News: Vivian Krause: Damage control
Special to Financial Post May 8, 2012
Green charities rewrite grant descriptions in wake of budget
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/05/08/vivian-krause-damage-control/News: Terence Corcoran: BlackOutSpeakOut but first WhiteOut
FP Comment, Terence Corcoran May 8, 2012
The green charitable funding battle has only just begun, with every sign that the activist community is set to treat it as a life-or-death conflict. Leading the green forces against the evil Harper regime is a new coalition cleverly named BlackOutSpeakOut. Backed by the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense, Greenpeace, the Suzuki Foundation, West Coast Environmental Law and others, BlackOutSpeakOut aims to block Ottawa’s planned changes to Canada’s environmental protection legislation. A parallel objective is to stop what it refers to as the government’s “attacks on environmental charities
http://opinion.financialpost.com/2012/05/08/terence-corcoran-blackoutspeakout-but-first-whiteout/News: Asking some fair questions of Tides Canada
Gary Mason |Globe and Mail, Thursday, May. 10, 2012
For more than a year now, officials from Public Works Canada have been frequent visitors to a blog being kept by North Vancouver researcher and writer Vivian Krause.
It is her work that has ignited the federal Conservatives’ interest in the foreign funding of environmental groups in Canada. Ms. Krause was the first to raise concerns about the activities of a registered Canadian charity known as Tides Canada.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/gary_mason/asking-some-fair-questions-of-tides-canada/article2428025/?utm_medium=Feeds%3A%20RSS%2FAtom&utm_source=Politics&utm_content=2428025News: Vivian Krause: Crusading blogger
By Sam Cooper, The Province May 10, 2012
http://www.theprovince.com/news/Vivian+Krause+Crusading+blogger/6602788/story.htmlNews: Charity linked to Vancouver mayor under review
By Sam Cooper, The Province May 11, 2012
A green charity linked to Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson is under audit by Canadian authorities...Krause, who for years has posed questions about U.S. funding sources of B.C. environmental campaigns on her "Fair Questions" blog, claimed she has talked with both the RCMP and the CRA in connection to Robertson's political funding.
http://www.theprovince.com/business/Charity+linked+Vancouver+mayor+under+review/6604667/story.html