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Green Party staple opts for new Vision
Posted by Shemuses from Canada
For years, Andrea Reimer and the civic Green Party were inextricably linked in Vancouver politics. Not anymore. The 36-year-old activist left the party in March to co-chair NDP MLA Gregor Robertson's Vision Vancouver mayoral nomination campaign.
Wild salmon could disappear from Vancouver menus
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
One of Vancouver's top restaurants says it would consider taking wild salmon off its its menu if it proves to be unsustainable. Robert Clark, the executive chef of C restaurant, which overlooks Vancouver's False Creek, said the restaurant has made no decision yet, but wants to do its part to help protect dwindling salmon stocks. "At C, being a leader in the selling of sustainably harvested seafood, we are always considering and reconsidering and analyzing what's on our menu and should be there," Clarke told CBC Radio on Thursday morning.
The rich, poor, and chasm between
Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
The earnings gap between the rich and the poor is widening in Canada, with incomes among recent immigrants showing especially dramatic declines in recent years, according to sweeping new census data. Earnings among the richest fifth of Canadians grew 16.4 per cent between 1980 and 2005 while the poorest fifth of the population saw earnings tumble 20.6 per cent over the 25-year time period, Statistics Canada said in its 2006 census release on income and earnings. Earnings among people in the middle didn't budge.
The high cost to Alberta of 500 dead ducks
Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
Five hundred dead ducks in the toxic sludge of a Syncrude Canada Ltd. tailings pond have dealt a major blow to Alberta's $25-million campaign to sell the booming oilsands as eco-friendly. Company and government officials confirmed Wednesday that only five ducks were saved after a flock of mallards landed Monday morning on the partially frozen pond filled with oilsands wastes.
Operators go to court to protect injection site
Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
With just two months to go before its doors may be closed by the Conservative government, operators of North America's only supervised injection site for users of illegal drugs have gone to court to stay open. The facility saves lives, reduces harm to drug addicts and increases their motivation to seek treatment, lawyers argued in B.C. Supreme Court yesterday. As a result, they said, federal drug laws against possession of heroin and cocaine should not apply there. "The criminal approach leads to death. Harm reduction leads to life," said John Conroy, representing the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users.
Safe-injection site mounts constitutional challenge
Posted by Shemuses from CBC
The operators of Canada's only supervised safe-injection site are launching a constitutional challenge they hope will bolster their ability to continue operating the controversial facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and the Portland Hotel Society, which operate the site, are scheduled to appear in B.C. Supreme Court in Vancouver on Monday morning.
Protests dog Alberta PR campaign
Posted by Shemuses from Globe and Mail
Conservationists will be rolling out an advertising campaign and dispatching polar-bear-suit-clad protesters this week in an attempt to derail Alberta's mission to Washington that is aimed at propping up the province's environmental image south of the border. Ron Stevens, Alberta's deputy premier and Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations, said he will stress his province's commitment to "environmentally sustainable development of the oil sands" when he meets with U.S. government officials, industry representatives and policy analysts this week.
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