aggregated from: DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds

Youth climate activists struck again last week, calling on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to stop the proposed Alberta Clipper pipeline that would suck filthy tar sands into the U.S.” from Canada.Last Friday, the Avaaz Action Factory, a loo...

topics: global-warming, greenpeace, pollution, protestors

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

Guest blogger: Gabriel Yiu, former BC NDP candidate for Vancouver Fraserview To clearly stand out a guest blogger entry, all such headlines will begin with [GB].After the election, the BC Liberal government has been facing issue after issue that ques...

topics: bc-rail, burnaby, business, candidate, election

aggregated from: Beyond Robson

Supporters of Iranian protestors gather in downtown Vancouver. They came together on a night when Michael Jackson rules headlines . Supporters of Iranian protestors vie for the attention of the media who only months ago were calling for Iran to be b...

topics: downtown, protestors

aggregated from: English Bay Banner

Today en route to the joy of grocery shopping I encountered two protest groups. The first was mostly comprised of native people by Abbott Street in the downtown eastside rallying and singing for homes not war affordable housing. An inarguab...

topics: downtown, downtown-eastside, premier, protestors, writer

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

The residents of Bridgeview in North Surrey have been protesting this week against the destruction of houses in their neighborhood to facilitate the construction of the South Fraser Perimeter Road. It is expected that heavy machinery will be brought ...

topics: business, elected, gateway, planning, political

aggregated from: Stephen Rees's blog

Thanks to Eric Doherty on the Livable Blog I have a list of stories that covered the announcement yesterday of the SFPR.He gives prominence to the Province and the Surrey Now because they at least gave some coverage to what the people waving placar...

topics: gateway, protestors, surrey

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

An extremely funny and insightful post from macedoniaonline.eu: Please read on, you won't regard :) China Fakes Olympics - US Fakes Most Everything Are you enjoying watching the fake Olympics? By fake, of course, I'm referring to all the...

topics: economy, health-care, olympics, protestors

aggregated from: Green Party of BC blogs

news item: Canadian CBC radio news reported on a Greenpeace protest at the tarsands in Alberta July 25.Protestors capped a pipe carrying waste to a toxic pond. The issue was framedfor the news by the activists as saving ducks . CBC radio framed thei...

topics: greenpeace, protestors

aggregated from: Chinese in Vancouver

I've got an interview with the Vancouver bureau chief of the Macleans magazine last week. Here's what they've published today on their online version. (I blushed when I read the intro :P) -------------------------------------------------------------...

topics: business, olympics, protestors

aggregated from: Metroblogging Vancouver

Jeffery Simpson: Bhutto assassinated.... Originally uploaded by Mig_R. Metroblogging Islamabad [mbi] & [mbi]:We never thought 2007 will say its final goodbyes on this note. On and off, I & many other bloggers shared our thoughts on the suicide...

topics: political, protestors