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Jul 4, 2018

Assessing seafood retailers' progress helps consumers and industry

David Suzuki

With Seafood Progress, consumers can support retailers that follow best practices, and retailers can demonstrate corporate responsibility and help the seafood industry progress toward sustainability.

Blog

May 4, 2018

Twelve major political moments over the next ten weeks

Brent Patterson

The Council of Canadians is engaging in multiple ways in these key struggles with imminent dates over the next ten weeks.

Photos

Nov 16, 2017

Scientists have issued some daunting recommendations about the environment

Karl Nerenberg

In 1992, concerned scientists described a series of danger signs for the planet, including loss of species, deforestation and climate change. Twenty-five years later, their new warning shows that all

News

Nov 15, 2017

When 15,000 scientists warn of environmental catastrophe it must not be a one-day story

Karl Nerenberg

In 1992, concerned scientists described a series of danger signs for the planet. Twenty five years later, all but one of those dangers signs are worse.

Blog

Sep 21, 2016

Wild Pacific salmon face an upstream battle for survival

David Suzuki

A weak provincial climate plan that fails to meet emissions targets and acceptance of new ocean-based fish farm applications won't help wild salmon.

Blog

Sep 1, 2016

Lasting ramifications of Tsilhqot'in decision on fish farms, pipelines

Brent Patterson

In 2014 a Supreme Court decision affirmed Tsilhqot'in Nation's title to their territory in B.C. Now it's at the centre of new protests and legal cases concerning First Nations land property rights.

Podcast

Jan 26, 2016

Clayoquot Sound delegation takes fish farm fight to Norway

Redeye

A delegation from Clayoquot Sound is heading to Norway, home of the fish farm giant Cermaq, with a message about the damage being done to B.C.'s coastal ecosystem.

Columnists

Sep 30, 2015

Standing up for wild salmon: Protest closes Clayoquot Sound fish farm

Stephen Leahy

A new salmon farm in Clayoquot Sound on Vancouver Island was dismantled and hauled away last week after being occupied by members of Ahousaht First Nation and local supporters from Tofino.

News

Mar 12, 2015

Fish-farm madness: Harper proposes lax regulations for fish-farm industry

Joyce Nelson

The Harper government is catering to the fish-farm industry with its proposed regulatory changes to the Fisheries Act.

Blog

Dec 18, 2014

First Nation disappointed by NAFTA commission decision on wild salmon

Brent Patterson

Between 1994 and 2012, 80 complaints have been filed with the Commission on Environmental Co-operation. Eighty-five per cent of those submissions have been dismissed or terminated.

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