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[coalalert] Compliance Energy 2013 year end financial report
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- Published on Thursday, 24 April 2014 08:20
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Compliance Energy posts record losses
Compliance Energy Corp. posted its 2013 financial statements on April 23, 2014, reporting record losses and a dire financial situation for the company.
Its working capital going into 2014 is a deficit of $633,000, made up primarily 
from a cash position of $207,000 and liabilities of $875,000.
Read more: [coalalert] Compliance Energy 2013 year end financial report
[Quaker-Concern] Spring 2014 Quaker Concern
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 April 2014 17:00
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Dear Friends,
The Spring 2014 issue of Quaker Concern is here! Inside you'll find news and updates from CFSC as well as articles on:
- the Norweigan prison system and prison farms in Canada,
- CFSC supported peacebuilding work in the DR Congo,
- resource extraction and Indigenous rights in BC, and
- updates on Canada's treatment of conscientious objectors to war who come here to escape persecution.
Defend our climate May 10!
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 April 2014 17:00
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Defend our climate May 10!
To ,First of all, Happy Earth Day! I hope you took time today to celebrate nature and do something positive for the planet.
Unfortunately, it seems the Canadian government doesn't feel the same way. Today they announced they have downgraded protection of the North Pacific humpback whale, at the very time that the Enbridge pipeline and tankers project would pose a serious threat to their survival and recovery. It is yet another piece of a larger pattern of the federal government gutting environmental regulations, muzzling scientists, denying public participation, and disregarding their own laws for species-a-risk, all in the service of promoting tar sands pipelines.
Yet, while the politicians give the permits, it is the people who give the permission, and British Columbians from all walks of life have been clear that there is no social license for Enbridge in this province. The Federal Cabinet is expected to make a decision in June on Enbridge's Northern Gateway proposal, and now is the time to continue making our voices heard.
, on May 10, join others across the country for a National Day of Action against runaway fossil fuel development and subsequent climate change. Find an event near you or organize one in your community.
upcoming events
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 April 2014 12:00
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VIPIRG announces:
1) VIPIRG is hiringa student for the position of Disorientation Days Coordinator. Application deadline is April 25, 2014 at midnight. Please e-mail resume and cover letter to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The position pays $15.12, begins May 19, 2014 and runs for 420 hours. Further details: http://www.vipirg.ca/jobs/
2) At 3:45 pm on Saturday, April 26th at Open Space (510 Fort St), Wandering Eye Media presents 100 Layers of Beige, a short documentary that explores the disappearance of graffiti through the eyes of art critics, graffiti writers, neighbourhood residents, tourists, teachers and city workers.
100 Layers of Beige is a film by Kay Gallivan and Zsofin Sheehy sponsored by VIPIRG. Admission is by donation, and no registration is required.
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Seb Bonet
Research Coordinator
Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group (VIPIRG)
Phone: (250) 472-4386
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Web: www.vipirg.ca
Office: UVic student union building room...
Take Back the CLC, Victoria! Meet Hassan Husseini - WEDNESDAY @ 5PM
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Take Back the CLC, Victoria!
Meet Hassan Husseini
Wednesday, April 23, 5-7pm Smiths Pub, 777 Courtenay Street
Join this Meet & Greet with Hassan Husseini, a militant trade unionist who is standing for election as President of the Canadian Labour Congress.
After more than a decade of austerity under Harper and his predecessors, it's time for Canada's working class and its organizations to mobilize with new leadership and a new, forward-looking vision for the country and working people.
All Welcome!
To learn more about Hassan Husseini and his campaign to lead the CLC, visit: http://takebackclc.ca/
Read more: Take Back the CLC, Victoria! Meet Hassan Husseini - WEDNESDAY @ 5PM
Fun in the Food Forest
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 April 2014 11:00
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Come have fun and develop hands-on experience with one of Canada's most experienced forest gardeners in our one-acre cold climate food forest when you join us at Clear Sky Center for this exciting new workshop.
Fun in the Food Forest
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Sat, May 10 9am-5pm & Sun, May 11, 2014 9am-4pm 
Clear Sky, Cranbrook, B.C., Canada Fee: $299
Price includes course fees and lunches on both days.
Accommodation and Meals (Optional): Accommodation and meals are also available (fees additional) for those who would like to stay at the center on May 9th or 10th.
Accommodation : $35 + 13% tax per night
Dinner : $14 + 5% GST, Breakfast : $9 + 5% GST
Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for accommodation
Fun in the Food Forest includes:
- A special invitation to celebrate the first anniversary of our one-acre food forest, planted in May 2013.
- Discovering how Food Forests can benefit you, your land and well-being as well as our community.
- The inside scoop on the design, site and layout principles of the one acre cold climate food forest at Clear Sky.
- First -hand experience and in the field learning tools. You will explore with Richard, assessment of how the food forest over-wintered and how to address soil and individual plant needs in your initial years of growing a food forest and or garden.
- Hands-on learning and explorations of how to use and further develop an abundant and diverse supply of food and medicinals in the formative years of a food forest.
