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News :: Peace |
June World Peace Forum organizers call for volunteers! |
by Linda Shuto |
16 Apr 2006
Modified: 18 Apr 2006 |
We are currently seeking volunteers to donate their time to the World Peace Forum 2006. We will need hundreds of volunteers during the Forum in June. We need people to offer billets to guests and we need help with the many events leading up to the Forum. Please register as a volunteer on our website: www.worldpeaceforum.ca |
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Tre Arrow Update: 2 years in jail and another hunger strike |
by Tre Arrow Defense Committee Email: tre (nospam) riseup.net |
18 Apr 2006
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Eco-prisoner Tre Arrow has launched a second hunger strike after more than two years in BC jails. He is fighting extradition to the US for alleged sabotaging logging and gravel mining trucks. Tre is currently being held at Wilkinson facility in Victoria, BC. |
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News :: Environment |
A Victory for Cathedral Grove? |
by Richard Boyce |
06 Apr 2006
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Environment Minister Barry Penner announced today that no parking lot will be built in Cathedral Grove. I want to congratulate all of us who have worked so hard for so long to protect the sensitive ecosystem in Cathedral Grove. Tree-sits and a permanent camp for 26 months has resulted in this conclusion. Environmental Action can work! |
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News :: Children & Education : Labor : Poverty |
BC Families do not have enough Income to Eat say BC Dietitians |
by SuperSizeMyPay.Net |
04 Apr 2006
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A report released by the Dietitians of Canada and the Community Nutritionists Council of BC identifies low incomes, lack of affordable housing, unfair welfare rates and the failure of BC to establish a living wage as key factors contributing to low nutrition in some families in BC. |
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News :: Media |
Mediagate: Sun Media and CanWest Global in a Mockery of Democracy |
by Pierre Lemieux |
30 Mar 2006
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It appears from the last federal election, that CanWest Global including its National Post and other chain of newspapers, and the Sun Media chain of newspapers have transformed media entities from the appearance of being nominally objective, to outright extensions of a Conservative Party of Canada propaganda machine. Indeed, the CanWest Global's newspapers together with Sun Media newspapers could be viewed to be little more that huge Conservative Party pamphlets, that always dissemble, and create political spin for the Conservatives. The greatest threat to national unity in Canada is not Quebec separatism, but mass-media organizations which in their pursuit of social control, greed, and iniquity, champion political interests that seek to destroy Canada. |
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News :: Animal Rights : Environment : Protest Activity : Spirituality |
Seal Slaughter |
by ms lorax |
24 Mar 2006
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375 000 seals 2 - 12 weeks... the slaughter begins today. |
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News :: Peace |
Vancouver Peace March - Photos |
by r_ |
19 Mar 2006
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Photos from March 18th Peace March and Rally in Vancouver, BC. |
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