Alberta grizzlies down to just 580 bears

Will they become a Canadian threatened species?
by Ralph Maughan, wolves.wordpress.com

To many Americans, Canada is still the “great white north” where multitudes of wildlife live in wilderness and “tree huggers” silly enough to want to see a bear or a wolf can go a see one behind almost every tree.
The reality is massive development, and especially [...]

Are Manitoba First Nations Wasting Tax Dollars?

by Chris Johnson
So I’m watching the news, and I see this story about a house fire on a
reserve in Manitoba that killed a young boy.
Is there an overcrowding issue, the CBC asks? Many seems to think so.
And now for the Federal government’s response, courtesy Vic Toews,
Manitoba’s senior cabinet minister in Ottawa. The dishonorable Mr. Toews
suggests [...]

Shelter scans fingerprints of homeless

-cbc.ca
A Calgary shelter is scanning the fingerprints of its homeless clients, citing problems with gang members and drug dealers sneaking into the facility.
Dermot Baldwin, head of the Calgary Drop-In Centre, said people who have been barred from the shelter use fake identification to get in.
The homeless shelter is testing a new $150,000 security system that [...]

MPs urge seal skin for Canadian Olympic uniforms

(As if we didn’t already know that our so-called ‘leaders’ are absolutely insane, we were treated to this front page headline. Further articles reveal that the Canadian Olympic team is oppossed to this idea, as anyone in their right mind should be.
I seriously don’t understand why the Canadian government is so worked up about the [...]

Calgary Bulldozes ‘Working Poor’ Homeless Camp

-cbc.ca
City crews have bulldozed a camp set up by homeless people in a northwest park that police say has been a problem for years.
After receiving a complaint about the camp in Shouldice Athletic Park on Home Road, police said they gave the residents 24-hours to remove what they needed before moving in on Wednesday afternoon.
The [...]

The Seal Hunt is Dead! Long Live the Seals!

-Sea Shepherd
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has lost a ship but we are winning the war to save the seals.
On Friday, the European ambassadors approved a European Union proposal to ban imports of furs and all seal products. This moves the 27-nation bloc much closer to the final decision to impose the ban and final [...]

Montreal in bid to unmask protesters

Activists say ban a blow to freedom of speech, but police say it would deter violent protests
Andrew Chung, Toronto Star
MONTREAL–The last protest organized by the Collective Opposed to Police Brutality saw fast-food outlet windows smashed, at least one car firebombed, and beer bottles hurled at heavily armed police. It saw a convenience store looted, and [...]

Forest Ethics makes wolf slaughter the best way to keep loggers logging

-Forest Policy Research
On October 16, 2007, the BC government dazzled the world with the
announcement of a “partnership” to save British Columbia’s endangered mountain caribou.
The partners — BC government, logging companies, snowmobile clubs, heli-ski businesses and the Mountain Caribou Project (MCP) — had agreed to protect 2.2 million hectares of high quality mountain caribou [...]

Judge to rule on pipelines on native land

By PAUL TURENNE, Winnipeg Sun
The fate of three multi-billion-dollar pipelines, as well as the future role of First Nations in approving such projects, rests in the hands of a Winnipeg judge.
A federal court hearing wrapped up Friday afternoon in a downtown Winnipeg courtroom, where lawyers representing southern Manitoba First Nations, energy companies, the federal [...]

Activists train to protest oilsands growth

-Edmonton Journal
Twenty aspiring activists received a lesson on how to create a human blockade by intertwining arms and legs as part of a weekend oilsands protest training conference here.
The class was one of many seminars offered as part of the conference hosted by such organizations as Greenpeace, the Sierra Club Canada and the Council of [...]