- The opportunity to make tinctures and other simple products from your garden or young food forest.
[coalalert] VANCOUVER SUN: " TECK TO SLASH COSTS AMID GLOBAL COAL GLUT"
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 April 2014 08:00
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[evoz] reminder cafe this Friday
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- Published on Wednesday, 23 April 2014 06:00
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CAFÉ SIMPATICO Friday April
25
1923 Fernwood Road
Doors open 7
pm Music 7:30 Speaker 8 pm
An illustrated talk by
Theresa Wolfwood, recently returned from
Western Sahara refugee
camps in Algeria.
BEYOND the
VEIL of SAND: Saharawi people in exile & under
occupation
followed by discussion of Canadian connections &
action suggestions
Presented by
Victoria Central America Support Committee & co-sponsored
by the
Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation
& Victoria
Friends of Western Sahara
By donation… refreshments… fait trade
coffee
Info: bbcf(at)bbcf.ca
[Uvic-sustainability] News and Events for week of April 22nd
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 14:00
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Happy Earth Day everyone!
Thinking about how you could do more to reduce your carbon footprint? UVic’s Gustavson’s School of Business has created a wonderful Low-Carbon Culture Helplist to guide how we can all conserve energy and reduce waste in the workplace and at home.
NEWS
Tom Pederson of UVic-led Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions is quoted in various media stories regarding the content of documents obtained by the Canadian Press that show how staff inside the BC Ministry of the Environment have warned the environment minister about the potentially huge increases in greenhouse gas emissions from the LNG fracking process. The biggest concern is the often under-reported amount of methane, a gas 21 times more deadly to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, that is released during the...
Read more: [Uvic-sustainability] News and Events for week of April 22nd
VIPIRG is Hiring and Short Doc Premier
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- Published on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 13:20
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1) VIPIRG is hiring for the position of Disorientation Days Coordinator. Application deadline is April 25, 2014 at midnight. Please e-mail resume and cover letter to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The position pays $15.12, begins May 19, 2014 and runs for 420 hours. Further details: http://www.vipirg.ca/jobs/
2) At 3:45 pm on Saturday, April 26th at Open Space (510 Fort St), Wandering Eye Media presents 100 Layers of Beige, a short documentary that explores the disappearance of graffiti through the eyes of art critics, graffiti writers, neighbourhood residents, tourists, teachers and city workers.
100 Layers of Beige is a film by Kay Gallivan and Zsofin Sheehy sponsored by VIPIRG. Admission is by donation, and no registration is required.
--
Seb Bonet
Research Coordinator
Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group (VIPIRG)
Phone: (250) 472-4386
Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Web: www.vipirg.ca
Office: UVic student union building room B122
Mail: PO Box 3035 Stn CSC, Victoria, BC,...
Exposing the Invisible: host a screening?
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- Published on Monday, 21 April 2014 22:00
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My name is Ling Luther and I am from the Tactical Technology
Collective. I am writing to tell you about our film series, Exposing
the Invisible, which is being screened worldwide by groups like
yourselves. I think the people involved with the Occupy Movement would
be interested in the content of these films (e.g. citizen activism,
exposing corrupted corporate power, corporate landgrabbing, house
demolitions, "invisible" warfare), and I would be pleased if you
wanted to host a screening in Victoria.
Please continue reading for more information and contact me if you are
interested in hosting a screening (or you can direct me to anyone who
might be), and I can answer any questions you may have.
We started this project in 2013, where we produced 3 short documentary
films, 7 video sketches and 20 in-depth interviews, and brought
together over 80 resources. There are three films in the series that
tell the personal stories of those working at the new frontiers of
investigation: one about the methods that an inspiring investigative
reporter and his team use to expose organised crime and corrupted
corporate power; the second about three individuals who use innovative
tools and tactics to develop their own investigations into the war in
Syria, landgrabbing in Lebanon and house demolitions in Palestine; the
third explores the physical, moral and political invisibility of US
drone warfare in Pakistan.
The films can be watched and downloaded here for free:
https://exposingtheinvisible.org/films/.
The current list of screenings can be found here:
https://exposingtheinvisible.org/screenings/. All the content we made
available is licensed under creative commons, which means - take it,
use it, remix it, embed it and watch it. You can pick any film or its
parts, add your own content, invite guests, set the topic, make the
screenings last 30 or 120 minutes - all up to you.
Kind regards,
Ling
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Ling Luther
Screening Coordinator
Exposing the Invisible
https://exposingtheinvisible.org/screenings
Tactical Technology Collective
[evoz] Merli Vanegas' mother , the Red Riding Hood
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 May 2014 15:40
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At 71, Merli Vanegas’s mother, otherwise known in the Chacao neighbourhood as “Red Riding Hood” shows that the revolutionary spirit gets better and more creative with age,….like or very own Ragging Grannies…..maybe we should invite her to Victoria?
Carlos Flores
British Columbia, Canada
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32nd annual Earth Day Walk
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- Published on Thursday, 17 April 2014 12:20
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Join us for the 32nd annual Earth Day Walk
Saturday, April 26th - gather at 11:30 am Join fellow NDPers at we walk together to honour the preservation of our planet.
