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The Results Are In: Wild Salmon Need Action Now

Gwen Barlee | Posted 01.01.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Read More: Salmon, Bill C-38, Fraser River, Salmon Farms, Climate Change, Dfo, Cohen Commission, Bc Business, Bruce Cohen, Fraser River Salmon, Sockeye Salmon, BC Salmon, Fish, Fraser River Salmon Inquiry, Canada British Columbia News
Gwen Barlee

The Cohen report is a gift; a well-researched and valuable tool by which to recover wild salmon, not only the Fraser River sockeye runs, but salmon populations across B.C. But its recommendations must be implemented, funded and enforced. The ball is now in the court of the federal government.

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Salmon Report Skewers Feds

CP | Dene Moore and Tamsyn Burgmann, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.30.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Read More: Aquaculture, Video, Cp, Fish Farms, Cohen Commission Report, Salmon Farming, Sockeye Salmon Decline, Bc-Politics, BC Politics, Cohen Inquiry, Salmon Commission, Sockeye Salmon Disappear, Cohen Commission, Salmon Inquiry, Canada British Columbia News

VANCOUVER - A sitting judge spent three years and $26 million looking for answers around the collapse of a Fraser River sockeye salmon run, but before...

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Salmon Activist Goes Rogue

CP | Keven Drews, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.25.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Read More: Video, Cp, BC Salmon, Fish, Alexandra Morton Salmon, Alexandra Morton Salmon Activist, Bc Salmon Inquiry, BC Politics, Cohen Inquiry, Salmon Inquiry, Cohen Commission, Alexandra Morton, Canada British Columbia News

VANCOUVER - One of British Columbia's most vocal advocates for the preservation of wild salmon says she's not waiting to find out from a government in...

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Science Must Be Free From Political Interference

David Suzuki | Posted 10.17.2011 | Canada
Read More: UN Rotterdam Convention, Cohen Commission, Fraser River, Climate Change Deniers, Climate Change, Sockeye Salmon, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Canadian Science Writers? Association, Asbestos, Environment Canada, Environmental Protection Agency, Kristi Miller, Kristi Miller Salmon Report, Canada News
David Suzuki

Science is playing second fiddle to political concerns in Canada and the U.S. Recently, we've seen more "muzzling" of scientists, funding cuts, and an increasing disregard for science in policy-making. This scientific antipathy could not come at a worse time.

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Swimming Upstream Against Government Secrecy

Donald Lenihan | Posted 09.28.2011 | Canada Politics
Read More: Salmon, Scientific Research, Privy Council Office, Government Secrecy, Government Openness, Sockeye Salmon, Open Government, Long Form Census, Fraser River, British Columbia, Kristi Miller, Cohen Commission, Canada Politics News
Donald Lenihan

Officials prevented Kristi Miller from speaking to journalists about her possible explanation for salmon stock depletion. Unfortunately, this appears to be part of an emerging pattern in which the federal government is seeking to subvert or discredit the role of science in policy-making.

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