Victories Report - Ecojustice€¦ · Victories Report Your ecojustice, your victories. Dear friend, There are no victories without you! No lawyers and scientists holding governments

2014 Victories Report

Your ecojustice, your victories

Dear friend,

There are no victories without you!

No lawyers and scientists holding governments and corporations to account. No court orders forcing recovery plans for endangered species. No special reviews to determine if government should ban or restrict toxic pesticides.

Without you, there is no environmental charity offering free legal and scientific expertise to Canadians all across this country in service to a simple mission: to protect the air, water and land that sustains us and future generations.

That’s why we’re thankful for your support. And that’s why our clients tell us that it would be impossible to achieve their goals without Ecojustice and people like you.

Your commitment and passion to defending every Canadians’ right to a healthy environment moved many of the victories we’re about to share from an urgent phone call to a legal precedent.

On the following pages, you’ll find groundbreaking victories that belong to our staff, our clients and you.

our thanks to you

But you should also know that there’s more work ahead.

At all levels, Canadians are shut out of environmental decision-making that affects the well-being of our families and our future.

You believe in our vision of an environment that is healthy, thriving and protected by effective, well-enforced laws.

So savour these victories today. And know that your ongoing support will make tomorrow’s victories, and that vision, a reality.

With sincere thanks and appreciation,

Devon Page,

executive director

Cathy Wilkinson,

president and chair

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Vancouver: Cathy Acuña, Jocelyn

Anderson, Morgan Blakley, Shauna Blair,

Katherine Bound, Megan Bradfield, Karen

Campbell, Mythu Chung, Randy Christensen,

Mark Dunphy, Sutton Eaves, Marion Greene,

Kelly Hazlett, Valerie Hunter, John Keller,

Leon Liberman, Janice Loomer Margolis,

Carol McDonald, Sean Nixon, Devon Page,

Jineane Payne, Elyse Pearson, Susan Pinkus,

Tina Reale, Jazmin Rodrigues, Kimberly

Shearon, Kim Sullivan, Dyna Tuytel, Maggie

Valenzuela, Margot Venton, Vicki Vishniakoff.

Toronto: Justin Duncan, Sandra

Gamboias, Pierre Hamilton, Charles Hatt,

Albert Koehl, Anastasia Lintner, Elaine

MacDonald, Andrew Male, Carleen McBean,

Jessica Molnar, Jennifer O’Connor,

Liat Podolsky, John Swaigen, Lara Tessaro,

Ian Arnold, Kaitlyn Mitchell, Kirstin Mikadze.

Alberta: Barry Robinson, Cathy

Arnault, Fraser Thomson, Melissa Gorrie.

Ottawa: Will Amos, Melanie Cousineau,

Tanya Nayler, Celine Perret, Pierre Sadik,

Carissa Wong.

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Thanks to the support of donors like you, we’re able to celebrate another banner year in our efforts to protect Canada’s endangered wildlife and ecosystems.

You empowered us to bring forward a series of legal challenges that ultimately forced the federal government to take the unprecedented step of introducing an emergency protection order for Canada’s endangered Greater Sage-Grouse.

And not a moment too soon.

The plight of the Sage-Grouse remains one of the most compelling cases for federal intervention under the Species at Risk Act that we’ve have ever seen. Scientists say that without immediate, meaningful protection these iconic prairie birds will disappear from Canada within the next decade. Thanks to you, they may have a little more room to breathe — and dance!

You helped us score another huge legal victory when the Federal Court chastised the Canadian

wildlife & wilderness

government for its chronic, unlawful delays in producing recovery strategies for our country’s endangered wildlife.

The judgment marks the successful end to one of the biggest endangered species lawsuits in Ecojustice history, in which we sought a court order declaring that federal foot-dragging on species protection is, in fact, unlawful.

At issue in this case were four species — the Pacific Humpback Whale, Nechako White Sturgeon, Marbled Murrelet and Southern Mountain Caribou — all of which live along the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and tanker route. When we filed this case in fall 2012, the recovery strategies for these species were all at least three years overdue.

In the final months and days leading up to our hearing date, the federal government rushed to release a final recovery strategy for the Humpback Whales, and proposed recovery strategies for the Murrelet, Sturgeon and Caribou. That flurry of activity, government lawyers admitted during the hearing, was prompted by our lawsuit — proof that Ecojustice’s

Protecting Canada’s rich natural legacy

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Anna Cathrall was an adventurous spirit. After graduating with an engineering

degree, she explored the landscapes of Australia, Madagascar, Malaysia and Ethiopia.

