WCWC hopes for big turnout at protest

Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
Western Canada Wilderness Committee is hoping to beat records set by 1993 protests against logging in Clayoquot Sound by holding the largest environmental rally ever seen in B.C.
WCWC is using Facebook and e-mail as organizing tools and is hoping 3,000 protesters show up at the legislature at noon Saturday for the Rally [...]

Revisit of tree farm licence issue requested

Judith Lavoie, Times Colonist
When Arnie Campbell thinks of what the Juan de Fuca electoral area has lost due to removal of private land from tree farm licences, he gets hopping mad.
Looking at how residents of the Kootenays were treated when the provincial government allowed private lands held by bankrupt Pope and Talbot be taken out [...]