Credit to Author: The Canadian Press| Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 19:16:14 +0000
‘There’s a whole bunch of things swirling around that’s causing a whole world of hurt for people working in this industry’ — David Elstone of the B.C. Truck Loggers Association
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Credit to Author: Derrick Penner| Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 01:53:30 +0000
“I’m happy to hear that they’re willing to help and are doing something, but there’s lots to do,” Bill Nelson, president of the B.C. Truck Loggers Association.
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Credit to Author: Rob Shaw| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 00:10:16 +0000
A strike at Western Forest Products on Vancouver Island has entered its seventh month.
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Credit to Author: Derrick Penner| Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2019 00:31:04 +0000
Asa Johal retired in 2016 at age 94 as a titan in British Columbia’s coastal forest industry. His amazing life and business achievements have been chronicled in a new book
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Credit to Author: Rob Shaw| Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 01:13:04 +0000
B.C. has watered down some of its contentious forestry policies as it grapples with an economic crisis in the coastal forest sector.
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Credit to Author: David Carrigg| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 06:03:22 +0000
The deal would have cost Great Pacific Capital Corporation $982 million.
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Credit to Author: Rob Shaw| Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2019 00:05:22 +0000
B.C. premier says aid for truck loggers hurt by the forestry strike on Vancouver Island is on its way.
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Credit to Author: Gord Kurenoff| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 03:49:11 +0000
OPINION: If mediation fails and the dispute continues, then the onus will be back on the New Democrats to intervene or justify their decision to let the hurting continue
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Credit to Author: Rob Shaw| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 01:12:40 +0000
“People are hungry, people are losing things,” said Tamara Meggitt.
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Credit to Author: Rob Shaw| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 00:56:06 +0000
The union says government should stay out of the dispute
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