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Gull Eating Salmon
Gull Eating SalmonOriginally uploaded by TFMI enjoy fall in Vancouver largely because of the opportunities to see wildlife. Salmon run and spawn in several area rivers in October and November. Hoy Creek, next to Douglas College in Coquitlam, has a ...
5 views | aggregated: 1 week 4 days ago
topics: coquitlam
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Anthropology, Dick Pound, and the Savagery Issue
Anthropology, the Indian industry', white man's guilt and Jared Diamond have been implicated as justification for Vancouver Olympic Committee Dick Pound's comment that 400 years ago Canada was full of savages. In a Globe and Mail column, Margaret...
14 views | aggregated: 5 weeks 3 days ago
topics: political, premier
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Political Consensus Opposes Drilling in Klappan
The Terrace Standard reports that Nathan Cuthen's (NDP) victory in the Skeena-Bulkley Valley riding in the recent federal election was partly the result of his association with anti-coal bed methane drilling in the Klappan. Consensus among candidate...
13 views | aggregated: 6 weeks 1 day ago
topics: election, ndp, political
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First Nations Issues in 2008 Election Interview with Phil Fontaine
Assembly of First Nations Grand Chief Phil Fontaine answers questions about aboriginal issues in a CBC.ca online interview. The questions come from the public and many of the contributors are aboriginal. Gang problems, land and title rights, huntin...
7 views | aggregated: 9 weeks 2 days ago
topics: election, political
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Hume On Mining and Conflict in NW BC
Mark Hume has written a substantial article in the Globe and Mail outlining the history of resource development in northwestern BC (or here via Native News North). The article comes on the heels of the Union of BC Municipalities publicly opposing co...
25 views | aggregated: 9 weeks 5 days ago
topics: political, premier, union
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On the heels of my less-than-well-researched post
On the heels of my less-than-well-researched post about a free topographical map site Ed pointed out how to get scanned versions of Canadian National Topographic Series (NTS) maps in the comments let me point you to a terrific site for upload...
17 views | aggregated: 12 weeks 4 days ago
topics: north-vancouver
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Safeway in Smithers Has Wifi and Other Gems from N. BC
Northern Vancouver Island Highway SignOriginally uploaded by TFMI'm back from ten days of driving and camping around northern BC with my family. A few observations and points of note:Safeway in Smithers has free wifi. It provided useful when my cel...
15 views | aggregated: 13 weeks 3 days ago
topics: north-vancouver
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Clayoquot Sound: Diverging Interests of Native and Environmentalists
Mark Hume has a terrific article in the Globe and Mail (or here) about the politics surrounding aboriginal involvement in the environmental movement in BC. For example:One of the ironies in Clayoquot Sound is that the native company now fighting env...
23 views | aggregated: 17 weeks 4 days ago
topics: politics
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Sockeye Return to Coquitlam River
This is a really cool story about the return of sockeye salmon to the Coquitlam River, just east of Metro Vancouver. It involves the efforts of the Kwikwetlem First Nation to restore the salmon run disrupted in 1903 by the building of a dam.Share Th...
24 views | aggregated: 19 weeks 2 days ago
topics: coquitlam
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It's not about race. It's about place.'
Or so says Doug Kelly, speaking moments ago on CKNW Vancouver radio about the Supreme Court of Canada decision in R v. Kapp (2008 SCC 41). Kelly was talking with Michael Smyth on the Christy Clark show. Phil Eidsvik of the Fisheries Survival Coalit...
22 views | aggregated: 22 weeks 5 days ago
topics: supreme-court
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