the real condition of Canadian politics!) shows how likely we are to wind up with another 4 or 8 years of Harper Government distruction of Canada the nation and Canada the Land.
Self-Interested Lawyers Part of the Canada China FIPPA Mix

in:

Another salvo from two law professors critiquing the China-Canada FIPPA contains this damning indictment of the entire self-interested global trade system: "The Canadian public should know that many, perhaps all, of the legal experts who have come forward in recent weeks to defend the Canada-China treaty are lawyers who h
Pacific Trails Pipeline Workers Warned of Trespass on Wet'suwet'en Land

in: First Nations, Pipelines

There is a brave and long struggle going on in Wet’suwet’en territory in northern BC where First Nations are stopping pipeline workers from proceeding with the Pacific Trails Pipeline. Here is the website: http://unistotencamp.wordpress.com/

"From the beautiful unceded Unis’tot’en Yintah (Territory):

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