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Vancouver BC port strike threatens to spill over to sawmills

A strike at the Port of Vancouver could force sawmills to close and employees to be laid off as logs pile up at mills unable to get their forestry products across the Pacific Ocean.
Picket lines have been up outside the port since Feb. 26 as about 1,000 truckers refuse to work, citing low pay and undercutting by other truckers that has pushed many to work for a fraction of the posted rates. On Tuesday, the port confirmed truck traffic was only 15 per cent of normal.
Over the past two weeks, hours for longshoremen at the port have been reduced as the volume of traffic has decreased.
More at the Globe and Mail

Edward Snowden critiques Dianne Feinstein remarks

From Politico:
”We’re seeing another ‘Merkel Effect,’ where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it’s a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.” — Edward Snowden, on Diane Feinstein’s anger about NSA surveillanceNational Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden called out Sen. Dianne Feinstein after her fiery floor speech Tuesday assailing the CIA, calling her anger hypocritical.
Snowden released a statement after the California Democrat spent nearly an hour on the Senate floor decrying the CIA for accessing Senate Intelligence Committee computers and interfering with staffers’ investigations into CIA interrogation tactics.
“It’s clear the CIA was trying to play ‘keep away’ with documents relevant to an investigation by their overseers in Congress, and that’s a serious constitutional concern,” Snowden said in a statement to NBC News and confirmed to POLITICO by a Snowden associate. “But it’s equally if not more concerning that we’re seeing another ‘Merkel Effect,’ where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of...

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