She immigrated to Canada with only 40 British pounds in her pocket. Within weeks, she became one of the country’s few female computer engineers when she landed a job at IBM.

When Anna retired to the Comox Valley, she put her energy into repairing Mother Earth and rallying against the proposed Raven Coal Mine. She communed with streamkeeper and naturalist groups, found delight in counting birds and grew an amazing garden.

Anna’s heroines and heroes were Quakers, Buddhist teachers and environmentalists like David Suzuki. Here at Ecojustice, Anna’s life is an inspiration. And we are thankful for her more than 23 years of support as a monthly donor. Anna, who passed away in November 2013, also left Ecojustice a generous bequest.

All who loved her will remember her passion for the environment and her legacy gift will ensure that

future generations enjoy a healthy environment.

strategic litigation model is making a big impact.

Backed by the Court’s stern ruling, our work is forcing the federal government to — at long last — improve its efforts to protect Canada’s endangered wildlife.

Many victories take years to realize. We’re especially grateful for the long-term support and commitment of our monthly donors, whose support makes the longest, toughest courtroom wins possible.

— Sean Nixon, staff lawyer

Looking ahead: Saving Canada’s species

Your unwavering support will ensure that we are able to build on our recent successes. In the coming months, we’ll be monitoring Greater Sage-Grouse and Killer Whale recovery efforts to ensure that the gains made during our multi-year battle to secure their legal protection aren’t lost.

We’ll return to Federal Court this summer to seek a court order to stop the transfer of farmed Atlantic Salmon carrying harmful diseases and pathogens into waters shared with wild fish, including Pacific Salmon. As our work helped lead Justice Cohen to conclude in his 2012 Cohen Commission report, we still need safeguards that limit decisions that put wild salmon at risk.

— Margot Venton, staff lawyer

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Your contribution made history.

For the first time in Canada, the federal government will review up to 383 pesticide products and decide whether to ban or restrict their use.

Reducing our exposure to toxic chemicals will make Canada a healthier country and this victory is a nudge in the right direction.

But without you, and our lawsuit, there would be no nudge. Initially, the federal government refused our request to review these chemicals, already banned in Europe, many of which are known to pollute water or are harmful to your health.

So we turned to the courts, representing the David Suzuki Foundation and Equiterre in a lawsuit filed in August 2013. By December 31, the government quietly posted a decision to start most of the pesticide reviews we’d requested.

But the lawsuit isn’t over. It’s on hold while we see if Canada’s government will commit to its legal

people & health

duties to conduct these reviews. If they don’t, we’ll do what we promised: use the law to protect your health and restore Canada’s environment.

In 2013, you also helped us protect a community’s groundwater supply in Wellington County, Ontario.

You put us to work for Wellington Water Watchers and the Council of Canadians over an issue about the Ontario government’s duty to protect groundwater. Together, we appeared before the Environmental Review Tribunal to challenge a deal between Nestlé and the province.

The deal would have allowed Nestlé to avoid mandatory drought restrictions on the amount of groundwater it pumps and bottles from a local aquifer. It was a deal that put a corporation’s interests above the public interest.

Our clients said this deal only benefitted Nestlé, not the families and community that rely on the aquifer. They asked for our help, confident that a legal approach could work.

Keeping Canadians safe and healthy

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You put our lawyers and scientists to work for Canadians.

Your donations place legal expertise in the hands of individuals and groups, our clients, devoted to environmental protection. Here is Sidney Ribaux, co-founder and executive director of Equiterre, on the value of your contribution.

“Although Equiterre is Quebec’s leading environmental group, we lack the financial resources to engage in litigation as a means to move our issues forward. The critical role of Ecojustice, and people like you, has been essential in forcing the federal government to review hundreds of pesticides dangerous to human health. Without Ecojustice’s legal and scientific expertise, Equiterre alone would not have been able to win this critical victory. Ecojustice staff are professional, dedicated and understand the objectives that we pursue as a public interest group; this is a critical advantage that no other law firm could provide.”

