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          <title>Groups call on B.C. to fund Indigenous monitoring of mines in traditional territories</title>
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          <description>As the province considers reforms to mining laws, 30 organizations are advocating for increased transparency and more independent enforcement — including an increased role for Indigenous communities to oversee projects approved on their lands</description>
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          <title>‘It’s An Environmental Law-Free Zone’: B.C. Auditor General Asked to Investigate Unregulated Placer Mining</title>
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          <title>B.C. Rejects Request for Inquiry into Mining Practices</title>
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          <title>Public Inquiry Formally Requested to Investigate B.C.’s Shoddy Mining Rules</title>
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          <title>Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Review ‘Vexed from Outset’</title>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
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               BC Nature               </category>
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          <title>UVic Report Calling for Updates to Charities Law Creates Stir</title>
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          <dc:creator>Emma Gilchrist</dc:creator>

          
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               Bill Schaper               </category>
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               Broadbent Institute               </category>
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               Canada Revenue Agency               </category>
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               Tax Audits of Environmental Groups: The Pressing Need for Law Reform               </category>
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               Tim Gray               </category>
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               University of Victoria               </category>
               

          
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          <title>Canada’s Charitable Law Urgently Needs Reforming: New UVic Report</title>
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          <title>National Energy Board Rules Kinder Morgan Can Keep Pipeline Emergency Plans Secret, Weakens Faith in Process</title>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
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               andrew weaver               </category>
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               Chris Tollefson               </category>
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               Eoin Madden               </category>
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          <title>Canada Singled Out in International Report on Endangered Science</title>
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          <title>Decision on Kinder Morgan&amp;#8217;s Trans Mountain Oil Pipeline Delayed Until After Next Federal Election</title>
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               Burnaby Mountain               </category>
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          <title>New BC Nature Lawsuit Challenges Cabinet’s Approval of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline</title>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
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