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Tour Canada’s Boreal Forest
Spanning 1.2 billion acres, Canada’s boreal forest is the largest intact forest ecosystem on the planet. This unique environment is home to hundreds of species of migratory fish and birds, and contains carbon-rich soil and permafrost critical to the fight against global warming.
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David Suzuki Visits Manitoba – May 27, 2011 – Winnipeg, Manitoba
Environmental activist David Suzuki talks about the proposed UNESCO World Heritage Site in the boreal forests east of Lake Winnipeg.… Continue Reading
CKUW interview For BiPole 3
Janice Nelson at CKUW talks to Susanne McCrea, Executive Director of the Boreal Forest Network and Lynne Fenandez, of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives about their groups positions on hydro BiPole 3; why it should be kept off the east side of Lake Winnipeg; what is the controversy all … Continue Reading
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Interview with Flora Ruck – The harvesting, preparation and use of traditional medicines
Interview with Flora Ruck – A rare look at the harvesting, preparation and use of traditional medicines. The interview was granted during the Boreal Forest Network. The late Elder Garry Raven hosted East Side Elders Gathering at Raven’s Creek, in Hollow Water First Nation, in September 2009. Flora’s interview is … Continue Reading
Ecotourism and the East Side’s UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Shaking the Tree Radio presents Ecotourism and the East Side’s UNESCO World Heritage Site?
In this show guest hosts Agnes Pawlowksa and Rob Officer discuss the possibilities for ecotourism if the East Side is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Susanne McCrea: Interview by Mary Jane of Wooden Spoons
Susanne McCrea was a guest on the April 16, 2010 edition of Wooden Spoons, produced by Mary Jane. Wooden Spoons is a program of CKUW, 95.9 FM. Click the play button to listen now.… Continue Reading
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Will There be a New UNESCO Site in Manitoba? – A Feature Interview with Conservationist Don Sullivan
“Finding ways to reconnect with the natural world is profoundly important to me in an age where the very thing we depend on to exist — nature — has seemingly been forgotten.
-Don Sullivan
For 25 years Don Sullivan has been visiting the Eastside of Lake Winnipeg. As the former … Continue Reading
East Side Road for Communities Not Hydro
By Susanne McCrea – Boreal Forest Network
Opponents to the West side routing of BiPole III continue to stir the pot, despite a firm decision by the government of Manitoba to not construct the third BiPole down the Eastside of Lake Winnipeg.
The latest criticism levelled at the government of … Continue Reading
Lake Winnipeg – East Side Montage
The Voices of the Land video educational project is under way. The video will promote greater cultural understanding of the traditional lifestyles and history of Indigenous Peoples, on the East Side of Lake Winnipeg, and will encourage a respectful attitude toward Indigenous Peoples and the caretaking role they play on … Continue Reading
Louis Young
Former Chief of Bloodvein First Nation
On the Manitoba Hydro Corridor – East Side Lake Winnipeg
A number of years ago, I worked with the Department of Indian Affairs in Thompson, Manitoba. One day, way, way up at Tadoule Lake, in one of the most northerly communities in Manitoba, I … Continue Reading
