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An outrage for food consumers (ie EVERYONE!)
This is very upsetting news for us all. We have a right to know what we are consuming and how our food has been produced. It's wrong for the governm...
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travelbug |
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Frenzy of concern over 'threatened' polar bears contradicted by the facts
When environmentalist activists want cuddly creatures for poster purposes, nothing beats Canadian.
Forget our most endangered species like the blac...
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MintyPop |
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Bike Valet During Fireworks Fairs Poorly (I wouldn't leave my bike, would you?)
Cyclists aren't taking advantage of the free bike valet service run by Better Environmentally Sound Transportation at this year's HSBC Celebration of ...
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cosmo_girl |
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Salt Marshes Home to Many Native Species Must be Protected
There was a time not so many years ago when salt marshes were dismissed as waste areas or swamps, to be filled in with domestic and industrial trash.
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cosmo_girl |
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Shell suspends drilling in the Sacred Headwaters
After considerable pressure from affected communities and conservation groups, Royal Dutch Shell has announced a suspension in coalbed methane drill...
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'800,000 cars idling for 24 hours a day all year long'
OTTAWA -- Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton called on the federal government yesterday to halt development of a new oil sands site in northern Alberta, s...
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travelbug |
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Community gardens grow friends as well
Fresh food produced within 100 metres. Have you got the desire to dig and even the need to weed, but sadly the only soil in your life is holding up a...
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travelbug |
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Parks Board Massacres QE Park for Prime Views
It's out with 70 tall trees and in with the views from Queen Elizabeth Park after Monday night's parks board meeting. NPA parks board commissioners vo...
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hippe_gal |
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Port Mann Bridge to be Twinned -- Conflicting Views on the Plan's Actual Benefits
From CBC.ca
The B.C. government has given the go-ahead to the Port Mann Bridge/Highway 1 expansion project.
Environment Minister Barry Penner ...
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Shane_B |
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Save our Rivers
The follwoing is a letter written by Damien Gillis which responds t a recent article in the Globe and Mail. Sdaly I cannot find the article in the Glo...
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Stephen Rees's blog |
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Rooftop Grow Operation Revealed!
Green Roofs - The new way to keep Vancouver Healthy, beautiful and GREEN!...
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TommyDouglas |
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Rail Car Leaks Toxins Into the Thompson Near Lytton
A rail car that was knocked into the Thompson River by a rock slide is leaking a toxic chemical, provincial officials told a public meeting in Lytton,...
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hippe_gal |
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Vancouver's last working farm under threat of closure!
UBC is currently deciding whether or not to keep the UBC farm, which would mean putting an end to a thriving community and academic site....
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Kristin |
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Breakfast Quotes
Some interesting quotes from this morning's Metro Vancouver Sustainability Breakfast...
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b5baxter |
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Soaring gas prices worry more people than health: B.C. poll
Energy costs top concern for first time in 20 years. Fuel costs were top of mind for B.C. residents in June, beating out health care and the economy ...
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Nag_Champa |
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The Bicycle: Humanities Best Invention
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race. H.G. Wells
Science has had a tremendous impa...
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cosmo_girl |
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B.C. headed for worst salmon run in 50 years, officials say
B.C.'s headed for the worst salmon catch in 50 years, and little or no local sockeye will be available in shops and restaurants, federal fisheries off...
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travelbug |
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How will you spend Gordo’s cash?
Budget 2008 and BC's Climate Action Dividend should have already arrived in your mailbox in time for the long weekend. The objective of this campai...
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hippe_gal |
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Seals Steal Salmon Stocks From Local Fishermen
Competition among groups harvesting steadily declining salmon stocks on the lower Fraser River has become so fierce that one category of fisherman is ...
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hippe_gal |
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Waste-to-energy schemes just hype, says top scientist
Magic machines that would cleanly burn Metro Vancouver's garbage are just promoters' hype, says a retired chemistry professor.
Paul Connett, who ...
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Nag_Champa |
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Put Your Parka's Back On - Winter is Back
Residents across the Lower Mainland shivered in their flip-flops Thursday as wet, wintry weather brought one of the coldest June days on record.
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hippe_gal |
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Farmed Salmon Escape and Threaten Indigenous Salmon Stocks
Some of the 30,000 farmed Atlantic salmon that escaped yesterday near Campbell River have already been caught by anglers in the area, according to at ...
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hippe_gal |
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Human Rights Torch comes to Vancouver May 25
Vancouver - Activists will take to the streets and focus attention on human rights abuses in China before the Summer Olympic games in Beijing when the...
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marbo |
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Province Blogger Shares First Insights Into the Beijing Olympics
The Province's team has arrived in Beijing and Olympic reporter Damian Inwood is up and blogging. See his first post at theprovince.com/blogs.
Here...
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hippe_gal |
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Squamish chamber supports massive Garibaldi Resort plan
Bilion-dollar plan calls for golf courses, ski hill.
The Squamish Chamber of Commerce has given its approval to a large development at Brohm Ridge ...
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Nag_Champa |
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Vancouver's food options: some market research
It s hard to be a responsible consumer, especially when you re on a budget. I did some of my own market research to figure out the best pla...
