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This week:

• We run our very important spring fundraising drive. CIUT Program Manager Ken Stowar goes behind the scenes at TGM with team members Letitia Henville, Rosemary Mosco, Kevin Farmer and Jordan Poppenk.

The headlines in brief:

• As part of a rare non-partisan agreement, the Liberal party will not run a candidate against Green Party leader Elizabeth May in the next federal election, and May will endorse and not run a Green candidate against Liberal leader Stéphane Dion;
• CN Rail offices were searched by federal authorities as part of a major multi-agency investigation into a 2005 train derailment that spilled 41,000 litres of caustic soda into the Cheakamus River;
• Alberta has declared a state of emergency over an attack of pine beetles on the province’s forests;
• Environment Canada reports that only two per cent of batteries are being recycled in Canada;
• Environment Minister Patterk Netser of the government of Nunavut is protesting the U.S. plan to list polar bears as a threatened species;
• Canada is joining the international Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking;
• The White House withdrew its nominations for two key positions at the Environmental Protection Agency in the face of strong congressional opposition;
• At least four people have died in Uganda at a protest against plans to
• turn over rainforest land to a sugar company;
• There is new hope in the shrinking of the Aral Sea, which the UN has dubbed as the worst man-made environmental disaster;
• Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa has called on his Cabinet and local authorities to discuss the degradation of Galapagos ecosystems.

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