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Aboriginal protest three years later
First Nations are protesting across Canada to draw attention to outstanding land claims and other issues plaguing native communities. Thousands rallied in cities across the country, including Vancouver. Hundreds of ...
The World According to Lunn
NRCan’s Minister ‘truth’ veers farther from the facts. After months of silence Gary Lunn has finally come out and stated publicly “Canada’s New Government’s” position on the moratorium on ...
Minister Lunn's denial of tanker moratorium is pure fiction
The following is an expanded version of a Letter to the Editor sent to the Victoria Times Colonist responding to an article on tankers. The gloves have come off. ...
Shhhh, don't wake the public
The big hush around oil tankers Recent breaches to the 1972 moratorium that bans oil tanker traffic in the inside coastal waters of BC’s north coast are finally getting ...
Shell’s takeover raises concerns in BC
Environmental and Human rights concerns raised in Royal Dutch Shell’stakeover of Shell Canada The wave offoreign takeovers of Canadian corporations is setting off alarm bells in Ottawa and in ...
Celebrate heroes – yesterday, today & tomorrow
(Text of speech given at Dogwood’s Sing for an Oil Free Coast celebration attended by 200 people on May 11, 2007 at the B.C. legislature) It’s amazing to be ...
Believe! – Earth Day 2007
It’samazing to be here today in Victoria.It’s marvelous to celebrate with so many like minded people who care about theplanet. I’m sure will hear some great speeches, some fabulousmusic ...
Corporate benefit, public loss
Big returns for BC Liberal donors “The bounty to the white-herring fishery is a tonnage bounty ; and is proportioned to the burden of the ship, not to her ...