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Recovery from disaster is a long process, as this Museum of Anthropology exhibition demonstrates. Open until Sept. 19.
“This has all the hallmarks of a SLAPP suit,” said Ezra Morse, a 41-year-old software engineer and defendant in the case. “Developers only have to throw a few thousand dollars at trying to get advocates to shut up.”
SLAPP suits Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation are what the new legislation aims to prevent. Often, they’re filed by large groups with deep financial pockets and a wealth of legal resources against engaged citizens and activists who lack both.
Morse and the Qualicum Nature Preservation Society, a 148-member organization he co-founded in 2020 and serves as president of, are named in a civil claim filed in May by Richard Todsen, Linda Todsen and Todsen Design & Construction Ltd.
The BC NDP's approach to protecting old-growth forests is unsettlingly reminiscent of the failed approaches to the management of past provincial governments, write Shauna Doll and Chris Genovali of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
Our campaign message was simple: These are Canada’s last large tracts of wild coastal Douglas fir forest which haven’t been converted to urban developments or tree plantations. More than 99 per cent of the ecological zone where these ancient forests once grew has been logged and developed.
The public understood and backed the campaign, contributing more than $1.5 million in individual donations and more than $3 million in regional land acquisition funds – a fund that the public pushed to implement primarily to enable the massive private land purchases required to complete the Sea to Sea vision and protect our regions wild forests and the native species they harbour.
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