Lower Mainland to score resource jobs: report
The bulk of the province’s new resource industry jobs will be in the Lower Mainland, not rural areas.
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Courts wrong place for rainforest battle, Crown says
As environmental groups returned to court Thursday in their lawsuit to protect the province’s old growth rainforests, the B.C. government argued the Supreme Court was the wrong venue to debate the matter.
Vancouver Island band abandons key consultation process
Kwakiutl Indian Band has rejected B.C. government attempts to negotiate a “new relationship” with First Nations, saying that talks had failed to respect its right to refuse consent to industrial development on their territories.
‘We can never get electoral reform unless we defeat Stephen Harper’: Joyce Murray
What does Liberal leadership candidate Joyce Murray have to say about co-operation, cannabis, climate change — and Campbell’s Cabinet?
Sechelt elder arrested with Sunshine Coast logging protesters
Court cases continue for 10 protesters after controversy over logging on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast escalated to an injunction and arrests on Dec. 7.
Gwaii Haanas legacy pole honours preservation, protest to save Haida Gwaii rainforest
The first monumental pole in 130 years is being raised in 2013 – and renowned carver Jaalen Edenshaw is hard at work creating a celebration of cooperation and protection.
Grassy Narrows re-lights sacred fire for 10-year blockade anniversary
In 10 years, the small log cabin by Slant Lake – just off-reserve at Asubpeeschoseewagong (Grassy Narrows) First Nation in northwest Ontario – has been home to hundreds, from anti-clearcutting community members to non-Native environmental allies and warriors of other Indigenous nations.
Poets rally their verse to keep Langley forest from development
Hundreds of poets are putting their verse together to keep a 10-hectare forest slated for development by Langley council intact, and they’re hanging their work from trees with ribbons.
Grassy Narrows Anti-Logging Blockade Marks Ten-Year Anniversary
In remote northwest Ontario, a crackling bonfire and story-telling quietly marked the 10-year anniversary of the longest protest blockade in Canada’s history, one that has become an iconic Native land defense battle.
Unchanged treaty annuity is ‘weight of injustice’ on Anishinabek
On the 162nd anniversary of the signing of the Robinson-Huron treaty, leaders representing the signatory nations delivered a letter to Ontario’s Lieutenant Governor demanding an increase in annuity payments.
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