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CFIA questions accuracy of lab that tests for salmon anemia
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has called into question one of the world's top reference laboratories over its detection of infectious salmon anemia virus (ISAv) in B.C. farmed salmon. Read more…
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Dzawada'enuxw First Nation to Christy Clark: Don't renew fish farm licences
A delegation from the Dzawada'enuxw First Nation in Kingcome Inlet will deliver an 11,000-signature petition to Premier Christy Clark's constituency office on Wednesday, November 14. The message: Don't renew open net-pen fish farm licences. Read more…
Donnelly asks Conservatives about Cohen Commission, gets no answer
Fin Donnelly, NDP MP for New Westminster-Coquitlam and Port Moody, rose in Question Period today to ask whether the government would heed the recommendations of the Cohen Commission on protection of fish habitat. He did not get an answer. Read more…
Salmon inquiry makes 75 suggestions to protect salmon, finds no 'smoking gun'
VANCOUVER - A public inquiry into the collapse of the Fraser River sockeye run recommends sweeping changes, but didn't come up with a single "smoking gun" that explains the salmon's disappearance. Read more…
Food bank use in Canada remains well above 2008 recession levels: report
OTTAWA - The number of Canadians depending on charity for food continues to grow, a new study being released today has found. Read more…
BC Agriculture Council to launch complaints hotline for farm workers
The B.C. Agriculture Council (BCAC) is in the process of setting up a complaints hotline for seasonal agricultural workers who travel from countries like Mexico and Jamaica to work on farms in the province.
The hotline is part of a larger initiative to improve B.C.'s seasonal agricultural workers program and be proactive about addressing complaints, according to BCAC communications person Cheryl Davie. Read more…
Salmon inquiry final report will be made public Wednesday
VANCOUVER - A report into the 2009 collapse of the Fraser River sockeye run will be made public this week after a public inquiry took two years to study what happened. Read more…
BC's 'farm to cafeteria' network goes national
The Public Health Association of B.C. has launched a national 'farm to cafeteria' network set on improving the quality and amount of local food in public institutions like schools, university campuses, and hospitals. network. Read more…
Try eating on $26 a week, challenges anti-poverty group
Raise the Rates, a poverty advocacy group based in Vancouver, is challenging B.C. politicians and citizens to eat on $26 per week for one week in October.
The Welfare Food Challenge is aimed at raising awareness about inadequate welfare rates in the province. Last year, NDP MLA Jagrup Brar took on a Raise the Rates challenge to live on $610 for a whole month, and reportedly lost 26 pounds in the process. This year, the group is challenging more people to do just one week on a "welfare diet." Read more…
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B.C. First Nation taking fight against fish farms to country's highest court
VANCOUVER - A B.C. First Nation is taking its fight against open-net fish farms to Canada's highest court. Read more…
Canadian Wheat Board monopoly ends with cheers and fears from farmers
SASKATOON -- Change is on the horizon for farmers as the Canadian Wheat Board's monopoly on western wheat and barley sales draws to an end. Read more…
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Call to resurrect 'Deconstructing Dinner' podcast as multimedia TV series
The creator of a popular podcast which ran on The Tyee from 2008 to 2009 has launched a fundraising campaign to resurrect it as an online-accessible multimedia television series. Read more…
Fraser River salmon shortage representative of West Coast trend: report
The decrease of spawning success rates in wild sockeye salmon observed in B.C.'s Fraser River is part of a widespread decrease of salmon abundance along the West Coast, according to a report published this morning in the Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. Read more…
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Wild migrating salmon likely infected their farmed cousins in B.C., say experts
VANCOUVER - Observers of the decades-long argument over fish farming in B.C. can now add one more shade of grey to the debate. Read more…
'Free My Grapes' bill moves on after MPs vote to revise outdated wine law
A unanimous vote by MPs has moved the country closer to wiping out a prohibition-era law that makes it illegal to carry a bottle of Canadian wine across a provincial boundary. Read more…
BC Premier Clark backtracks on promise to consult on CETA
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark has nixed a promise to consult with the public on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the European Union. Read more…
Committee chair's pesticide conspiracy email was 'impolitic', says recipient
Kootenay East MLA Bill Bennett seems to view environmentalists as a threat to freedom, said a person who received a blunt and dismissive email from him this week. Read more…
BC government balks at passing Animal Health Act
The controversial Animal Health Act is among four bills the British Columbia legislature will not have passed when the spring session ends today. Read more…
Despite public support for a BC pesticide ban, Clark waffles on promise
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark backtracked today on her promise to introduce a province-wide ban on the cosmetic use of pesticides, despite public support for such a ban. Read more…
Animal Health Act amendment to clarify who is meant by 'a person'
The British Columbia government is clarifying who it means by "a person" in a bill aimed at restricting people from sharing information about animal diseases, but is not acting on concerns raised by the province's information and privacy commissioner. Read more…
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