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Painstaking work done to restore Burrard Inlet.
The Tsleil-Waututh Nation took years to rehabilitate the area. After a century of industrial use, it was almost a dead zone. Burrard Inlet is now teeming with life. And now the BC government and Ottawa want to destroy it to more fully load dilbit tankers. This week theTsleil-Waututh Nation (TWN) filed an application for Judicial Review of the Second Narrows Dredging. #canada #marine-habitats #pipelines
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Restoring Burrard Inlet with Treaty, Lands and Resources, siʔáḿθɘt School Youth, & Partner Organizations - Tsleil-Waututh Nation

Tsleil-Waututh Nation's Treaty, Lands and Resources (TLR) department has recently completed several marine restoration projects that took place over four years in protecting Burrard Inlet.
Vanessa Grondin (Tsleil-Waututh Nation)
#canada #Pipelines #marine-habitats

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Why an Alberta chief accused the premier of treason

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He walked through how he got there: talking to legal counsel, conducting his own research, then bringing a formal presentation to the chiefs at the table. He said he didn’t take the word lightly.


- Reporting by Brandi Morin #Alberta Separatism #Alberta Politics

The Chief Who Called Treason: One-on-One With Desmond Bull

Explaining the unprecedented motion against Danielle Smith, and what he says is really at stake.
Brandi Morin (Indigenous Insider)
#Alberta
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An AI detection company found that amount of AI content that users actually see in their day-to-day browsing is shockingly high.

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LinkedIn and X Are Flooded With AI Spam, Browsing Data Suggests

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You'd think one $36 billion pipeline boondoggle would be more than enough, but Canada is going to make that a double
“Despite press releases and multiple empty promises from federal Liberals, there is no private sector proponent for Alberta’s new proposed pipeline,” added May. “The federal Crown corporation TMX, already a major waste of public funds after spending $36 billion to build the Trans Mountain expansion, is now a 50 per cent owner of any new pipeline. The Alberta government holds the other 50 per cent, with private sector pipeline company Pembina’s minor involvement used as a fig leaf.
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The Canada-B.C. MOU attempts to mislead the public and media into thinking B.C.’s interests were meaningfully considered. Central to that appearance is public funding for an ecological disaster known as the Roberts Bank Terminal 2 expansion. The expansion has been opposed by leading scientists, the Longshoremen’s Union, many First Nations, and the expert review conducted by the federal government itself.

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Alberta-Canada-B.C. pipeline deal is the “deal from hell” – Green Party Of Canada

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Late June Birding Update - Nature Canada Birdathon
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Petition to sign - share please.
Ottawa is gutting pesticide rules. And they’re betting you won’t notice - Ecojustice | Ecojustice ecojustice.ca/news/ottawa-is-g… #pesticides #canada

Ottawa is gutting pesticide rules. And they’re betting you won’t notice

Hidden inside two budget bills is the biggest rollback of pesticide protections Canada has seen in a generation. There was no major announcement, just a quiet burial in the Spring Economic Update 2026…
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Tree planting in Portugal
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Wildfire recovery on land that belongs to no one – but serves everyone

Wildfire recovery on private land is often slow and fragmented. In Portugal, we’re working on common land, managed by local communities, which changes everything. Sara visited our project to find out more.
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Give themselves raises and cost of living increases....
..raise rents and reduce incomes for the disabled, while implying they are bums who should just get a job despite their disabilities. The MLAs' rent allowance is greater than the entire income of a disabled person, which is now it is to be reduced further. I would like to spit on every single Alberta UCP MLA. Shame shame shame you poor excuses for human beings.
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AISH Helped Me Survive. Its Replacement May Push Me Into Poverty | By Leif Gregersen | Forward Weekly

Forward Weekly feature for June 21, 2026.
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Kharkiv, Ukraine
A woman hugs her cat after it was found during search and rescue works in the damaged residential building after a Russian missile attack.

