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What is the Alberta government trying to hide on Suncor spill?

Blog entry by Mike Hudema | April 15, 2013

If you wanted to update the public about the toxicity results from a 2,200 barrel pipe rupture on Suncor’s tar sands facility, how and when would you do it? If you answered “I’d post it on an obscure blog on Friday afternoon ”,...

Clayoquot, April 13 1993: On the 20th Anniversary of a Game-Changing Land-Use Decision

Blog entry by Eduardo Sousa | April 15, 2013

The following is an Opinion Editorial published by The Times Colonist marking the Twentieth Anniversary of the Clayoquot Sound Land Use Decision (CLUD). The Decision by the BC Premier of the day allowed for continued industrial logging...

Cree launch campaign to save the Broadback Valley Endangered Forest

Blog entry by Richard Brooks | April 15, 2013

The Grand Council of the Crees and the Cree First Nations communities in the Broadback Valley of Quebec (Waskaganish, Nemaska, Waswanipi, Ouje-Bougoumou and Mistissini) have launched a public campaign to save the forests of their...

At the North Pole, A New World

Blog entry by James Turner | April 11, 2013 1 comment

I'm writing this inside a small yellow tent on the frozen Arctic Ocean, while shoveling snow into a kettle. I'm on my way to the North Pole with a   group of young people   to declare it protected and call for a sanctuary there.

Next Stop North Pole

Image gallery | April 11, 2013

Fact-checking Premier Redford’s speech in Washington

Blog entry by Mike Hudema | April 10, 2013 2 comments

Yesterday Alberta Premier Alison Redford was in Washington to lobby for the controversial Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. While in Washington, she gave a speech at the Brookings Institute. We decided to fact check some of her comments.

Ridiculous tax break sought by Resolute in the Boreal Forest

Blog entry by Richard Brooks | April 10, 2013

It’s emerged this week that Resolute Forest Products, the lead logging company clearcutting  Endangered Forests in Ontario and Quebec is seeking a tax break from the city of Thunder Bay. If successful, the break which would be...

Declaring the Arctic a global sanctuary

Blog entry by Aaron Gray-Block | April 9, 2013

On skis across the ice, towing their packs and equipment on sleighs during a week-long expedition to reach the geographic North Pole, a team of 16 campaigners are braving the remoteness of the Arctic to declare it a global sanctuary.

North Pole Expedition Continues

Image gallery | April 9, 2013

Protest rallies across Canada: April 9 is a day of action to Stop GM Alfalfa

Blog entry by Michael O'Morrow | April 8, 2013

Organic farmers in Ontario are facing a new threat that has the capacity to destroy their crops and livelihoods. Monsanto, the massive worldwide biotechnology corporation, has developed a new genetically modified (GM) Roundup...

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