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          <description>Transparency in publicly-funded hydro project even more essential in wake of B.C. Legislature expense scandal, expert says</description>
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          <title>B.C. withholds press materials drafted for Site C cancellation scenario</title>
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          <description>Docs would shed light on whether decision to proceed with $10.7 billion megaproject was foregone conclusion</description>
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          <title>B.C.’s Last Climate &amp;#8216;Leadership&amp;#8217; Plan Was Written in Big Oil’s Boardroom (Literally)</title>
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          <title>Christy Clark Worried Mount Polley Spill Would Harm New Mine Construction, New Docs Show</title>
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               Christy Clark               </category>
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               Jessica Ross               </category>
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          <title>Revealed: Inside the B.C. Government&amp;#8217;s Site C Spin Machine</title>
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          <title>When Coal Companies Fund Public Health Research: The Case of TransAlta and the University of Alberta</title>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

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          <title>Alberta&amp;#8217;s Access to Information Problems Absent from Campaign Trail</title>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2015 20:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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          <title>Access Denied: Ministry of Environment Vetoes Interview Request on Oilsands Toxins in Animals</title>
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          <dc:creator>Carol Linnitt</dc:creator>

          
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          <title>When Journalists Get Mad</title>
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          <dc:creator>Sean Holman</dc:creator>

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          <title>The Tyranny of the Talking Point</title>
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