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True Partners
Charting a New Deal for BC, First Nations and the Forests We Share Download 823.42 KB73 pages
First Nations forestry accords are not creating a partnership of equals
Six years ago, anyone who said that the provincial Liberals would try to forge a “new relationship” with First Nations would have been laughed out…
“Moving forward on the environment”
It seems that the environment has finally made it to the top of the political agenda – at least for the federal opposition parties. The…
December 2006: Calling Premier McGuinty
Where will all of Ontario’s nuclear waste be stored? Ontarians will go to the polls next October to elect their provincial government. If last September’s…
December 2006: Inequality and Icarus
What’s inequality got to do with global warming? A lot Recent statistics from the United Nations on the distribution of the world’s wealth tell us…
Softwood Sellout
How BC Bowed to the US and Got Saddled with the Softwood Lumber Agreement Download 741.06 KB12 pages
Softwood Lumber Agreement spells trouble for jobs in BC’s forest-dependent communities
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL REPORT (Vancouver) The new Canada-US Softwood Lumber Agreement, if it is ratified by the Canadian Parliament, spells bad news…
November 2006: Thinking the Apocalyptic Unthinkable
Oil-dependent civilization will end before century does Whether the human species will survive this century is now—or should be—the main concern of everyone. It’s no…
Softwood deal will spur more raw log exports
The recent vote in the House of Commons ratifying the softwood lumber agreement with the United States may bring temporary relief in Canada’s long running…
October 2006: The Corporate Frankenstein Monster
Plundering, pillaging, and polluting the planet for profit Earlier this year, I wrote a three-part series under the overall theme I called “the Big Business…
BC Commentary: A Review of Provincial Social and Economic Trends
Fall 2006, Volume 9, Number 3 Download 1.43 MB Inside this issue: Private Power Developers and the BC Government’s Water Licence Giveaway BC’s Coastal Forest…
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