They made the right choice. The Environmental Review Tribunal reviewed our submissions, decided the deal was inconsistent with the Ontario Water Resources Act and announced that it would hold a full hearing.

Shortly after that, Nestlé withdrew their appeal.

Another victory made possible by you.

— Lara Tessaro and Will Amos, staff lawyers

Looking ahead: Challenging GMO approvals

In December, you helped launch a legal challenge against the federal government, and biotechnology company AquaBounty Canada Inc., over a decision to permit the manufacture of genetically modified salmon in Canada.

If approved for consumption in the U.S. or Canada, this would be the world’s first genetically modified food animal. Given the serious environmental risks posed to wild salmon and their habitat, any decision-making must be done in accordance with the law, based on the best scientific knowledge, and open to public debate.

Right now, it isn’t clear that’s happened. And your support is helping us and our clients, Ecology Action Centre and Living Oceans Society, hold the federal government to account.

— Kaitlyn Mitchell and Tanya Nayler, staff lawyers

Equiterre

Sidney Ribaux Executive Director and Co-founder

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When it comes to risky pipeline projects that threaten our environment, we’re standing strong — and we’re not going anywhere any time soon.

While we were disappointed with the Joint Review Panel’s recommendation to approve Enbridge’s proposed Northern Gateway pipeline on the west coast and the National Energy Board’s approval of a plan to reverse the flow and capacity of Enbridge’s Line 9 pipeline in Ontario and Quebec, we aren’t throwing in the towel.

Both projects have extensive conditions attached to them. In the case of Northern Gateway, the Joint Review Panel’s report sets out 209 conditions Enbridge must satisfy — including developing a marine mammal protection plan and continuing research on heavy oil clean-up — if the pipeline is to go ahead.

The listed conditions echo the environmental concerns we raised on behalf of our clients during

climate change & energy

the review hearings, underscoring the important role you helped us play in ensuring that the Panel considered the threats the Northern Gateway pipeline poses to our water, air and land.

That said, it’s our position that the Panel’s final report is both incomplete and flawed. And as such it cannot stand as the final word on whether Northern Gateway is in the national interest.

The report is missing critical information, including a risk assessment of geohazards along the pipeline route and a complete study on what happens to diluted bitumen when spilled in the marine environment. We believe it also fails to meet legal requirements under the Species at Risk Act, namely considering the recently finalized Pacific Humpback Whale recovery strategy. Without this information, the Panel does not have enough evidence to support its conclusion that the pipeline will not have significant adverse environmental impacts and should be approved.

From the moment the Northern Gateway pipeline was first proposed, concerned Canadians have agreed

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Judy and Jim Deutsch say Ecojustice’s work is highly effective. “There are innumerable

environmental organizations, but we especially commend Ecojustice for putting people back into the environment.”

Psychoanalysts Judy and Jim are avid outdoor people who have supported Ecojustice since 1998. Through their clinical work with children, they have seen that humans are capable of telling themselves that they can’t have everything and accepting limits. “But we also know that there are very powerful and dangerous interest groups that can bring an end to all life.” This affects how they see efforts to tackle climate change.

Judy and Jim feel that human survival is threatened by corporate and government inaction on climate change. And they’re concerned about the erosion of democratic processes in Canada. However, they believe we can fight back using public education, citizen action and court challenges. That’s why they support Ecojustice with ongoing monthly gifts and as members of the Champions Community.

that the pipeline’s fate must be based on the best available science. It’s a simple idea, but one that our decision-makers seem to have lost sight of.

That’s where you come in. With your support, we’ve filed a lawsuit in hopes of forcing the Panel to go back to the drawing board and fix its report.

Thanks to your generous support, we’re not backing down. After weathering a government-backed smear campaign on environmental charities and slogging through 18 gruelling months of review hearings, we’re standing tall. And we think that’s a victory worth celebrating.

— Barry Robinson, staff lawyer

Looking ahead: Defending Canada’s Arctic

With your help, we’re challenging plans to drill for offshore oil in Canada’s Western Arctic. We’re representing WWF-Canada at regulatory hearings before the National Energy Board and the Inuvialuit Environmental Impact Review board.

The proposed project is located where extreme Arctic conditions and sensitive ecosystems present significant challenges. An offshore spill would pose catastrophic environmental risks to local wildlife and wilderness, which is why we’re working to ensure that potential environmental risks are adequately reviewed.

