On July 22, the Toronto ad hoc coalition against open pit mining plans to
hold an awareness-raising event along Bay Street. We will be demonstrating
our support of communities from Turtle Island, Abya Yala, Africa, Asia and
Oceana resisting proposed and ongoing mining operations in which Canadian
companies with listings on the TSX are implicated in environmental
devastation and human rights abuses. We will also be asking Members of
Parliament to support legislation that calls for Canadian mining
corporations to uphold internationally recognized environmental and human
rights standards.

There is a smell up north and it is not from the boreal and sub-alpine flowers taking advantage of the short but wonderful Yukon summer.

Rather it is the stink of political interference caused by the Yukon Premier in the type of information bureaucrats from the Yukon Environment Department can submit to an independent, arms-length-from-government land use planning commission.

Weak draft plan for the Peel

The Peel Watershed Planning Commission is attempting to gather information regarding the importance of environmental, economic, social and cultural values for the entire Peel River watershed.

The dust has not settled from the recent Saskatchewan NDP leadership convention where Dwain Lingenfelter was narrowly elected leader. Ryan Meili, the candidate to whom the progressive vote rallied, got 45 per cent of the vote, and Lingenfelter, who entered the race with a coronation in mind, won with 55 per cent of the vote.