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Red Tape is People

Red Tape. What it is. Why the phrase is so popular with politicians and lobbyists. And why you should cringe every time you hear the words “red tape”. Our guests today are Jamie Kneen of Mining Watch Canada and Vern Edwards of the Ontario Federation of Labour. We also pay tribute to a lost friend, [...]

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In January, Waterkeeper Alliance with Lake Ontario Waterkeeper headed to Alberta to raise money for this global grassroots movement. Our President Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke, and boy did the media react! Our special guest on this episode of Living at the Barricades is Robert F. Kennedy Jr, talking about mercury contamination and fish in [...]

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How do you know if a wind turbine is killing birds and bats? Answer: Somebody has to count the bodies. We do just that, today, on our to visit Wolfe Island. Mark and Krystyn chat with Stacey Haskins and Bill Evans. Music in this Show You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) by Dead or Alive Spin [...]

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In Part II of this two-part episode, Mark and Krystyn talk to legendary Cree guide and Riverkeeper Wililam Tozer. Author Joseph Boyden gives a reading from the Moose River, live from the Charles Sauriol dinner in November 2009. Music in this Show Lost River by Mickey Hart Lost Cause by Beck Lost in a Crowd by Rusted Root Lost Together [...]

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In Part I of this two-part episode, Mark and Krystyn go back to June 2009 when Northern Ontario’s first Riverkeeper joined the Waterkeeper movement. They talk about the Moose River with counsel Joanna Bull and about what it means to be a “Waterkeeper”. Author Joseph Boyden gives a reading from the Moose River, live from [...]

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The Big Pipe is a half-a-billion dollar sewage pipeline. Stretching across the north-eastern Greater Toronto Area, the Big Pipe will funnel more than 1 billion litres of sewage from York Region to Durham Region every single day. That’s 95% one region’s sewage dumped on the doorstep of another on a daily basis. Many residents [...]

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Giant, leaping, face-slapping food-guzzling fifty-pound fish have escaped and are headed this way! Alien invaders, the asian carp, have likely breached the last barrier before the Great Lakes and are set to slip into our sweetwater seas near Chicago. How it happened. Why it’s scary. And what’s to be done. Georgian Baykeeper Mary Muter joins [...]

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This very special episode of Living at the Barricades features three of the six performers in Heart of a Lake: Gord Downie, Tanis Rideout, and your Waterkeeper, Mark Mattson. You will hear author Joseph Boyden’s readings on the Moose River during an upcoming episode of Living at the Barricades. Two of our performers, Andrea Nann [...]

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Back in 2006, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper started researching the environmental effects of burning tires at cement kilns. Not long after, Bath area residents, including our good friend and Trustee for Lake Ontario, Gord Downie, raised alarm bells about one tire burning proposal in particular. The Lafarge Alternative Fuels project, as it was known, was a [...]

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The Government of Canada is poised to build a massive low-level radioactive waste site in Port Hope, Ontario. The environmental assessment is done. The licence has been issued. The Port Hope radioactive waste site — a hesitating experiment that will change the future of our waterfront. We talk about such experiments on this episode, including [...]

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The United States Environmental Protection Agency is pushing a set of new rules for ships operating in or near the United States. These rules, under the Clean Air Act, would affect all ships on the Great Lakes. The EPA is telling ship owners to start burning cleaner fuel in an effort to reduce sulphur and [...]

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From October 1-4, the Royal Theatre on College Street in Toronto becomes home to the MUCK Film Festival and Forum. “Movies of Uncommon Knowledge” examine creative solutions to social issues such as war and global warming. On today’s show, Krystyn speaks with Dr. Stuart Samuels, the MUCK Festival’s creative director. We also team up with [...]

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Placard-waving, slogan-chanting, headline grabbing demonstrators are the environmental movement’s trademark. Over the last thirty years, we’ve seen mass demonstrations in the U.S., China, Europe, and South America. Lately, we are seeing more actions taking place in Canada - including Alberta’s Tar Sands. Today on Living at the Barricades, we’ll tell you why. This episode features [...]

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One of the busiest organizations on Lake Ontario right now is a volunteer group that goes by the name of PERL - Protecting Escarpment Rural Land. PERL is the leading voice for the protection of the Niagara Escarpment from the Nelson quarry expansion near Burlington, Ontario. In the last month, PERL has thrown a fundraising [...]

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Few development proposals are more controversial in Ontario right now than wind projects. When Canadian Hydro Developers, SkyPower, Toronto Hydro, Trillium and their ilk decide to build turbines, controversy always follows. Wind development is an important issue. The Ontario government is relying heavily on the what it calls the “Green Economy” to rebuild the province’s economy [...]

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On today’s show: success at Dump Site 41. The plan to bury waste on the shores of Georgian Bay is scuttled. The next issue on the horizon is the long-term struggle for a safe, fair plan for dealing with garbage in Ontario. We get an update on Site 41 from Mark Calzavara of Council of [...]

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In late August, Lake Ontario Waterkeeper was one of 100 intervenors that took part in a licencing hearing for a massive low-level radioactive waste project in Port Hope, Ontario. Waterkeeper, other intervenors, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, and journalists all seemed to struggle with the same question: how do you criticize the specific details of [...]

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As environmental advocates, we encourage people to get to know Lake Ontario. But some parts of the lake are so polluted that touching the water or eating the fish that lived there can be a health risk. We do not want to overemphasize the risk, because it scares people away. And where communities are afraid [...]

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The sewage systems for communities on the Great Lakes are actually designed to dump 15 billion litres of sewage into local waterways every year. To get a better sense of what sewage pollution is being reported, Living at the Barricades called Elaine McDonald. Elaine is the senior scientist at Ecojustice, formerly known as Sierra [...]

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Dump Site 41, a proposed dump on the pristine Alliston Aquifer, has become one of the most contentious environmental issues in Ontario today. This week, Living at the Barricades speaks with Mark Calzavara of The Council of Canadians, and Ray Millar, a resident of Tiny Township in anticipation of a major rally set for [...]

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