— Will Amos, staff lawyer

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Financials S T AT E M E N T O F

O P E R AT I O N S

2013 2012ReVeNUeFoundation grants 1,399,093 1,304,815

Cost awards and recoveries 35,783 126,180

Recoveries – University of Ottawa law clinic 280,000 200,000

Donations

– Public appeals 1,784,735 1,781,945

– Other donations and bequests 1,414,839 1,283,340

Investment income 73,495 67,136

4,987,945 4,763,416

eXPeNDITUReSAmortization 45,327 51,047

Facilities and office 600,513 614,165

Fundraising 359,677 354,934

Human resources 93,502 105,498

Litigation and program support 146,705 156,154

Public education 183,780 206,281

Salaries and compensation 3,376,373 3,258,658

Science and research 7,033 18,273

Travel 89,225 94,122

4,902,135 4,859,132

eXCeSS (DeFICIeNCY) OFReVeNUeS OVeR eXPeNDITUReS 85,810 (95,716)

Net assets at beginning of year 2,626,528 2,722,244

Net assets at end of year 2,712,338 2,626,528

Ecojustice maintains internally restricted funds to safeguard the Society’s ability to continue as a going concern and to ensure the completion of current cases. The full audited financial statements are available on our website at ecojustice.ca.

FiscalyearendedOctober31,2013

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Board of Directors: Tricia Barry, Martha Butterfield,

Mike Cormack, Deborah Curran,

Valerie Langer, Murray McCaig,

Judge William A. Newsom,

Ronald Pearson, Doug Rae,

Madeleine Redfern, Will Roush,

Stuart Rush, Q.C., Leonard Schein,

Trip Van Noppen, Cathy Wilkinson.

Honorary Directors: Margaret Atwood, Robert Bateman,

Honourable Claire L’Heureux-Dubé,

Gregory J. McDade Q.C., Buck Parker,

John Rich, Clayton Ruby, CM, Dr. David

Suzuki, Terri-Lynn Williams-Davidson,

Doug Chapman (in memoriam).

AllocationOF EXPENDITURES

SourcesOF SUPPORT

MANAGEMENT 13%

FUNDRAISING 18%

PROGRAM 69%

INDIVIDUALS 60%

BEQUESTS 4%

FOUNDATIONS 34%

COST AWARDS 1%OTHER 1%

AllocationOF EXPENDITURES

SourcesOF SUPPORT

MANAGEMENT 13%

FUNDRAISING 18%

PROGRAM 69%

INDIVIDUALS 60%

BEQUESTS 4%

FOUNDATIONS 34%

COST AWARDS 1%OTHER 1%

Question? Comments? Please contact editor Pierre Hamilton at [email protected].

Report design by Christa Ledding www.christaledding.com

Ecojustice is committed to the use of environmentally responsible papers. By choosing 100 per cent post-consumer recycled fiber instead of virgin paper for this printed material the following savings to our natural resources will be realized this year.

Trees saved: 41Wood reduced: 10,698 kgsWater reduced: 131,312 litres Landfill reduced: 1,668 kgs Net Greenhouse emissions: 3,236 kgs Energy reduced: 46,948,000 Btu

SOURCE: WWW.UNISOURCE.CA

Notes: Allocation of Expenditures is based on data submitted to Revenue Canada Agency on our T3010 Registered Charity Information Return; figures do not total 100 due to rounding. Fundraising costs remain below the charitable sector standard of 23 per cent of total operating expenses. Our complete audited financial statements are available online at ecojustice.ca. Charitable Business Number: BN 13474 8474 RR0001.

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our clients

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OuR PARTneRS AnD ClienTS

Ada Lockridge

Alexandra Morton

Arctic Athabasca Council

Alberta Wilderness Association

Atlantic Salmon Federation

Attention Frag’Iles

Anthony and Lorraine Bruder

Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment

Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society

Chemtura Public Advisory Committee

CPAWS-Wildlands League

Canadian Environmental Law Association

Communities and Coal

Coastal Alliance for Aquaculture Reform

Coalition for a Liveable Sudbury

Council of Canadians

David Suzuki Foundation

Dogwood Initiative

Ducks Unlimited Canada

Earthroots

Ecology Action Centre

Environmental Defence Canada

Environment North

Équiterre

Fatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP)

Forestethics Advocacy

Forestethics Solutions

Ecojustice acts strategically together with our partners and clients. We offer our services free of charge, taking on cases that set legal precedents and strengthen laws in defence of clean water, natural spaces, communities, and our climate. As a leader in the courts and the environmental movement, we aim to defend the right of Canadians to a healthy environment — now and for decades to come.