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Kristin |
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Canadians skeptical of 'green' product claims
OTTAWA - Eighty per cent of Canadians consider the environment when making purchasing decisions, but few believe companies' claims about green produc...
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travelbug |
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Gordon Campbell Teams Up With Environmental Activists...Instead of Just Arresting Them
From Westcoaster.ca and the Canadian Press
What a difference 20 years have made for B.C.'s environmentalists.
Less than two decades ago, the...
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Shane_B |
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G8 countries fail to meet climate change vows: report
BERLIN (Reuters) - None of the G8 countries have come even close to fulfilling their pledges to fight climate change with the United States, Canada an...
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Nag_Champa |
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Cycling network may see improvements, but how quickly?
Four months after Vancouver Area Cycling Coalition Alexi Zowadski gave the Tri-Cities area a D for its cycling infrastructure, the City of Coquitlam...
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Nag_Champa |
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Why incinerators are the wrong and expensive option for garbage in Canada
The Globe's John Barber wrote a scathing Op-Ed on Friday about convoluted logic that convinced politicians in the Durham region of Ontario that it was...
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travelbug |
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Controversy over trees
Outraged residents protested against the proposed axing of trees in Queen Elizabeth Park at a public forum yesterday.
The Vancouver Park Board want...
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Nag_Champa |
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Solar Taxi Stops in Vancouver on World Tour
Everywhere Swiss schoolteacher Louis Palmer drives, he manages to draw a crowd.
And he's drawn a lot of crowds.
Palmer and his now world-fam...
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cosmo_girl |
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Some Gal in Saskabush Got Gordies $100 Cheque?
A Yorkton, Sask., woman was more than a little surprised to receive a $100 climate action dividend cheque from the B.C. government this month, especia...
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politix_pete |
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Why Al thinks Mayor Sam "Needs a New Job."
I caught up with Parks Commisioner Al DeGenova at his campaign headquarters to talk about why he thinks Mayor Sam s time in office has come to a ...
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dan-froidevaux |
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Housewives are Denied $100 Climate Action Dividend
A Port Coquitlam woman is being asked to jump through hurdles to get her $100 tax rebate -- but her dead mother had no such problems.
It absolutel...
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politix_pete |
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Majority hate carbon tax
But broad opposition hasn't hurt Liberals -- yet. People across B.C. are fired up about the carbon tax.
A new poll shows that 60 per cent of B.C.e...
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Nag_Champa |
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Storage locker for greenhouse gas?
Scientists want to pump excess CO2 to 'honeycomb' near seabed. Vast amounts of greenhouse gases could be stashed under the ocean floor from B.C. to C...
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travelbug |
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Provincial Gov Should Forget the Carbon Tax and Explore Tidal Energy
Martin Burger pulls his van up to the pumps on West Georgia near Stanley Park. Gas is $1.50 a litre right now, and Burger's prediction is the price wi...
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cosmo_girl |
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Canadians ready for carbon tax, says poll
OTTAWA -- Canadians are warming to the idea of paying a tax on activities that cause climate change, but they don't necessarily expect to get the mone...
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Nag_Champa |
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3rd Bear Shot Dead -- North Vancouver
Another black bear has been shot and killed after entering a home, this time in North Vancouver on Wednesday.
Police said the one-and-a-half-year-o...
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hippe_gal |
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Don't mess up garbage issue
It's obvious that, if we want to live in a clean environment, we have to take care of garbage we leave behind.
Metro Vancouver creates a huge amoun...
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travelbug |
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Free Bike Valet During Fireworks
The City of Vancouver wants residents and visitors to see the light and is offering a service it hopes will make things easier.
In a bid to red...
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cosmo_girl |
active:2 days 20 hours ago |
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Out of the Tap - Not So Crap
The water that comes out of most city taps in Canada is pretty clean. Yet many people prefer to spend money on bottled water, believing that it is som...
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politix_pete |
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Local Cyclists Travel to Europe to Gain Insight Around a Cycle-Friendly Vancouver
Amidst the old, cobbled streets of Europe, two local cycling advocates glimpsed Vancouver's two-wheeled potential.
Jack Becker and Richard Campbell...
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cosmo_girl |
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A little bit of Canada has vanished forever
Huge chunks of Arctic island breaking off. OTTAWA -- Giant sheets of ice totalling almost 20 square kilometres broke off an ice shelf in the Canadian...
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MintyPop |
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Vancouver 2010 Showing its Green Stripes
From Scientific American --
While the Sea-to-Sky highway construction has definitely ruffled some green feathers of Vancouver locals, the new ...
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Shane_B |
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Oak Bay's expected to become first city in Canada to let electric cars on streets
Draft bylaw will allow the low-speed vehicles to be driven freely there. The City of Oak Bay, just a hop away from Victoria, is expected to become th...
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Nag_Champa |
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Tofino Turns on Plan to Build Mine on Local Mountain
An environmental advocate has promised to take action in Tofino, arguing that a Vancouver-based mining company's exploratory drilling on Catfa...
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hippe_gal |
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Roger Pielke Sr. Attacks Messenger, Injures Self
Hurricanes respond to their immediate environment, not a global average increase in heat!- Roger A. Pielke Sr.You can tell that science and good judgm...
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