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Recent press coverage and news from Black Out Speak Out:

• May 5th - Ottawa should halt its smear campaign against pipeline detractors
• May 6th - CBC's The National
• May 7th - Tories reject calls to carve up budget bill
• May 7th - Minister defends Tory environment plan, dials back criticism of charities
• May 7th - Environmental groups blast Tory ‘war on nature’ in new ad campaign
• May 7th - Environmental groups launch anti-budget ads
• May 10th - ANGEL & INSECT
• May 10th - Majority of oilsands ownership and profits are foreign, says B.C. analysis
• May 12th - Speak out for the environment and democracy on June 4
• May 13th - Look at the other side of the petrodollar coin
• May 14th - Tory rhetoric creates chilly climate for free speech
• May 17th - Enviro group just 1 of top 10 foreign-funded charities
• May 17th - Tory ministers crash budget hearing, leaving little time for questions
• May 23rd - 15 ways to use a 450-page federal budget bill
• May 23rd - Conservative MP David Wilks breaks ranks and says budget bill should be split up
• May 23rd - John Ivison: Criticism by Conservative MP shows depth of unease over omnibus budget bill
• May 24th - Crowd voices displeasure with federal 'Trojan Horse' budget bill
• May 28th - 'Black Out, Speak Out': Canadian internet campaign targets 'undemocratic' bill
• May 28th - Four former ministers protest ‘taking the guts out’ of Fisheries Act
• May 28th - Opposition aims to disrupt passage of omnibus Tory budget bill
• May 29th - L. Ian MacDonald: Repeat after me, folks: This is what a majority government does
• May 30th - Budget bill triggers national campaign in defence of nature and democracy
• June 1st - Local Groups Protest Harper's Budget Bill
• June 1st - National organizations representing hundreds of thousands to speak out
• June 3rd - Video: Hundred in BC protest Tory omnibus bill
• June 3rd - Calgarians protest federal budget bill outside Harper’s office
• June 3rd - Austerity obliterates ecology: Canadian budget to make environmental impact statements optional, class eco-groups as money-launderers
• June 3rd - Canadian government overhauling environmental rules to aid oil extraction
• June 3rd - Protesters rally in Victoria against federal budget bill
• June 3rd - Hundreds of environmental websites to go dark in protest
• June 3rd - Budget sparks Halifax rally
• June 4th - Keystone XL's foes plan online blackout to protest Canada bill
• June 4th - Do website protests like Black Out, Speak Out have any effect?
• June 4th - EPA could replace Canadian pollution team: Feds
• June 4th - Websites go dark in federal budget bill protest
• June 4th - Feds promote environmental policy ahead of protest
• June 4th - Online, offline protests of Bill C-38 planned for coming days
• June 4th - Websites go dark in anti-budget protest
• June 4th - Protest at Miller’s office over budget bill
• June 4th - 5 ways Canadians are protesting the budget bill
• June 4th - Orders of the Day - As websites go dark to protest omnibudget bill, a dectet of ministers goes on the defensive offensive
• June 4th - 12:20 ET CTV Interview with Gerald Butts, WWF Canada CEO
• June 4th - Websites black out to protest Harper government’s ‘attack on environment’
• June 4th - Black Out Speak Out held today
• June 4th - Websites go black in defense of nature and democracy
• June 4th - Greens shut websites to protest Canada's pro-oil stance
• June 4th - Hundreds of websites go dark to decry Tory budget bill
• June 4th - Steelworkers Join June 4th Website Campaign to Protest Harper's Attack on the Environment and Democracy
• June 4th - Former minister, environmentalists unite against budget bill. Various groups, parties black out websites to protest omnibus Bill C-38
• June 4th - 5 ways Canadians are protesting the budget bill. Monday's website blackout is only the latest campaign against C-38
• June 4th - "Website blackout in free speech fight against budget bill10 Conservative ministers hold events to tell 'the other side of the story'"
• June 4th - Video footage: media conference & Black Out Speak websites
• June 4th - Black Out Speak Out campaign protests Harper government's assault on environment
• June 4th - Cabinet ministers counter green groups' 'black out' by Mike De Souza
• June 4th - Concerns raised over environmental impacts of Bill C-38
• June 4th - Black Out Speak Out Protest
• June 4th - As websites go dark, ministers sell Tory vision of resource exploitation
• June 4th - Grand Chief Stewart Phillip calls Bill C-38 “fault line” for Canada’s future
• June 14th - Protests mount over eco-cuts