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Fraser Headwaters Alliance

Freeport Community Development Association

Friends of the Earth

Georgia Strait Alliance

Grand RiverKeepers, Labrador Inc.

Grasslands Naturalists

Greenpeace Canada

Green Prosperity

Jasper Environmental Association

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper

Lilydale Action Committee

Living Oceans Society

MiningWatch Canada

Napanee Green Lights

Nature Saskatchewan

Northwatch

Ontario Nature

Ontario Headwaters Institute

Organizing for Change

Pembina Institute

Quebec Meilleure Mine

Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Residents of Braeside

Rivers Without Borders

Ron Plain

Sierra Club BC

Sierra Club Canada

Sierra Club Ontario

SNAP Quebec

St. Mary’s Bay Coastal Alliance

Taku River Tlingit First Nation

Varda Burstyn

Village of Freeport

Village of Tiverton

Village of Westport

Voters Taking Action on Climate Change

Watershed Watch Salmon Society

Wellington Water Watchers

Western Canada Wilderness Committee

Wildsight

Wildlands League

Wildlife Conservation Society

World Wildlife Fund Canada

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our thanks

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FOunDATiOnS & ADViSeD FunDS

$50,000 PLUS

Anonymous (2)

Catherine Donnelly Foundation

The Law Foundation of B.C.

The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

$10,000 to $49,999

444S Foundation

The Brainerd Foundation

The Bulrush Foundation

Canadian Bar Law for the Future Fund

Eden Conservation Trust

Glasswaters Foundation

Global Greengrants Fund

The Langar Foundation

The Law Foundation of Ontario

The McLean Foundation

Mountain Equipment Co-op

Patagonia

The Schad Foundation

Vancouver Foundation

$1,000 to $9,999

Anonymous (2)

The Sisters of St. Joseph Diocese of London, Ontario Foundation

GiFTS FROM eSTATeS

Anonymous (2)

Patricia Agius

Murray B. Anderson

Edward F. Bridgman

Ethel Coffin

Marjorie J. Evans

Marie J. Gemma

Emily Lee Lightfoot

Douglas H. MacAulay

Ruby and Richard Mitchell

Margaret Prang

Jean Vogan

Ecojustice extends our deepest gratitude to all our 2013 supporters. Your good faith and support of our work has made every challenge we face and victory we celebrate for the environment possible. Your generosity and dedication are commendable. Thank you one and all for helping protect our environment. The following acknowledges donors who made a gift of $1,000 or more in 2013.

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leGACY COMMuniTY

The following have made a plan to benefit Ecojustice through a legacy bequest in their will, a gift of life insurance or a future gift of RRSP or RRIF.

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William Amos

Jocelyn Anderson

Suzanne McBennett André and Shane André

Nadia B-Mainville

Diana M. Bainbridge

Lorne Almon Boyd

Jane and Craig Campbell

Alexander Daughtry

Ann Dutton

Susan Roberta Eaton

George H.J. Ellen

Virginia Evans

Helen and Gerry Gilavish

Leland Gosselin

Douglas Green

Jo-Anne Harris

Will Hendrie

Judith Hibberd

William D. Hughey

Herman and Elly de Jongh Fund – Edmonton Community Foundation

Elizabeth Ketchum

Timothy Leadem

Frances Litman

Carol J. Lodge

Janice Loomer Margolis

Murray MacAdam

Rod Manson

John and Shirley Martin

Harvey McKinnon

Judith McPhie

Joan Norris

Daryl and Yvonne Noullette

Judith and Lou Probst

Carla Reed

Nancy Robinson

Patricia Roozendaal

David Rothkop

Elizabeth Shannon and R. Clark Munro

Kimberly Shearon

Peter Stuart

Joanne Thomas

A. Valentin

Lorna Visser

Cliff Wallis

Marilyn Flora Wiley

Byron Wilson and Karla Reimer

Catherine Zeilner

Walter and Brenda Zimmerman

CHAMPiOnS $10,000 PLUS

Anonymous (9)

