Voids under interchange concern scientists

-Goldstrean News Gazette
Excavations at the Spencer Road Interchange construction area have unveiled a network of void spaces below ground, leading a geoscientist and cave experts to be concerned that the ground will safely support the road.
In and around Langford Lake cave, metres away from where the road will pass, are a number of limestone rock [...]

Environmentalists’ report critical of Bear Mountain

Bill Cleverley, Times Colonist
Opponents of the Bear Mountain development hope to spur debate with the release of a hefty report chronicling the Bear Mountain resort development in Langford.
“It’s to promote public dialogue,” said Zoe Blunt, spokeswoman for the Vancouver Island Community Forest Action Network, which produced the document.
“We noticed that when we asked people for [...]

Road bulding underway near Jordan River. Rally Thursday!

Trees are falling and rocks are being blasted for road materials, in preperation for Western Forest Products subdivisions, across from Sandcut Beach and a few kms from Jordan River.
Join us at Library Square at Noon this Thursday, July 10, and help save this land while there is still time.
While many of us are enjoying our [...]

Dire picture of B.C. wildlife, wilderness

Catherine Rolfsen, Vancouver Sun
A “groundbreaking” report on the state of B.C. wildlife and wilderness
to be released Wednesday by the provincial government paints a dire
picture, according to a scientist with the David Suzuki Foundation.
“Sadly, it’s going to show that, despite the assumption that most of
us have that live here that we have a bounty and a [...]

Details needed on Ellice Park shelter plan

Times Colonist
Burnside Gorge residents have sent a useful message to Victoria city council, even though their petition against a homeless shelter fell far short of the signatures required to force a referendum on the project.
The opponents collected about 3,000 signatures, about half the number required to send the project to referendum. (B.C. law requires signatures [...]

Residents use cars to block Tsawwassen power line work

(Sweet example of regular people using direct action that’s totally LEGAL!)
Vancouver Sun
METRO VANCOUVER - Tsawwassen residents claim to have blocked power-line construction workers from accessing their properties by legally parking cars on an access street.
“The trucks came and tried to get in and we wouldn’t move our cars,” said resident Tina Ryan, of the action [...]

Panhandler Lends Helping Hand

As soon as Jen Ferris reached out to touch the car window, she knew her Braille note-taker was gone. Her fingers felt only the cool touch of air and Ferris and her “seeing eye” guide dog Clipper were standing on crunchy broken glass.
The Braille note-taker had everything stored in it: years of notes from the [...]

Secret Factories for 2010

VANOC won’t tell sweatshop watchdogs where Olympics gear is made.
By Tom Sandborn TheTyee.ca
Organizers of the 2010 Olympics refuse to tell the public where gear for the games and Olympics-branded products are made, though critics say such secrecy makes it far harder to expose sweatshops in the Olympic supply chain.

Victoria’s First Really Really Free Market

Victoria is having it’s first “Really Really Free Market” and we’re looking for you to get involved…
Do you have a skill? A recipe? Seeds? or just old stuff that you want to share? Then contact rrfvictoria@resist.ca or Heather at 858-8370 or come out to the market on July 12th at the Fernwood Community Centre.

Wild Earth Rendezvous, August 25-31, 2008

Annual forest action training camp on BC’s coast. Share skills, meet great people, and defend the land! Hands-on workshops, networking and volunteer opportunities.
Wild Earth Camp - Volunteer opportunities for 2008
Join us in August for the campout in Bella Coola, on BC’s north coast. Details to be announced. Volunteers are needed!