VANCOUVER—From condemning pipelines, to denouncing legacy media, to shutting down Vancouver’s busiest highway over old growth logging, to protesting a TED Talks conference featuring Bill Gates, hundreds of activists rallied for a variety of causes in Vancouver this past weekend. On April 8, members of Save Old Growth interrupted rush hour traffic on Vancouver’s North Shore when dozens of protesters blocked the Trans-Canada Highway in both directions for more than an hour. The group wants the provincial government to end logging in all of B.C.’s old growth forests and has escalated its civil disobedience to get the government’s attention. “Doing marches, petitions, and rallies, this traditional activism that’s dominated in politics just hasn’t worked,” Save Old Growth co-founder Zain Haq said in an interview with The Epoch Times. “What we’re doing now is causing disruption and we’re breaking the law, and we are getting arrested on purpose in large numbers …