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A powerful award winning documentary on the Great Bear Rainforest, home of the Spirit Bear. This film shows the splendor of nature and First Nation culture in this amazing place through the stunning work of world renown photographers who explain what is at stake there due to the Enbridge Oil pipeline plan. Also, go to pacificwild.org to help protect this beautiful place.

A company whose software and services are used to remotely administer and monitor large sections of the energy industry began warning customers last week that it is investigating a sophisticated hacker attack spanning its operations in the United States, Canada and Spain. Experts say digital fingerprints left behind by attackers point to a Chinese hacking group tied to repeated cyber-espionage campaigns against key Western interests. In letters sent to customers last week, Telvent Canada Ltd. said that on Sept. 10, 2012 it learned of a breach of its internal firewall and security systems. Telvent said the attacker(s) installed malicious software and stole project files related to one of its core offerings — OASyS SCADA — a product that helps energy firms mesh older IT assets with more advanced “smart grid” technologies.

The Journal of 9/11 Studies is sharing a set of 11th anniversary letters from several prominent members of the community, including William Pepper, Michel Chossudovsky, Lee McKenna, Ferdinando Imposimato, Lorie Van Auken, Gregg Fishman, Father Frank Morales, David Johnson and Paul Craig Roberts "We hope you find the content useful and informative in the fight for truth, justice and peace. If you do, we ask that you distribute the letters widely." Kevin Ryan and Graeme MacQueen, co-editors Journal of 9/11 Studies http://www.journalof911studies.com/

Hundreds of British Columbians are away from their homes, others are without clean drinking water and at least one person is dead as a weekend of heavy rain flooded homes and washed away roads in several areas of the province.

Capt. Sylvain Theoret says bottles, rocks and even garbage cans were thrown at his officers by some in the mob of 500 people. Riot squads from the Quebec provincial police and nearby Laval were called in to help and it took about three hours to get the situation under control.

Police are asking for the public’s help to identify suspects after more than a million dollar’s worth of copper was stolen from a Toronto factory last weekend.

People downstream of an oil pipeline breach in west central Alberta are worried but hopeful the spill won't seriously damage the Red Deer River they depend on for water and recreation.