Tammy and Frank Arnold

Ruth Barker

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CHAMPiOnS $10,000 PLUS (COnTinueD)

George and Martha Butterfield Family Foundation

The Cohen Family in Memory of Joseph H. Cohen

Mike Cormack and Jenny Drake

Josine Eikelenboom

Glen Estill

Eleanor Evans

Gencon Foundation

Catherine and William Graham

Nancy Ironside

Richard Ivey

Erik Lockeberg

Rudolph and Patricia North

Leonard Schein and Barbara Small

Dianne and David Stern

$5,000 to $9,999

Anonymous (9)

Patricia Ajello

William H. Ashwell and Fran Ashwell

Graeme G. Barber

JoAnne and Malcolm Bersohn

The Bradstreet Family Foundation

J. Nancy Braithwaite

John Budd and Susan Dundas-Budd

Brian J. Dawson

David Harold Feeny

Geoff Fridd

Jack and Pat Holway

Kaatza Foundation

Marilyn L. Kan

Karen Kirby

Krauss Family Charitable Trust

Sharon Lazare

Thomas W. Lane

Jocelyn and Neil Lovell

Roderick A. Manson

Donald H. B. Munro

Judith and Lou Probst

Elizabeth and Bill Riehm

Barbara Vengshoel

Janice L. Wright

$1,000 to $4,999

Anonymous (42)

Joseph April

Paul Armstrong

Wendy Anne Atkinson

Jonathan and Robin Backer

Aaron Barsky

Steven Barer and Susan Albersheim

Dora Basmajian

Lorraine Bell

William and Pierette Beaton

Dirk Brinkman and Joyce Murray

Maurice Brager and Margo Wood

John Brennan

Helen Brink

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CHAMPiOnS $1,000 to $4,999 (COnTinueD)

Mike Brigham

Elizabeth Campbell

Jane and Craig Campbell

Frank J. Cantoni

Norene L. Carr

Ralph V. Cartar and Mary Reid

Doreen Joyce Challenger

Cynthea Cooch

Sandra M. Cockfield

Dorothea M. Cook

Jeff and Heather Corbett

David Cosco

Gary D. Cuddington

Piotr M. Czaykowski and Anne C. Worley

Edwin E. and Virginia P. Daniel

Dawne Deeley

Michael and Honor de Pencier

Judith and James Deutsch

Dana V. Devine

Eric Diller

Meinhard Doelle

Ruth Elisabeth Donnelly

Mannie, Armelle and Rémy Druker

Susan R. Eaton

Brian and Wanda Erickson

David Estrin

Ginny Evans

Dianne Fahselt

Kenneth H. Faris and Heather D. Hilliard

James H. Firstbrook

G. William Fitzgerald

Murray Geiger-Adams

D. Moira Glerum and Chris Backhouse

Tom Gleeson

Andrew Goss

David and Judith Goodings

Dorothea Godt and Ulrich Tepass

Paul Godkin

Sharon E. Godkin

Jordan Golubov

Herman and Enid Gom

Martha Gould

Chris Graham

Jean Grieve

Jason Hart

Lee Harding and Hannah Diamond

John W. Harrison

Trevor Harterre

Dennis Hemmings

Don Hedges

John Hember

Graeme Hirst

Frederick I. Hill

Heather Hilliard

David Hodgson

Ted A. Holekamp

Beatrice Hunter

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CHAMPiOnS $1,000 to $4,999 (COnTinueD)

