Common Sense Canadian

Enter the Great Bear Rainforest

Common Sense Canadian — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:05:48 +0000

Starring grizzlies, eagles, humpback whales, and the legendary spirit bear! In 2010 Vancouver filmmaker Damien Gillis joined two separate week-long journeys by boat through BC's Great Bear Rainforest.

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GE's Bute Inlet Private Power Proposal - Update

Common Sense Canadian — Sat, 04 Dec 2010 00:30:03 +0000

An excellent summary by Lannie Keller from Friends of Bute Inlet of the campaign to stop the largest proposed private hydro power project in Canadian history - GE and Plutonic Power's plan to dam and divert 17 rivers at the head of Bute Inlet on the Sunshine Coast.

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Voices for BC's Environment - Highlights from the "Take Back Our BC" Tour

Common Sense Canadian — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:15:35 +0000

Highlights from two recent "Take Back Our BC" Tour events on November 7 - in Courtenay and on Quadra Island. Featuring Rafe Mair, Alexandra Morton, Damien Gillis, and John Snyder from CoalWatch Comox Valley.

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Corky Evans on Social Democracy

Common Sense Canadian — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 19:53:37 +0000

Must-see speech by retired Kootenay MLA Corky Evans at the Common Sense Canadian's "Take Back Our BC" townhall tour event in Nelson, BC. The inimitable Evans discusses globalization, the loss of our social democracy, and the need for citizens to become engaged in the political process to reclaim their environment and public resources.

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Historic Fraser Sockeye Fishery Caught in Hi-Def

Common Sense Canadian — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:09:33 +0000

In mid-September, Damien Gillis had the rare privilege to capture this year's astonishing sockeye fishery, off the south arm of the Fraser River.

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Joint Declaration from BC Environmental & Indigenous Leaders

Common Sense Canadian — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 19:01:05 +0000

On Oct 1 at the World Community Film Festival in Mission, BC, three prominent BC leaders - salmon biologist Alexandra Morton, acclaimed author and Greenpeace International co-founder Rex Weyler, and Chief Marilyn Baptiste of the Xeni Gwet'in First Nation - shared the stage to declare their mutual support for the important issues they are each championing.

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Rally for Betty & Harriet: Defying Injustice

Common Sense Canadian — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:03:23 +0000

She's been called a hero, a troublemaker, and the grandmother of BC's environmental movement - but now a new label is being applied to 82-year old Betty Krawczyk by Provincial Crown Counsel, as she appeals the 10-month sentence she served several years ago for protesting the desecration of a unique ecosystem in West Vancouver: that of a dangerous criminal, on par with men who rape their

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Close Encounter of the Whale Kind - Awesome Humpback Footage!

Common Sense Canadian — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:38:33 +0000

You must see this eye-popping footage of a recent rare close encounter with a humpback whale off the coast of BC's spectacular Great Bear Rainforest.

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Clayoquot Sound: Wild Salmon in Trouble

Common Sense Canadian — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:40:03 +0000

Return to the scene of BC's biggest environmental protest - more vulnerable today than ever. Wild salmon populations in Clayoquot Sound are collapsing, and the Wild Fish Conservancy is searching for answers, beginning with the open net salmon farms that clog the fjords of this ecological treasure.

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Stopping Oil Supertankers in Vancouver

Common Sense Canadian — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:35:41 +0000

Much has been made recently of the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline to Kitimat, but diid you know that massive tankers are already shipping oil from the Tar Sands through Burrard Inlet, putting the entire south coast in jeopardy? Or that current plans are to increase volumes to up to 10 tankers per week?

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Maude Barlow on Fish Lake and Canada's Water

Common Sense Canadian — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:46:11 +0000

Canadian water warrior and international environmental powerhouse Maude Barlow spoke recently to a crowd of several hundred in Vancouver on the plan to turn Fish Lake and possibly 20 other lakes across Canada into toxic dumps for mines.

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