British Columbia

02/10/20
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
Laichkwiltach Hereditary Chief George Quocksister Jr. speaks at a Campbell River protest last Saturday calling for the removal of Discovery Islands fish farms. Photo by Rochelle Baker

October 1st 2020

Opponents of open-net salmon farms are disputing this week's finding by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) that farms in Discovery Island waters pose little risk to wild salmon.

Environmentalist groups and conservationists claim DFO ignored crucial independent science to downplay the risks to imperiled Fraser River sockeye salmon in favour of the aquaculture industry.

02/10/20
Author: 
Will Offley & Gene McGuckin
Let’s Build a  Mass Anti-Eviction Movement - Leaflet

TEXT:

Let’s Build a

Mass Anti-Eviction Movement

First, thanks to the Vancouver Tenants Union for organizing this action. 
  Vancouver low-income housing has been a crisis for years. Now Covid has turned it into an utter shit show, which will get massively worse from now on – unless we and our allies prevent it. 

02/10/20
Author: 
Seth Klein
Wildfire smoke reached Coquitlam, BC last month. Intensifying wildfires are just one indication that we, like the rest of the planet, aren’t doing enough to stop climate change. Photo by Joshua Berson.

Oct. 2, 2020

The urgent response to the pandemic has shown us we can do it. We can’t dither another minute.

All of us who heed the warnings of climate scientists are increasingly alarmed as we stare at the harrowing gap between what the science says is necessary and what our politics seems prepared to entertain. Despite decades of calls to action, our greenhouse gas emissions are not on a path to stave off a horrific future for our children and future generations.

02/10/20
Author: 
K-J Millar
The Ecosocialist party is pulling all of its candidates from the provincial election Ashwini Manohar Executive Director for the party, said. Edward Quinlan was nominated as the Stikine riding candidate on Sept. 25. (Ecosocialist Party photo)

Oct. 1, 2020

Green Party yet to announce a candidate for North Coast riding

All candidates from the new BC Ecosocialists have been pulled from running for the party in the upcoming provincial election, Executive Director Ashwini Manohar told The Northern View on Oct. 1.

A candidate for the North Coast riding was never announced and the neighbouring riding of Stikine will lose Edward Quinlan, the party’s regional director for the Skeena and Bulkley Valley regions, as an electoral candidate for the party.

01/10/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Jurisdictions across Canada must identify and take advantage of “life-saving programs,” says Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, shown here in March. Photo by Kamara Morozuk

October 1st 2020

One-third of the 16,364 people who died from opioid overdoses over a roughly four-year period in Canada were in British Columbia, according to new national data released Wednesday.

30/09/20
Author: 
Katie Hyslop

Sept. 23, 2020

In wake of the controversy, federal Green leadership candidate Meryam Haddad is kicked out of the race and then reinstated by party.

 

Stuart Parker resigned as interim leader of the fledging BC Ecosocialists Party late Tuesday evening after recent social media comments that were denounced as transphobic.

29/09/20
Author: 
The Canadian Press
Former federal environment minister David Anderson voices his opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline during a news conference in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday, July 30, 2012. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Sept. 29, 2020

A former president of BC Hydro and a former federal fisheries minister are among 18 prominent Canadians urging the provincial government to halt work on a huge hydroelectric project in northeastern B.C.

The letter signed by former Hydro president Marc Eliesen, former fisheries minister David Anderson, Grand Chief Stewart Phillip of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs and others says construction of the Site C dam must stop while geotechnical problems are explored.

26/09/20
Author: 
First Nations Leaders
Things are heating up in the north!

Facebook's retaliation against organizers of actions targeting KKR's financing of CGL shows the pressure is working! Join and share the online action this Monday.

As CGL approaches drilling near the Wedzin Kwa the Gidimt'en have built a new smokehouse on the river.

26/09/20
Author: 
Ethan Cox
Meryam Haddad

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Questions remain about the disqualification of Meryam Haddad, but the party isn’t answering

On Tuesday evening Green Party leadership candidate Meryam Haddad announced that she had been expelled from the contest. By Thursday morning, facing widespread backlash from party members, the party’s appeal body overturned the expulsion and reinstated Haddad.

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