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It would be great if we could get some in-depth reporting on the issues surrounding the Alberta tar/bitumen sands from the Canadian media (from some place other than the completely terrific Tyee that is). For now however, we have to rely on organizations like Al Jazeera to provide us with the kind of quality reportage we rightly deserve.
This story is about the First Nations people, who along with many other communities in British Columbia and Alberta, find themselves caught in the middle:
...between Canada's expanding oil industry, home to the world's third-largest oil reserves; and the rapidly growing economies in East Asia, particularly China.
As per usual there's...
Mitchell Anderson over at The Tyee has thoughtfully put together the scenario that would likely unfold in the event of a bitumen spill in Vancouver harbour. Something never mentioned in Canada's rapidly deteriorating media, but obviously important, is how such a spill would affect the residents of Vancouver:
The public health emergency and potential evacuation of large parts of the city might easily overshadow the more well known consequences of an oil spill as local authorities struggle to move hundreds of thousands of people out of harm's way.
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Here in Quebec, amidst the nightly demonstrations against the tuition increases and Bill 78, the bill that gave the movement oxygen, we hear a constant drumbeat from media sources that the kids are "spoiled," or have a sense of "entitlement," and are perhaps communists. Seriously. It's tiresome.
Students protest in the downtown streets of Montreal against tuition hikes on May 16, 2012 (AFP Photo/Rogerio Barbosa)
Erica Shaker of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has written a...
Enjoy the video and watch Franke James artfully connect the dots in "What is Harper Afraid Of?"
What is Harper Afraid Of? from Franke James on Vimeo.
After you've watched this remember that there are real "radicals" involving themselves in Canada's politics and they are not any of the environmental charities that the Harper government is spending $8 million dollars of Canadian taxpayers money to harass. Go over to the...
Happy to announce that this Friday, June 1, at 9:20 I'll be interviewing Franke James, a unique and exciting voice in Canadian environmentalism. Franke combines her artwork, with photography and science to create visual essays that illustrate important environmental and social issues. The science in her visual essays is well-researched, the photographs can be devestating and the artwork... cheeky, spirited and fun!
All that is just part of what makes her essays an uplifting experience. These are tough subjects and in someone else's hands this could be a polemic or worse, depressing. However, her simple, straight-foward story-telling style makes these visual essays rise above the tendentious.
All together, this allows her to tie complex issues together and weave a...