Article by David Olive in the Toronto Sun. "The Earth didn’t move for the global news media with the FDA’s announcement, but it should have. The profit motive being what it is, pressure will intensify for approval of GM cattle, bacon, dairy products and grains, which like GM salmon will be cheaper to produce and in much greater quantity." Read article.

Article by Matthew Buchanan on the Transport Action BC site. "The provincial study on the future of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway... basically concludes that it is not worth investing any money in the railway corridor... The province, with help from the federal government will spend $1.184 billion on the South Fraser Perimeter Road (expressway). These road projects seem to get announced every week with no year-long half million dollar studies, but for non-highway projects the province isn’t interested in supporting them." Read article

Story from CBC News. "Coast guard officials say the merchant tanker Nanny, owned by Woodward's Oil Ltd., ran aground on a sandbar Wednesday in Simpson Strait, about 50 kilometres southwest of Gjoa Haven, a hamlet on King William Island in western Nunavut." Read article

Article by CBC News. "The documents show that senior bureaucrats in the B.C. finance ministry had briefed politicians on the HST as early as January 2009." Read article

Article by Jeff Nagel in the South Delta Leader.

"The coho eat feed made mainly from locally sourced herring meal.

"No antibiotics or vaccines are used.

"And unlike ocean-based net pen farms, there's no risk of pollution, disease spread, the proliferation of sea lice or escapees interbreeding with wild stocks."

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Article by Dan MacLennan in the Campbell River Courier-Islander. "The finfish aquaculture regulations are woefully inadequate to protect wild salmon", said Brian Gunn, President of the BC Wilderness Tourism Association (WTA). "They do not address the impacts that open net cage salmon farms have on the wild salmon stocks. For example, there are no requirements in the current proposed regulations for the salmon farming industry to monitor the health of juvenile wild salmon for impacts due to disease and sea lice around farms during their out migration. In fact there is little in the proposed regulations to protect wild salmon. DFO seem to have forgotten what should be their primary mandate, which is to protect our wild fisheries." Read article

Article by Andrew Nikiforuk in The Tyee. "Not too many people in the oil patch speak honestly about the world's most powerful industry, but (Matt) Simmons did. He didn’t let the money, bullshit or arrogance cloud his judgment. Or his basic reading of geology for that matter." Read article

Article by Andrew Nikiforuk in The Tyee. "Despite repeated government claims that the world's largest energy project doesn't contaminate the Athabasca River, a new scientific study released today shows that air pollution from the oil sands industry combined with extensive watershed destruction has released a highly toxic brew of heavy metals into northern waterways." Read article

Article by Elizabeth James in the North Shore News. David Hutton: "The Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act, which is supposed to protect whistleblowers and ensure that wrongdoing is exposed, is being used instead to obscure the nature and extent of wrongdoing and to protect the wrongdoers from being publicly identified." Read article

Article by Michael Smyth in The Province about Auditor-General John Doyle. "Unfortunately for the Liberals, this sharp-fanged watchdog is unlikely to stop biting into the government's backside anytime soon. But I'd love to see him take a dingo-sized chomp out of the NDP's hide, too. Doyle is currently reviewing MLA expense accounts — an area where both parties need a good old Aussie butt-kicking." Read article

Article by Tom Zeller Jr. in the New York Times. "The Royal Bank of Canada, responding to intense pressure from environmental advocates denouncing the bank’s financing of oil sands projects, hosted 18 international banks in Toronto in February for 'a day of learning' on the “regulatory, social and environmental issues” surrounding the oil sands." Read article

Article by David Ebner and Wendy Stueck in the Globe and Mail. "Warmer ocean water is believed to have reduced the amount of food for sockeye, and colder water recently might have helped this year’s massive run. The proliferation of fish farms on B.C.’s coast has been blamed for spreading sea lice, and other diseases that prey on young sockeye." Read article

Article by Robin Mathews at ViveleCanada.ca. "The New Lawlessness (subscribed to, I allege, by Gordon Campbell, Stephen Harper, and Ed Stelmach in Canada) is nothing more than a seamless alliance between governments and huge private corporations to elude law – where corporate interests are pursuing unregulated pollution, cheapest exploitation of resources, get-rich-quick manufacture of fraudulent securities, dubious ownership transfers, sales of non-existent commodities – or, in fact, any action or design that previously would be (and now should be) criminal in private corporate behaviour intended to enrich Corporation ‘principals’ at the expense of the public." Read article

Article by Bill Tieleman in The Tyee. Read article

Article by BBC News. "In a message posted on his video blog on Thursday, Mr Medvedev said he had ordered the suspension because 'our people, from the governing United Russia party to united opposition groups to circles of experts, are saying this demands more analysis'." Read article

Article by Carrie Tait in the Financial Post. "After two years of revamping its PR strategy, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers hopes it can trump, even pre-empt, its critics' charges." Read article

Article by Chris McGreal in The Guardian. "The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a 60-day period of consultation and public meetings over whether to permit a GM strain of salmon to be eaten by humans, even though it has been called a 'frankenfish' by critics." Read article

Article by Guo Qiang and Fang Yunyu in Global Times. "Traffic authorities were still struggling to cope with days-long congestion on a major national expressway, nine days after traffic slowed to a snail's pace, and nearby residents are profiting on the latest traffic snarl by overcharging drivers for food." Read article

Article by Andrew Nikiforuk in The Tyee. "Calling for sweeping reforms and strong federal leadership on water science, the referenced 49-page report concluded that the Canadian government clearly lacks 'proper knowledge on the state and dynamics of the regions water resources and how they will react to years of oil sands mining, both surface and in situ.'" Read article

Article by Rafe Mair in The Tyee. "The picture (Erik Andersen) paints is of a once rock solid Crown corporation placed on the road to fiscal ruin by the Campbell government." Read article