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Directly Affected  – From Burnaby to Ottawa
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Directly Affected – From Burnaby to Ottawa

January 13, 2015January 16, 2015

Three Vancouver filmmakers and Raincoast are launching a national tour to ask Canadians how they are Directly Affected by oil sands development…

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Controversial exhibit stays at city hall
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Controversial exhibit stays at city hall

April 18, 2013May 23, 2021

Global News Hour Calgary
A controversial art exhibit at city hall can stay right where it is, even though under normal circumstances it would be forced out. Global’s Reid Fiest reports…

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Anti-pipeline art exhibit stirs controversy at Calgary City Hall
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Anti-pipeline art exhibit stirs controversy at Calgary City Hall

April 17, 2013May 23, 2021

The Globe and Mail, By Dawn Walton and Nathan Vanderklippe
Serene images of sea lions, spirit bears and cormorants are hardly cause for controversy, but they have created quite a stir…

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Anti-oil sands art show sets up in Calgary City Hall
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Anti-oil sands art show sets up in Calgary City Hall

April 16, 2013May 23, 2021

By Sherri Zickefoose, Calgary Herald
An anti-oil pipeline art show is hoping to win over Calgarians in the heart of oil and gas country…

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An oil spill off B.C. won’t be able to control itself
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An oil spill off B.C. won’t be able to control itself

August 2, 2012December 9, 2021

The government of British Columbia has announced five requirements that must be met before it approves any new heavy-oil pipeline from the Alberta oil sands, such as the Enbridge Northern Gateway project.

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Wolves fall prey to Canada’s rapacious tar sands business
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Wolves fall prey to Canada’s rapacious tar sands business

September 18, 2011May 23, 2021

Paul Paquet
Guardian.co.uk September 17 2011
In Canada, wolves are blamed for the demise of everything from marmots to mountain caribou. Now, Canada’s newest strategy is to “recover” boreal forest caribou by killing wolves…..

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The Enbridge pipeline: Northern Gateway to what?
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The Enbridge pipeline: Northern Gateway to what?

August 16, 2011December 5, 2021

The recent chatter from energy industry spokespersons about the need to formulate a national energy strategy is simply code for developing an export strategy for Alberta’s tar sands…

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Raincoast’s Oscar pick

March 8, 2010May 23, 2021

Raincoast joins with other national and international organizations to support James Cameron and send a message about the Alberta Tar Sands Project that would bring oil tankers to the BC coast. Click here to see the ad in Hollywood’s Variety Magazine.

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Climate change: policy in the dark

December 14, 2009May 23, 2021

Toronto Star Re: Climate change: policy in the dark, Editorial Dec. 11 Kudos to the Star for its thoughtful editorial. Reflecting on the federal government’s continued foot dragging on the climate change file, as well as its predilection for “shouting down critics and environmental activists,” as your editorial points out, one has to wonder what…

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Now the ball is in Canada’s court

December 13, 2009May 23, 2021

Montreal Gazette, December 11, 2009 Re: “U.S. EPA moves on climate as Congress stalls” (Gazette, Dec. 8) Now that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ruled that greenhouse-gas emissions pose a threat to public health and welfare, will Canada follow suit and harmonize with this policy?

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At what price…. tankers?

July 22, 2009May 23, 2021

Globe and Mail July 21 2009 Chris Genovali Coastal First Nations executive director Art Sterritt summed up the threat posed by oil tankers that would ship tar-sands crude from Enbridge Inc.’s pipeline

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