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Health organizations launch anti-pesticide campaign

by Contributor on 05 Feb 2012
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Health organizations launch anti-pesticide campaign

Leading health organizations today launched BC’s first ever anti-pesticide advertising campaign – a major newspaper blitz that urges all British Columbians to support a lawn and garden pesticide ban.

Health organizations endorsing the campaign include the Canadian Cancer Society, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, the Lung Association, the Public Health Association of BC and the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment.

National Day of Action comes to Selkirk College for first time

by Erin Perkins on 26 Jan 2012
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National Day of Action comes to Selkirk College for first time

A national campaign by the student movement Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) is coming to Selkirk College Grand Forks campus for the first time, Wednesday, Feb. 1 at 10:30 a.m.

Stephen Harper and the Big Oil Party of Canada

by Murray Dobbin on 25 Jan 2012
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Stephen Harper and the Big Oil Party of Canada

Where will you be and what will you be doing when the first giant oil tanker, (there will be two plying the waters every three days) carrying over 200,000 gallons of tar sands goop diluted with solvent, spills its load into the pristine waters of the northern BC coast?

POLICE BEAT: Thief caught and sent packing to Trail

by Erin Perkins on 24 Jan 2012
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POLICE BEAT: Thief caught and sent packing to Trail

A 26-year-old man from Trail was caught by Grand Forks RCMP after a rash of petty break-ins and thefts had Riverside residents feeling uneasy.

Zachery Shobolm arrived in Grand Forks around Thursday, Jan. 12 according to Grand Forks RCMP. By Sunday, Jan. 15 he had allegedly commited his first crime and by Friday, Jan. 20 Grand Forks RCMP had him in custody and sent him back to Trail RCMP.

Shobolm had been recently living on 82 Avenue in Grand Forks, said Grand Forks RCMP Staff Sergeant Jim Harrison.

Fukishima nuclear disaster - one year later

by Contributor on 24 Jan 2012
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Fukishima nuclear disaster - one year later

A group of Canadian and American physicians, concerned about public health are organizing a one day conference to explore the potential health and environmental impacts from the troubled reactors in Fukushima and highlight the need for better monitoring and disclosure.

I am an environmentalist

by Michael Jessen on 17 Jan 2012
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I am an environmentalist

I am an environmentalist and a protester; I am a dissenter and a demander who will not be discouraged.

 

A small part of me stands in solidarity with the other protesters who have rightly been named Time’s 2011 Person of the Year.

I am a convenient target for reactionary politicians and know-it-all newspaper columnists who specialize in promoting business as usual.

Granite exploration project seeks work permit

by Mona Mattei on 15 Jan 2012
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Granite exploration project seeks work permit
Local concern is growing over two granite mining exploration applications 25 – 30 kilometres (km) up the Granby River north of Grand Forks.
 
The notices of work for the two projects, initiated by North American Stone Inc.,  indicate their intention to cut trails into two locations, remove up to 10,000 tonnes of stone from both sites and then to reclaim, re-seed and plant trees along the trails on completion.

EthicalOil.org and the Harper Government

by Damien Gillis on 13 Jan 2012
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The various spokespeople for supposed "grassroots" pro-Tar Sands and pipeline organization EthicalOil.org have steadfastly maintained their campaign has no connection to the oil and gas industry or the Harper Government. But as the links between these groups continue to pile up, that contention becomes harder and harder to swallow.

Fighting the corporate take-over of BC

by Rafe Mair on 04 Jan 2012
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Fighting the corporate take-over of BC

I write this not just as a New Year’s thought but also as one looking personally at his ninth and presumably last decade. And a sad scene I see.

From the commencement of time ownership and control of societies have been shared, preposterously unfairly, between “them that has and them that doesn’t”.

It continues today as never before. What the super rich don’t own, they control. 100s of thousands of jobs, thanks to the computer, have been exported to lands where labour is dirt-cheap and where benefits are minimal if they exist at all.

USGBC says “green” building retrofits exceed new construction

by Contributor on 18 Dec 2011
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USGBC says “green” building retrofits exceed new construction

By Jeanne Roberts

According to the U.S. Green Building Council, or USGBC, in December of 2011 the total square feet of existing LEED-certified building space exceeded the square feet of LEED new construction by 15 million square feet.

In August, LEED-certified commercial space alone totalled   1.3 billion square feet. 

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