Op-ed by Carole James at The Tyee. “Two of the central messages I have heard back are that sound economic decision making must focus on the future as well as the present and that the impact on community health and the environment must be key considerations.” Read article
Article by Daniel Nairn in Grist. “Urban agriculture is a movement in transition. And it’s happening fast. Just a couple of years ago, we started hearing about Detroit’s guerrilla gardeners, reclaiming patches of vacant land in the name of fresh food, and now some of those same parcels are being assembled into large, commercially viable farming ventures.” Read article
Article by Rob Mickleburgh in the Globe and Mail. “With Monday’s sudden guilty pleas by ex-Liberal political operatives Dave Basi and Bob Virk, the government is off the hook on this controversy – at least in the short term. The NDP was unable to hide its frustration on Monday.” Read article
Op-ed piece by Jon Ferry in The Province. “Now we need to push for four trains a day, so we can have a proper rail service between the two metro regions, which have a combined population of about seven million. It should have been in place years ago.” Read article
Article by Ian Austin in The Province. Rex Weyler: “We’re calling for an absolute, 100-per-cent ban on oil tankers on the West Coast.” Read article
Article by James MacPherson and Josh Funk in Bloomberg Business Week. “Some experts conclude the so-called Keystone XL pipeline is a victim of guilt by association amid the negative publicity of the Gulf Coast oil rig explosion and other spills.” Read article
Article by Mark Hume in the Globe and Mail.
Jim Cooperman, President of the Shuswap Environmental Action Society: “There aren’t many places where you can see a mass migration. There’s wildebeest in East Africa, monarch butterflies [in Mexico], there’s the caribou migration in the Arctic, but other than that there aren’t too many places that are comparable.
“The Adams is a natural wonder, a treasure, and we should really be treating the salmon better.”
Article by Tyler Olsen in the Chilliwack Times. “The Salmon Are Sacred trip has space for 160 paddlers. Already, local First Nations Chiefs, politicians from a range of parties, and impassioned activists like Alexandra Morton, have pledged their participation.” Read article
A documentary in CBC’s The Fifth Estate series. The subject of this one is a top-secret plan called “Profunc” drawn up at the beginning of the Korean War, which would have interned people perceived to be a threat to Canadian democracy. The entire documentary (45 minutes) is on this page.
Editorial in the Vancouver Sun. “B.C. consumers will soon pay more -much more -if the province follows the lead of Ontario where power prices are soaring, not just as a result of higher generation or transmission costs, but because of ill-conceived energy policies.” Read article