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Rafe Mair & Bill Vander Zalm on Campaign to Stop HST!

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“I can’t believe this bunch. They’re not in touch with the public at all!” -Bill Vander Zalm

Rafe Mair interviews former Socred cabinet colleague and BC Premier Bill Vander Zalm for TheCanadian.org on the campaign to stop the HST. Watch this fascinating 10 min discussion including:

  • Why the HST is bad for British Columbians
  • The ins and outs of this historic push for a referendum to stop the HST…and what happens if Campbell ignores a successful initiative
  • BC conservatism run amok with Campbell Liberals…and why there will be a third party

As of May 12, just five weeks into the initiative’s 3 month window, the campaign of seven directors and 6,700 volunteers has collected over 400,000 signatures from around the province.

In sheer numbers this is already well past the minimum threshold to force a referendum, and just shy of the campaign’s own conservative goal of 450,000. But the signatures must be dispersed around the province’s electoral districts – with a minimum 10% of all registered voters in each of BC’s 85 provincial ridings. So far, the rural campaign has gone exceptionally well, while the key challenge remains urban centres. The deadline for signatures is July 5.

“This is an exercise in democracy that we can’t allow to fail.” – Bill Vander Zalm

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Walking to Victoria for Wild Salmon – May 8!

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Watch this 2 min promo for Alexandra Morton’s “Get Out Migration” final rally in Victoria on May 8 – featuring the hit song “Walking to Victoria” by Sointula’s Backbone Road, and footage from this historic walk for wild salmon all the way down Vancouver Island!

Join Alexandra Morton and the “Get Out Migration” in Victoria on May 8 – and help get open net salmon farms out of the way of our wild salmon. Free Salmon BBQ and festivities. Arthur Black, Rafe Mair, Vicky Husband, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, Dr. John Volpe…Migrate with your friends and family to Victoria on May 8 and make a difference for our wild salmon!

Learn more at SalmonAreSacred.org.

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Canadians Say No to Enbridge Pipeline and Tankers

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Greenpeace Canada and other environmental groups and citizens gathered outside the regional office of Enbridge in downtown Vancouver to say no to the company’s proposal to pump bitumen from the Tar Sands across BC and into coastal supertankers in the Great Bear Rainforest.

The demonstration was staged in conjunction with a similar one in Calgary outside Enbridge’s Annual General Meeting today. Concerns over the company’s BC proposal have been heightened by the recent environmental catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico that has seen millions of gallons of oil pollute the marine environment and threaten coastal communities, fish, and wildlife.

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Wild salmon advocates call for the resignation of CEO of Cermaq

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Wild salmon advocates on the historic Get Out Migration called for the resignation
of Geir Isaksen – CEO of Norwegian Government-owned Cermaq, the world’s second
largest salmon farming corporation – at the company’s headquarters in Campbell
River, over his failure to protect BC’s wild salmon from the ecological impacts of
his company’s farms. Salmon conservation groups have been pushing for the clearing
of the the “Wild Salmon Narrows”, a critical migratory pathway for embattled Fraser River
sockeye and other wild salmon. Isaksen recently rejected calls to close just two
Cermaq-owned farms despite having called for such precautionary measures himself in
his 2009 report to shareholders.

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Bogus flood reduction claims for Fraser gravel mining

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BCIT Instructor and former provincial biologist Dr. Marvin Rosenau uses government documents and statements from respected hydrologists to poke holes in the Campbell Government’s Fraser River gravel mining program. 5 min of watching this video will leave you with little doubt as to what’s really going on. Highlights from 2009 Chilliwack event hosted by the Fraser River Gravel Stewardship Committee.

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Fast for BC’s Wild Salmon

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First Nations of BC’s Broughton Archipelago – devastated by the impacts of salmon farms – led a fast for wild salmon during the Olympics. 45 people participated in the 29-hour fast in Vancouver – and around the world via Facebook. 92% of BC’s salmon farms are Norwegian-owned, and, since the Winter Games is a major attraction in Norway, the group took advantage of the opportunity to reach out to Norwegian citizens through the media and Facebook. The event garnered excellent coverage in Norway.

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Juvenile Fraser River sockeye infested by sea lice

“Farmed Salmon Exposed” online, plus positive reviews from international media

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Damien Gillis’ new documentary, “Farmed Salmon Exposed: The Global Reach of the Norwegian Salmon Farming Industry” is now available online here in its entirety. Click here to view it.

The film has been screened over 40 times in 9 countries around the world since this past November, when it was launched during the Pure Salmon Campaign’s Global Week of Action on salmon farms. One of these screenings, at the recent global Seafood Choices Summit in Paris, caught the attention of ABC TV’s award-winning food critic, Steve Dolinsky (http://tinyurl.com/y8wfyl – scroll down to Day 2) and received this positive review by The Atlantic Monthly’s Barry Estabrook (http://tinyurl.com/y9vlzxj):

“I’ve visited salmon farms, read scientific articles, and interviewed the multi-billion-dollar industry’s advocates and detractors, but never have I encountered anything as graphic as the film Farmed Salmon Exposed by Canadian filmmaker Damien Gillis…The film in its entirety is positively gut-wrenching…Industry representatives said that the movie was one-sided…Farmed Salmon Exposed is one-sided. It’s the side of the industry the multi-national corporations don’t want us to see.” – The Atlantic


The film will also be playing at a number of film festivals around the world this year, including in Vancouver. The trailer to the film was seen over 35,000 times globally and there have been 25,000 hits on the recently released four chapters of the 23-minute film. Now, for the first time, TheCanadian.org presents the full film online.

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