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Protest Called Against BC Ferries Beginning Dec. 12
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- Written by News desk News desk
- Category: News News
- Published: 03 December 2011 03 December 2011
A call to action to protest the management of the Marine Highways begins on December 12, the day the ferry fees increase. Dec. 12th Action Against B.C. Ferry Inc. is asking all communities affected by the ferries to protest the increase by "taking creative but non-disruptive action, and keep taking action, until the provincial government passes public demands into law" at ferry terminals throughout B.C. The protest is endorsed by Occupy Powell River.
Standing Ovation for "White Water, Black Gold"
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 30 November 2011 30 November 2011
BC Ferries Announces Fare Increase, Violates Bill 14
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 26 November 2011 26 November 2011
BC Ferries has announced a fare increase of 2.5% for the Horseshoe Bay - Langdale route effective December 12. Siting increased fuel costs, the fares will increase to 5% on the three major Vancouver Island - Mainland routes.
Could BC be the very last province to enact a plan to fight poverty?
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- Category: News News
- Published: 24 November 2011 24 November 2011
A report released today by BC Campaign 2000 shows that the province’s child poverty rate rose from 14.5 percent in 2008 to 16.4 percent in 2009, using Statistics Canada’s low income cut-offs before tax as a measure of poverty.
Coastal First Nations Reaffirm Opposition to Enbridge Pipeline
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- Category: News News
- Published: 23 November 2011 23 November 2011
The Coastal First Nations, an alliance of First Nations on British Columbia’s North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii, has reaffirmed their opposition to the proposed $6.6 billion pipeline that would carry oil from the tar sands to BC's northern coast where it could be loaded on ships and sent to Asia.
"The Coastal First Nations categorically oppose Enbridge's Northern Gateway Project," says Art Sterritt. Sterritt, the executive director of Coastal First Nations, added that "we unequivocally maintain our ban on oil tankers on the coast."
Pestilence Loosed Upon BC
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 29 October 2011 29 October 2011
The New York Times did what I was not allowed to do - tell you there has been a second diagnosis of Infectious Salmon Anemia virus in wild BC salmon, this time in the Fraser River itself, the biggest wild salmon river in the world.
In Transition Film Resonates with Audience
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
- Category: News News
- Published: 28 October 2011 28 October 2011
An enthusiastic audience of around 95 people attended the latest film in the Green Film Series sponsored by Sustainable Coast Magazine and The Gibsons Green Team as a project of the Sunshine Coast Film Society at the Gibsons Heritage Playhouse on Monday, October 24. The film "In Transition" led the audience through the beginnings of the Transition Movement which began in 2006 in the UK.
InTransition Film, Chicken Butchering, OS Lending Shed, RCCA events
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- Written by Administrator Administrator
- Category: Latest Latest
- Published: 23 October 2011 23 October 2011
Hope you're all having a lovely weekend, and getting out to the many artful events happening this weekend. I just have a couple things to pass along today: some workshops, a call-out for donations to our One Straw lending shed, a great film this Monday, and some events presented by the Roberts Creek Community Association.
Lethal Atlantic salmon virus found in BC sockeye
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- Written by Beverly Saunders Beverly Saunders
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- Published: 17 October 2011 17 October 2011
Infectious Salmon Anemia virus has been found in two young sockeye salmon. Sheer reckless, negligent behaviour has loosed a highly infectious fish farm influenza virus into the North Pacific. I have been told over and over by industry and government that this could not happen, but they were wrong.