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Canada's Government Votes To Uphold Kyoto |
Bill Curry
Globe and Mail
May 17, 2006
Harper says he's not bound by results of Kyoto vote
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The Haida Of The Queen Charlotte Islands Are Holding Onto Their Way Of Life |
The Vancouver Sun
May 16, 2006 Aboriginals are still living in second-class conditions
The Haida on the Queen Charlotte Islands are holding onto their way of life but many aboriginal communities across the country continue to struggle. |
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Attenborough says Stop Climate Change |
The Sunday Times
May 21, 2006
It's serious – Attenborough says stop climate change
Long a sceptic, David Attenborough tells Stuart Wavell why he is now certain the planet is warming up and issues a call to arms! |
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Isabel Nanton Vancouver Sun
July 15, 2006
QUEEN CHARLOTTES I 'A visit to Haida Gwaii is like securing a ringside seat at the dawn of time.'
GRAHAM ISLAND - During our many years of exploring British Columbia's highways and byways, we have discovered several special places, but none as unique as Rose Spit on Haida Gwaii's northern Graham Island.
Snaking five kilometres out into the converging currents of Dixon Entrance and Hecate Strait on the island's north-eastern tip, the Spit is a wind-lashed tongue of sandy beach in Naikoon (Haida for "long nose") Park and is the place where tradition says Haida life began. |
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B.C.'s Haida Nation President to Receive Award |
CTATV.CA
Associated Press
June 25, 2006
VANCOUVER — The current president of British Columbia's Haida Nation will be honoured next month with a major North America award for indigenous leadership.
Guujaaw will be presented with the 2006 Buffett Award for Indigenous Leadership by Ecotrust July 19 in Portland, Ore., for his work as a political leader, carver, traditional medicine practitioner, singer and negotiator.
Ecotrust is presenting Guujaaw with the $25,000 award for his three decades of dedication to advance the political, cultural and environmental interests of the Haida First Nation on the Haida Gwaii archipelago (Queen Charlotte Islands) off the north coast of British Columbia.
"Guujaaw is a warrior," Ecotrust president Spencer B. Beebe said in a news release Saturday. |
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