Old Growth Protest

• B.C. environmental protester banned from possessing glue after pair of Nanaimo protests

  A B.C. environmental protester has avoided jail but remains in a sticky legal situation for a pair of demonstrations involving super glue earlier this year.

  Crime

  Sep 20, 2022
  
• Old-growth logging opponents to end B.C. highway blockades

  “Major traffic disruptions will end today,” environmental group Save Old Growth said, adding it would switch tactics to public outreach and events.

  Canada

  Jun 29, 2022
  
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• Old-growth logging protesters dump manure at B.C. premier’s constituency office

  The group is demanding B.C.'s NDP government bring in legislation to immediately end all old-growth logging in the province.

  Environment

  May 25, 2022
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• B.C. man in hospital on 24th day of hunger strike against old-growth logging

  A group protesting old-growth logging in British Columbia says one of its members has been hospitalized on the 24th day of a hunger strike.

  Environment

  Apr 24, 2022
• Second judge to take B.C. old-growth logging protesters’ case

  A judge hearing a request to stay proceedings against people arrested at old-growth protests on Vancouver Island says he wants another judge to consider it with "fresh eyes."

  Environment

  Feb 23, 2022
• B.C. old-growth logging protests having political impact, says UBC expert

  Since May, the RCMP have enforced a court injunction granted to the Teal-Jones Group, the forestry company that holds the harvesting license in the area.

  Environment

  Aug 29, 2021
• RCMP arrest 18 more people at B.C. old-growth logging blockades

  Police arrested 18 people Friday as they continued to enforce an injunction against blockades set up to prevent old-growth logging on southern Vancouver Island.

  Environment

  Jun 26, 2021
• Old-growth logging opponents blockade major Vancouver intersection

  Demonstrators with the group Extinction Rebellion marched from Vancouver City Hall to Broadway and Cambie streets, with the plan of disrupting traffic "indefinitely."

  Environment

  Jun 12, 2021
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• Seven more arrests at B.C. blockade opposing old-growth logging: RCMP

  Opponents of old-growth logging have re-entered a restricted area on southwest Vancouver Island and Mounties have returned to enforce a court injunction that orders their removal.

  Environment

  May 20, 2021