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Christine Leclerc

Christine Leclerc is a Vancouver-based author and activist. She is the author of Counterfeit (Capilano University Editions, 2008) and an editor of The Enpipe Line: 70,000+ km of poetry written in resistance to the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal (Creekstone Press, 2012). Leclerc is a University of British Columbia Creative Writing Program graduate and Teaching In Higher Education certificate holder whose poetry, fiction and essays have appeared in magazines and journals across North America. She has been known to lead community theatre at corporate headquarters and occupy oil rigs at sea.

Kai Nagata on "Ethical Oil: the puppet rap," Ezra Levant's "loneliness" and Big Oil's media influence

Kai Nagata talks about the origins of the Ethical Oil puppet rap, journalism and which videos he'd love to make next.