Co-founders of TheCanadian.org Rafe Mair and Damien Gillis joined Sean Holman of Public Eye Online on his Sunday CFAX radio program. The pair discussed a range of topics, including their new site, the state of the media today, and key environmental stories in BC - including fish farms and the plan to turn Fish Lake into a toxic dump for mining.

Dr. Tracy Lyster, of Citizens Against Urban Sprawl Society, discusses the ecological threats to Silvermere Island from a proposed sprawl housing development in Mission.

300 people filled Heritage Hall in Vancouver to hear about private river power and its threat to BC's spectacular Bute Inlet. In just over ten minutes, Rex tore to shreds the whole Campbell private power program, undermining the assumptions of endless growth that serve as the foundation to this house of cards. Peak oil, consumerism, limits to growth: these are tough topics - taboos even - but Rex boiled them down into simple, compelling logic that anyone can immediately grasp.

Let me lay out the options these two face: they’re either a) too dumb to understand what I, and bless her, Alexandra Morton (and others as the issue gathered steam) were telling them; or b) they deliberately refused to look at the evidence, refused to betray their corporate donors like Norway’s Marine Harvest, and for nearly a decade lied through their teeth to us the public.

Canada in Copenhagen

Written by Alexandria Mitchell - Thursday, 08 April 2010