Greenpeace CanadaNotes

Hey Greenpeace Folks,
As I'm sure you can see by the 10 ft tall fences and heavy police presence around the city, the G20 summit has hit Toronto with force!
Spectacles like this give us the rare opportunity to speak out about issues that the world’s most wealthy and powerful nations ignore like: Global Justice, The Environmental & Climate Change, Hum...

February 15th marks the beginning of the public trial of the Tokyo 2- Junichi and Toru- who were detained by Japanese authorities after exposing corruption with the whaling industry. But thanks to the recent findings of a working group of the UN Human Rights Council, now the Japanese authorities are also perched on the scales of justice…and a thou...

Today Loblaw announced it will be removing some “at risk” seafood species from sale. Great news! It’s great to see Redlist removal momentum continuing after west-coast retailers, Overwaitea, followed by Safeway, went public with their initiatives last year.

Of Greenpeace Redlist species, Overwaitea removed orange roughy, shark, yellowfin tuna and s...

Yup, seems they did. As such, many of you may be asking yourself how it could be possible that the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) would actually certify this fishery as sustainable. Well, you’re not alone. David Suzuki (see recent article ) and other prominent ocean/fish/environmental gurus have wondered the same thing and it’s left me wondering-...

Could it be possible?! Two bluefin fishing nations take a stand to protect the ailing bluefin?! According to recent news, Italy has announced it will halt fishing for a year and is thought to support a CITES listing and, just today, media in France is reporting that France will support listing under Appendix I of CITES- thus support a trade ban. Th...

What do pyramid schemes, the Eiffel tower and the annual Seafood Summit have in common? All have some sort of connection to triangles…and pyramid schemes were at the heart of the Summit’s keynote speech yesterday by eminent and entertaining Canadian fisheries scientist Daniel Pauly.

Pauly used disgraced financier Madoff’s pyramid schemes to illustra...

An opinion piece by one of the Tokyo two- Junichi.

Well so far 2010 has been a bit more positive for our Tokyo Two awaiting trial in Japan. Another pre-trial hearing concluded this week, but with reason for optimism as the our defence team was awarded the inclusion of key witnesses in the trial. See below for the full press release and more info and stayed tuned as we approach the full public trial...