We live in a time of unprecedented ecological challenge. As adaptive a species as we "higher primates" are, we cannot live extant from the environment. This obvious point it seems needs endless reiterating, as we see time and again the mindless destruction of that environment by individuals and organizations.

 

Worse though than those that would risk the living world out of ignorance, or for personal enrichment is a political process, our political process, displaying a single-minded determination to wreck the environment and all that dwell within it.

 

Just such a case was revealed recently by naturalist, journalist, and author Briony Penn. I spoke last month with Briony about her article appearing in Victoria's Focus Magazine exposing Ministry of Fisheries and Oceans, (those same that brought you Canada's East coast cod collapse not so many years ago) mismanagement of West coast herring quotas.

And; close on the heels of the totalitarian SOPA law being drawn up in the United States, Canada too is introducing legislation that will allow the Canadian government, (and its unnamed friends) to creep into your computer to find out just about everything it thinks it needs to know about you. Naturally, it's all for the safety of the little children.

 

Called 'Lawful Access,' the bills soon to be before the House will, in the words of Open Media, "make online spying the norm in Canada and seriously threaten the privacy and security of all Canadians."

Steve Anderson is founder and Executive Director of OpenMedia.ca, an open internet advocacy collective behind the Stop Online Spying campaign. Steve is a social media consultant, whose writing can be found at Common Ground, the Toronto Star, and Epoch Times, and online at the Tyee.ca and at his OpenMedia blog. He also writes the monthly syndicated column, Media Links, and is a contributing author of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' book, 'The Internet Tree.'  

Steve Anderson the growing resistance to codified government surveillance in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher and CFUV broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us up to speed with what's going on on Victoria's streets and beyond. But first, reprising Briony Penn on the state of B.C.'s coastal herring.

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