Article by Derek Moscato in Metro. “Last week, the garden of which I am a recently minted member, Queen Mary Community Garden, opened to much fanfare on the North Shore. The garden is a major success — and has become an attractive focal point for the North Van neighbourhood where it resides.” Read article
Article by Jennifer Yang in The Star. Ontario “has secretly passed an unprecedented regulation that empowers police to arrest anyone near the G20 security zone who refuses to identify themselves or agree to a police search.” Read article
Article by Elizabeth James in the North Shore News.
“Readers haven’t gone to the Internet and other news media because it is cheaper or easier; they’ve gone because they no longer trust what the major newspapers are printing.”
– Edward Reagan, editor, Camas Courier, Fairfield, Idaho (Pop. 395)
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Article by Chris Genovali in Huffington Post. “Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for the Fraser River sockeye fishery raises serious questions about the process and methodology for MSC certification, especially given the latest Fraser sockeye collapse of some eight million fish.” Read article
Article by Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Margaret Cronin Fisk for Bloomberg News. Read article
Judge Feldman owned stock in Transocean and Halliburton, as well as two of BP’s largest U.S. private shareholders – BlackRock and JP Morgan Chase. Lucia Graves writes about it at Huffington Post: Judge Who Lifted Moratorium Tied To Offshore Drilling Companies
Article by Will McMartin in The Tyee. “How did the transfer of one-third of BC Hydro’s operations and employees to Accenture meet the pledge to ‘Protect BC Hydro’? And how did exempting the Accenture deal from scrutiny by the BC Utilities Commission fulfill the election promise to ‘restore’ BCUC independence?” Read article
Article by Naomi Klein in The Guardian.
“For weeks residents had been subjected to a barrage of pep talks and extravagant promises coming from Washington, Houston and London. Every time they turned on their TVs, there was the BP boss, Tony Hayward, offering his solemn word that he would ‘make it right’. Or else it was President Barack Obama expressing his absolute confidence that his administration would ‘leave the Gulf coast in better shape than it was before’, that he was ‘making sure’ it ‘comes back even stronger than it was before this crisis’.
“It all sounded great. But for people whose livelihoods put them in intimate contact with the delicate chemistry of the wetlands, it also sounded completely ridiculous, painfully so.”
Article by Rex Weyler in The Tyee.
“BP, by all accounts, is guilty of criminal negligence, but it would be a mistake to pass this off as an anomaly. These safety violations reflect the habits of industrial culture. BP will send some scapegoat packing and claim they’ve learned their lesson. But we’ve witnessed this before at Bhopal in 1984, at Chernobyl in 1986, at the Marcopper Mine in the Philippines in 1996, in Seveso Italy, at Love Canal, Banqiao Dam in China, gold mines in Romania, and in Minimata Japan for four murderous decades, as Chisso Chemical poisoned an innocent fishing village.
“This disaster isn’t just human error. It is the natural consequence of our society’s practice of harvesting nature for profit.”
Article by Will McMartin in The Tyee. “Documents filed with the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC) reveal that all three of Accenture’s biggest clients in this province — BC Hydro, BC Transmission Corporation, and Terasen Gas Inc. — have “repatriated” operations previously outsourced to the firm.” Read article
Article with audio clip from Deconstructing Dinner on Kootenay Co-op Radio, including Craig Orr, Alexandra Morton, Dr. Larry Dill, and Fin Donnelly. Read and listen