Author: Damien Gillis

If money talks, then the geyser of financial support that has sprung in the past few days for salmon activist Don Staniford’s legal defence speaks volumes. Staniford is being sued by the world’s second largest farmed salmon producer, Oslo-based Cermaq, for defamation. The trial, expected to run 20 days, begins

The various spokespeople for supposed “grassroots” pro-Tar Sands and pipeline organization EthicalOil.org have steadfastly maintained their campaign has no connection to the oil and gas industry or the Harper Government. But as the links between these groups continue to pile up, that contention becomes harder and harder to swallow. From

In the wake of the bogus deal Enbridge attempted to foist on the Gitxsan people of Northwest BC last month to help pave the way for its controversial proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, the community has banded together in inspiring fashion – with camcorders and the Web as their weapons of

In the wake of the bogus deal Enbridge attempted to foist on the Gitxsan people of Northwest BC last month to help pave the way for its controversial proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, the community has banded together in inspiring fashion – with camcorders and the Web as their weapons of

It wasn’t until the final hours of the final day of the Cohen Commission into declining Fraser River sockeye, last Monday, that it truly became clear to me. After all the hundreds of thousands of pages of documents and thousands of hours of testimony made public by the Inquiry; after

Get MP3 (8.9 MB) Listen to this 7 min interview of Damien Gillis from CBC’s Early Edition this past Monday. Damien and host Kathryn Gretsinger discuss some of the key revelations that have emerged from the Cohen Commission into disappearing Fraser River Sockeye – including a series of new virus

The second of three extra days of hearings at the Cohen Commission into disappearing Fraser River sockeye yielded more surprises – the biggest of which came in the form of a telling internal email strain between DFO and Canadian Food Inspection Agency staff. The emails were sent following a teleconference

“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.” – Carl Sagan Dr. Kristi Miller took the stage for a curtain call at the Cohen Commission into disappearing Fraser River sockeye yesterday, delivering a dramatic follow-up performance to her headline-grabbing run in September. Among the bombshell revelations that emerged

Get MP3 (36 MB) Damien Gillis and Stewart Richardson of CJSF 90.1 FM discuss the intense activity around the proposed Enbridge pipeline of late – including the recent controversy among the Gitxsan community on Northwest BC, centering on a now-disputed deal signed by one of their treaty negotiators and the

While news emerges that a court order may have been obtained to remove Gitxsan leaders and community members who took over the Treaty office in Hazelton earlier this week – in response to a deal made with Enbridge by treaty negotiator Elmer Derrick without the knowledge or approval of the

The heated debate playing out in the BC media over the past few days regarding the now-disputed deal announced this past Friday between Enbridge and the Gitxsan First Nation warrants a closer examination of the lone Gitxsan man behind the deal. Just who is Elmer Derrick – besides a hereditary