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From British Columbia, more evidence of the danger of hitching an economy to resource extraction and commodity exports. As the Vancouver Sunexplains today, the BC forest industry is bearing the brunt of a "perfect storm." A rising Canadian dollar, higher energy prices, and the ongoing softwood lumber dispute with the United States are combining to […]http://www.sightline.org/wp-content/images/legacy/blog_forest.jpg