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From Fort Mac to Downtown Calgary -- by Bicycle

Wil Andruschak

Fast Forward Weekly | September 4, 2008

Activists cycle nearly 1000 kilometers to deliver water collected downstream from the Athabasca oilsand to oil companies' head offices in Calgary.

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Tags: oil, Canada, environment, Athabasca River, Sierra Youth Coalition, toxic water

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Ex-Tory PM Condemns Canadian Arts Cutsnew

Former prime minister Joe Clark is calling the federal government's decision to cut a prominent arts program "a big mistake."

Fast Forward Weekly | Jeremy Klaszus and Adrian Morrow | 09-04-2008 | Economy

Tags: Canada, Economic Issues, arts funding, arts organizations, Joe Clark

Citizen EnCana: The Double Life of the World's Second-Largest Natural Gas Co.new

Canada's largest energy company has created jobs, brought investment and poured money into rural communities across the Canadian Prairies and the western United States. It has also left a trail of farmers and ranchers who say the company has ruined their land, made them sick and killed their livestock.

Fast Forward Weekly | Adrian Morrow | 07-10-2008 | Environment

Tags: environment, natural gas, Calgary, Ecuador, Encana, fracing, Gwyn Morgan, Quito

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Whose Future is Rising?new

Revitalizing a desolate piece of downtown Calgary, the city has gambled with taxes on the allure of high-priced condos. If it succeeds, where will the poor people go?

Fast Forward Weekly | James Wilt | 01-11-2013 | Housing & Development

Pipe Dreamsnew

With the Keystone XL and Northern Gateway pipelines focusing attention on Alberta's oil and its pipeline system, the government is undertaking what critics say is a half-hearted review.

Fast Forward Weekly | Drew Anderson | 09-14-2012 | Energy

Tags: Keystone XL

End of the Rainbownew

Calgary's queer bars are disappearing, eliminating important community hubs and safe gathering places for the LGBT community.

Fast Forward Weekly | James Wilt | 07-06-2012 | LGBT

Tags: LGBT

Out of the Shadowsnew

Ronald Smith, the Canadian on Montana's death row, has been getting a lot of media attention. The Siksika family of one of his victims, Thomas Running Rabbit Jr., talk about loss and living in a killers shadow.

Fast Forward Weekly | Zoltan Varadi | 06-28-2012 | Crime & Justice