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    Katie Stuart (original Cassandra) in new project

    http://www.channelcanada.com/Article1360.html

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    CTV announced today the world television premiere of its original movie Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story on Sunday, June 4 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CTV and in High Definition on CTV HD East and CTV HD West (check local listings).

    Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story is about 15-year-old Simon Jackson (Mark Rendall, (Childstar, ReGenesis), a real-life, average teen who spends time hiking in the British Columbian wilderness. Nearly attacked by a ferocious black bear, Jackson is rescued by a rare white Kermode Bear known as the "Spirit Bear." When he discovers that these bears are endangered and their habitat is targeted for clear-cut logging, Jackson turns into a passionate and vocal teen political activist. With the help of Lloyd Blackburn (Graham Greene, Transamerica, Into The West), Jackson takes on the powerful forestry industry and the provincial government, eventually rallying young people around the world in support of the Spirit Bear. In the real life story that inspired this dramatization, the outcome of SimonJackson's David vs. Goliath fight was the protection of more than 600,000
    hectares of Canada's Princess Royal Island, one of the largest land protection battles ever won. It also led to Jackson being named one of Time magazine's 60 Heroes for the Planet in 2000 and to the creation of The Spirit Bear Youth Coalition (www.spiritbearyouth.org), the world's largest environmental network of young people with over six million members in 30 countries, spearheaded and founded by Jackson himself, who remains the Executive Director.

    Spirit Bear: The Simon Jackson Story also stars Emmy-nominated actor and real-life environmentalist Ed Begley Jr. (St. Elsewhere, Six Feet Under) as Frank Perdue, the head of the large log conglomerate and Katie Stuart (Poltergeist: The Legacy, Stargate, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) as Marcus, Simon's best friend. JUNO-nominated band The Trews make a special appearance as themselves.



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