News Releases 2004
- December 01, 2004
Lisa Stewart, Westerly News, December 1, 2004
With a number of reports floating around about the state of fishing in BC, Fisheries and Oceans Canada says it is consulting with stakeholders to gauge what should happen next.
- November 18, 2004
James Vassallo, Prince Rupert Daily News, November 18, 2004
A new study investigating the impacts of federal policies on the fishery industry is echoing what fishermen have been arguing for years — quotas kill communities.
- November 15, 2004
Joel Baglole, Vancouver Sun, November 15, 2004
Rural communities along British Columbia's coast are losing access to their traditional fishing grounds as ownership of the province's commercial fishing industry becomes increasingly concentrated in urban centres such as Vancouver and Victoria, says a new study by Canadian and U.S. environmental groups.
- November 15, 2004
NOVEMBER 15, 2004 (VANCOUVER) — For the first time, a new study investigating the impacts of federal fisheries policies on communities and conservation in British Columbia has quantified what many in rural B.C. already know: the ownership of commercial fishing licences and quota is being consolidated in metropolitan areas.
- November 14, 2004
NOVEMBER 15, 2004 - Catch-22: Conservation, Communities and the Privatization of B.C. Fisheries is a new study that investigates the economic, social and ecological impacts of federal fisheries licensing policy, especially those promoting individual fishing quotas (IFQs).
- November 11, 2004
NOVEMBER 12, 2004, NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C.—The Tsleil-Waututh First Nation is announcing today that the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has certified the Tsleil-Waututh’s logging operations on 280 hectares of forestland in the Indian River Valley north of Vancouver.
- September 20, 2004
Toronto, Ontario, September 21, 2004 – Imagine’s 2004 New Spirit of Community Partnership Awards were announced today at an event held in Toronto during the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy’s Annual Symposium.
- August 05, 2004
Linda Lafleur, Prince Rupert Daily News, August 6, 2004
"People of the Rock", is the English translation of the Tsimshian word Kitlope. These people have worked for many years to bring a mortuary pole back home. Taken to a museum in Stockholm, Sweden in 1929, the Haisla people want it back.
- May 10, 2004
MAY 11, 2004, VANCOUVER - Cumberland Wood Industries began shipping value-added laminated wood products to Japan this month thanks to the help of Ecotrust Canada.
- February 04, 2004
Established in August of 2003, the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) is set to transform the country's architecture and construction industries as part of the growing conservation economy movement that's taking root in B.C. Ecotrust Canada is one of six environmental NGOs which have become members of the organization, whose mandate is to certify the sustainability of buildings.
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