Photograph: Andrii Marienko/AP

#photography
#Ukraine
#pets
#cats

A woman hugs her rescued cat.
#Photography #cats #pets #ukraine

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Outrage: FIFA awarded exclusive World Cup Burmese rights to Mytel, owned by junta
Please share this email campaign.
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Mytel profits help fund the Burmese military and senior members of the Burmese military. Burma Campaign UK has also received reports from local communities that Mytel also plays a role in facilitating internet connections for scam centres in Burma, which not only steal money from people all over the world, but are also linked to human trafficking, forced labour, organ harvesting and funding the Burmese military and armed groups associated with the Burmese military. 

Tell FIFA to cancel World Cup football contract with the Burmese military

FIFA have given World Cup football rights to a company co-owned by the Burmese military. Now if football fans want to watch the World Cup, they are forced to pay the Burmese military to do so.
Burma Campaign UK
#world #Myanmar #human #FIFA #burma

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From HELP to "compassionate intervention"
When the changes officially take effect on July 1, police will have expanded authority to detain people who have not been accused or convicted of a crime.


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#alberta #homelessness #police

Out of Sight: Alberta Law Enforcement Returns to Policing Poverty | By James Hardwick | Forward Weekly

Forward Weekly feature for June 7, 2026.
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Blood river
The vivid red colour of the Betsiboka River Estuary in Madagascar comes from iron-rich silt in the river water. After heavy rains, red soil bleeds into the river from neighbouring lands. Upstream, the river is surrounded by mangroves, but nearly a century of logging in Madagascar’s rainforests and coastal mangroves has caused erosion of the riverbanks and clogging of coastal waterways with sediment.

Kai Yokoyama

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#rivers
#Madagascar
#AltText

A striking, top-down satellite photograph capturing the Betsiboka River Estuary in Madagascar as it empties into the deep blue-black waters of the Mozambique Channel. The dominant feature of the image is the river itself, which flows with a shocking, vivid blood-red color caused by massive amounts of iron-rich sediment. Moving from the bottom right toward the top center, the river branches out into a complex, sprawling network of dense, braided streams. These red channels cut aggressively through the landscape like a system of human arteries, branching outward into the surrounding land before merging back into a singular, thick torrent that chokes the main estuary opening. The land on either side is a patchwork of mottled green vegetation, rugged brown ridges, and eroded, sandy terrain. To the left, a completely separate, smaller river system also bleeds deep crimson into the landscape, snaking out toward the coast. Where the main river finally breaches the coastline at the top of the frame, the intense red silt balloons outward into the dark ocean water, creating a ominous, blooming cloud of red sediment that visually demonstrates the severe erosion of the island's topsoil.
#Photography #Madagascar #alttext #rivers

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What's wrong with African Parks?
"African Parks wants to make us disappear" - Baka woman raped by parks ranger, Congo #AfricanParks #Congo #indigenous #Baka #PrinceHarry
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Prince Harry Is Lending His Name and His Dollars to the Rape and Torture of Indigenous People. He Calls It Conservation.

He took a humanitarian award. The Baka Indigenous Peoples took the violence.
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Irreplacable rainforest and culture being destroyed for copper

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#Ecuador #indigenous #mining

A story all too familiar to a Canadian indigenous journalist

But this is our history happening now in Ecuador. The first road into this place was only built 10 years ago.

This Is What the End of the World Looks Like

Her name is Nazli. She was just born into one of the last sacred places on Earth. They’ve given her people until 2027 to leave.
Brandi Morin (Indigenous Insider)

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Had to update slides for a presentation tonight, so I'm sharing the latest numbers showing how bad the situation in orbit is getting. There are now 10,413 Starlink satellites, more than about 2/3 of ALL satellites (15,623 total, numbers from planet4589.org/space/stats/act…).

The CRASH Clock outerspaceinstitute.ca/crashcl… is down to 2.5 days.

Jonathan's Space Report | Space Statistics

Jonathan McDowell's new homepage
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