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Log and Flog

February 4, 2010 | 

Printed in Focus Magazine, February 2010by Leslie Campbell Steve Sewall, VP, Community Planning with Couverdon, also spoke at the luncheon. Sewall has only been on the job about five ...

Freedom of Information Act Under Fire

February 4, 2010 | 

Victoria, BC – Failure to comply with its own access to information rules is undermining the BC’s Governments claims of transparency and accountability according to a report by Dogwood ...

Access Denied: Abuses and Failures Under BC’s FOI Act

February 3, 2010 | 

An excerpt from the submission made to the Third Special Committee to Review the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act in Victoria, BC on February 3, 2010. ...

The real problem with BC logging industry

January 29, 2010 | 

Letter to the Times Colonist in response to the Executive Director of the Truck Loggers Association’s January 28, 2101  Op-Ed called “Educating urbanites on the forest industry” Mr. Lewis’ ...

Conflict of Interest

January 29, 2010 | 

Politics is a dirty business.  It’s no secret to any of us that the agreements and plans which shape our community’s future are often hatched behind closed doors far ...

Broken promise: BC's Coalbed Methane rules inferior

January 28, 2010 | 

Back in 2007 Gordon Campbell’s government promised BC would have the best standards for coalbed methane in North America. Almost three years later an investigation by Dogwood Initiative has ...

Major Pipeline Spill ‘Another Warning’ Say Environmentalists

January 14, 2010 | 

Media Release A major oil pipeline spill has joined a recent spate of shipping accidents as “yet another warning about the consequences of shipping oil to and from BC’s ...

Grassy Narrows

January 12, 2010 | 

 by: Chris Kornacki – Wawatay News After almost a decade of blockades and protests from Grassy Narrows First Nation, the Ontario Superior Court has begun hearing evidence in the ...

Closing Ranks

January 12, 2010 | 

  On a blissfully sunny day in BC’s northwest this past summer, the Office of the Wet’suwet’en hosted several First Nations, non-governmental organizations, and community members in a discussion ...