After the dramatic collapse of sockeye salmon stocks in the Fraser River
last year, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans quickly identified
the three “most likely” causes – including a mysterious disease that
causes brain lesions in fish. Read more of Mark Hume’s Globe & Mail article here
Article by Mark Hume in the Globe and Mail. “A look at the small print in Mr. Junger’s recommendations makes it clear
B.C. raced to its conclusion that the mine would have ‘no significant
adverse effects’ and that it placed little weight on the concerns of
first nations.” Read article
Article by Andrew MacLeod at The Tyee. “While communities editor Jennifer MacMillan stops short of saying the ‘yes’ side may have cheated in the poll, she acknowledges in a blog post that the Globe and Mail’s online voting system can be easily manipulated.” Read article
Article by Neil Reynolds in the Globe and Mail. “Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff says U.S. government debt is not $13.5-trillion (U.S.), which is 60 per cent of current gross domestic product, as global investors and American taxpayers think, but rather 14-fold higher: $200-trillion – 840 per cent of current GDP. ‘Let’s get real,’ Prof. Kotlikoff says. ‘The U.S. is bankrupt.'” 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
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 Marilyn Baptiste in the Globe and Mail. “What would you do if another country, many times more populous and powerful, decides that it wants Canada’s water and, after listening to all the reasons why it cannot not simply take it, announces that it is going to do exactly that?” Read article
Article by Brenda Bouw in the Globe and Mail. “Saskatchewan is playing hardball with BHP Billiton Ltd. over its $38.6-billion (U.S.) hostile bid to buy Potash Corp. saying it’s not convinced a sale of the resources giant is good for the province, or the country.”
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Article by David Ebner and Wendy Stueck in the Globe and Mail. “Warmer ocean water is believed to have reduced the amount of food for sockeye, and colder water recently might have helped this year’s massive run. The proliferation of fish farms on B.C.’s coast has been blamed for spreading sea lice, and other diseases that prey on young sockeye.” Read article
Story in the Globe and Mail. “B.C. Auditor-General John Doyle says the province’s budget deficit should be $73-million higher than reported after his review of the government’s financial statements for the 2009/2010 fiscal year.” Read article