Today is WORLD WATER DAY and I’m honouring it by launching my next media campaign http://coastaltarsands.ca There’s very little time left before the Harper government plans to approve the Enbridge Corporation’s Northern Gateway Pipeline Project in early 2014. This plan includes hundreds of supertankers navigating through the inside passage along
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Walking Turcot Yards: Don’t Fence Me In
Been thinking about the people in Fort Chipewan today, and everyone who lives in Northern Alberta near the Tar Sands. Stumbled on this song and thought it seemed like a pretty good way of positively saying no to all the powers that are destroying everything in the name of greed.
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Idle No More This Sunday In Montreal
Idle No More Quebec is launching this call for solidarity to invite you to publicly demonstrate and to join us! WHEN: Idle No More Demonstration in Montreal – Sunday, February 10, 2013 at 1:00 pm WHERE: Phillips Square, 585 Ste-Catherine Street West, Montreal (in front of the store The Bay)
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Last year, I wrote a post on the power of the documentary. In it, I discussed how a good nature documentary can very powerfully help us to see both the wonders of the world and how we are destroying that world. Last night I watched the show Nature on PBS.
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