Catherine E. Huene

Elinor J. Hull

William D. Hughey

Paul Hunter

Richard Iredale and Lael Whitehead

Melanie Isbister

Willem Van Iterson

Bengt K. Jansson

Annelise O. Jorgensen

Richard Allan Jones

Cheryl Kabloona

Rebecca Katzin

Claire F. Kerrigan

Kingfishers Rod and Gun Club

Marilynn J. King

At the Kitchen Table Foundation

Katherine Koch

Quentin Lake and Galina Laks

Walton W. Langford

Peter Leitner

Emily Lee Lightfoot

Kenneth and Helen Lister

Mary Lisle

Ruth Lotzkar

Mishka Lysack and Ruth Morrow

Arthur MacDonald

Susan Mackey-Jamieson

Rob and Lori Macintosh

Ian B. G. MacKenzie

Marlene and Alexander Mackenzie

Dixie L. Mager and Mark McCutcheon

Janice and Simon Margolis

Anne Marriott and David Wunker

Steven L. Marsh and Zandra Bainas

Marilyn C. Marshall

Paul M. Martin

Murray and Stephanie McCaig

Mel McDonald

Matthew McInnes

Andrew McKinlay

Ben Mintz Memorial Foundation

Mistaya Paddling Club

Robert Mitchell and Eloise Spitzer

Katherine Monk

Lori A. Moore

David Morgan

Anne and Raymond Morris

Michael and Laurie Morrison

Barbara P. Munves

Wendie R. Nelson

William A. Newsom

Sayo Nickerson

Oasis Foundation

Victoria Olchowecki

Mindel Olenick

Roberta Olenick

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CHAMPiOnS $1,000 to $4,999 (COnTinueD)

Paul Olszynski

Ken Oppel

Devon Page

Victoria Page

Joan Paterson and Jeanie Paterson

Dorothy H. and Miles Paul

Kit Pearson and Katherine Farris

Ron Pearson

Lionel and Sybil Peckover

Scott Pegrum and Cynthia Mar

Arne Perrin

Diether Peschken

Brian Phillips

Brian and Diane Pinch

Nicholas J. Poppenk

Provincial Employees Community Services Fund

Doug Rae

Edna M. Ralston

Anna Reid

Carole Reiner

Paul and Lynda Richardson

Riko Inc.

Edward Riley and Margaret Riley

Brenlee Robinson

Sidney Robinson

Nathalie S. Rockhill

Michael T. Roeder and Antoinette Voûte Roeder

Martin Roland

Roy B. Ronaghan

Patricia Rosebrugh

Barbara J. Scott

Sara Seck

John Seckar

Peter C. Seixas and Susan Inman

Bruce A. Shaw

Joan and Jack Sherman

Shooting Star Foundation

Ivor and Renee Simmons

Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions Inc.

Jean D. Smith and John Valleau

Stephen Smith

Virginia G. Smith

Spirit of the West Adventures

Sisters of St. Joseph of Sault Ste. Marie

Norm Stacey

Steelhead Society of B.C.

The Mireille and Murray Steinberg Family Foundation

Edward R. Stephenson

James Stevens

J. Douglas Stewart

Rasmus Storjohann

John Swaigen

Terence R. Swean

T. D. Pearse Resource Consulting

Barry Taylor and Patricia Mazier

James Tasker

John and Barbara Taylor

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CHAMPiOnS $1,000 to $4,999 (COnTinueD)

N. A. Taylor Foundation

Carol and Harvey Thibault

Tom Thomas

Ann Thompson and Stephen Gurman

Gordon Thompson

Laura Tiberti Foundation

Keith Tolhurst and Claire Sandham

Carolyn J. Turnbull

Joanne Tuytel

United Way-Centraide Ottawa

E. Joyce and P. Edward Van Veenendaal

Jony Van Den Bos and Tom Lightburn

Jan and Valerie Versendaal

Sharolyn Vettese

Leslie A. Wade

Sharron Waite

Tim Wall

Douglas and Kathy Waterman

Sarah J. Watson

Beverly and Eric Watt

Nancy and William Whitla

Audrey and Robert Wild

Cathy Wilkinson

Paul Williams

Russell Williams

Ted Williams and Pearl Perehudoff

Wilshire Works Inc.

Heather Wilson

Peter William and Ann E. Wood

Walter and Brenda Zimmerman

DOnOR ADViSeD

FunDS AT COMMuniTY

FOunDATiOnS

The Cinders Fund - Edmonton Community Foundation

Robert I. and Margaret J. Clague Memorial Fund - Winnipeg Foundation

The Jokabeca Fund - Tides Canada Foundation

The Herman and Elly de Jongh Fund - Edmonton Community Foundation

Eileen Manning and the Ian F. Manning Memorial Fund - Vancouver Foundation

The Orcutt Family Fund - Vancouver Foundation

The John and Barbara Poole Family Fund - Edmonton Community Foundation

The Floyd and Nancy Reynolds Fund - Calgary Foundation

Richardson Family Fund - Tides Canada Foundation

The Colleen Snipper Memorial Fund - Community Foundation of Ottawa

Dr. Roy and Ellen Sutherland Fund - Victoria Foundation

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