Meet up at Centennial Square @ 11:30 am. Look for the Lower Island NDP Banner. Parade starts at 12 noon.
Wear your orange loud & proud!
Come visit us at the Earth Day NDP TENT
Stop by our BIG ORANGE TENT and let’s talk about working together to make this a better world - for all Friday, April 25th & Saturday, April 26th Friday (7-9:30 pm) & Saturday (noon-8:30 pm)
St. Ann’s Academy, 835 Humboldt Street Celebrating where we live, eat, work, play and study!
Violence in Venezuela
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 April 2014 22:00
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Hi friends,
On March 12 we held a public event in Victoria. Our guests were Merli Vanegas, the Venezuelan Consul General from Vancouver and her assistant Maria Stella Paredes. Our organization was trying to bring some balance to this community regarding the present political situation in Venezuela which has been negatively portrayed in very biased, anti-government media coverage. Merli and Maria Stella spoke eloquently about recent violent demonstrations and blockades that have been taking place in only 13 of the wealthiest areas in a huge country that has several hundred districts. They explained that the violence has been perpetrated by affluent Venezuelans supported by extreme right wing elements backed by US and other Western agents attempting to bring the government down. Most of Venezuelans are poor, but actually support the government which they have shown by repeatedly electing Chavistas and their programs over...
[evoz] Violence in Venezuela
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- Published on Thursday, 17 April 2014 06:20
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Hi friends,
On March 12 we held a public event in Victoria. Our guests were Merli Vanegas, the Venezuelan Consul General from Vancouver and her assistant Maria Stella Paredes. Our organization was trying to bring some balance to this community regarding the present political situation in Venezuela which has been negatively portrayed in very biased, anti-government media coverage. Merli and Maria Stella spoke eloquently about recent violent demonstrations and blockades that have been taking place in only 13 of the wealthiest areas in a huge country that has several hundred districts. They explained that the violence has been perpetrated by affluent Venezuelans supported by extreme right wing elements backed by US and other Western agents attempting to bring the government down. Most of Venezuelans are poor, but actually support the government which they have shown by repeatedly electing Chavistas and their programs over...
[evoz] Cafe next Friday April 25
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- Published on Thursday, 17 April 2014 07:00
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1923 Fernwood Road
Doors open 7 pm Music 7:30 Speaker 8 pm
An illustrated talk by Theresa Wolfwood, recently returned from
Western Sahara refugee camps in Algeria.
BEYOND the VEIL of SAND
Saharawi people in exile & under Occupation
Presented by Victoria Central America Support Committee & co-sponsored
by the Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation & Victoria Friends of Western
Sahara
By donation… refreshments… our own fait trade coffee Info: // "'>bbcf(at)bbcf.ca
This spring, think about the bees
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Socia Justice Film Night
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- Published on Wednesday, 16 April 2014 11:00
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"THE SHOCK DOCTRINE"
7:00pm Thursday, April 172994 Douglas (BCGEU Hall) Victoria
Admission by Donation
From acclaimed filmmakers Michael Winterbottom (The Trip, The Killer Inside Me) and Mat Whitecross (The Road to Guantanamo), and based on Naomi Klein's provocative bestselling book of the same name, The Shock Doctrine is a gripping and incisive deconstruction of how radical free market policies have come to dominate the world.
Using shock therapy as a metaphor, the film investigates Klein's central idea of disaster capitalism. When countries are jolted by catastrophic events such as war or natural disasters, they are often subjected to totally un-regulated free market remedies that benefit corporations at public expense. The film traces the doctrine's beginnings from the theories of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School economists, through its implementation over the past 40 years...
[evoz] Socia Justice Film Night
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- Published on Thursday, 17 April 2014 06:20
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"THE SHOCK DOCTRINE"
7:00pm Thursday, April 172994 Douglas (BCGEU Hall) Victoria
Admission by Donation
From acclaimed filmmakers Michael Winterbottom (The Trip, The Killer Inside Me) and Mat Whitecross (The Road to Guantanamo), and based on Naomi Klein's provocative bestselling book of the same name, The Shock Doctrine is a gripping and incisive deconstruction of how radical free market policies have come to dominate the world.
Using shock therapy as a metaphor, the film investigates Klein's central idea of disaster capitalism. When countries are jolted by catastrophic events such as war or natural disasters, they are often subjected to totally un-regulated free market remedies that benefit corporations at public expense. The film traces the doctrine's beginnings from the theories of Milton Friedman and the Chicago School economists, through its implementation over the past 40 years...
[evoz] CHECK TV INTERVIEW - Merli Vanegas and family beaten by fascists in Caracas!!
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 May 2014 15:40
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This is the link to the interview given on March 1 by Merli and Stella to Victoria’s CHECK TV. I just placed my camera next to the reporter and videotaped.
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Carlos Flores
British Columbia, Canada
https://www.facebook.com/toribio.l.naufrago
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