Climate Change

21/10/22
Author: 
Charlie Smith
Premier John Horgan has supported fossil-fuel interests throughout his career.

Oct. 20, 2022

He's been a very good friend to the fossil-fuel industry dating back to his time as a senior government staffer in the 1990s.

The B.C. NDP used to have lots of environmentalists.

Let’s not forget that the B.C. NDP created the Agricultural Land Reserve when Dave Barrett was premier.

During these years from 1972 to 1975, there was a doubling of parks and wilderness areas, including the formation of Cypress Provincial Park on the North Shore

21/10/22
Author: 
Paul Willcocks
Anjali Appadurai challenged the NDP’s decision to bar her from the leadership race Wednesday. Photo for The Tyee by Zak Vescera.

Oct. 20, 2022

The NDP has managed to make what could have been an energizing leadership transfer into a debacle.

What a very bad day for the BC NDP. Its leadership campaign has descended into chaos and controversy.

David Eby will become party leader and premier even though he’s likely supported by a minority of current members. And the competence of the party’s old guard appears highly questionable.

21/10/22
Author: 
Alex Cosh
Anjali Appadurai/Twitter

Oct. 20, 2022

The B.C. NDP’s provincial executive council voted to disqualify Anjali Appadurai from the party’s leadership race last night, against strong objections from party members and elected NDP representatives across the province and country who called on the party to let her run.

The party’s decision paves the way for former attorney general and minister responsible for housing David Eby to assume the party leadership — and premiership — unopposed.

21/10/22
Author: 
Avi Lewis
Anjali Appadurai on Monday announced her bid to run for the leadership of the B.C. NDP — and the province's premiership. Photo provided by Anjali Appadurai

Oct. 20, 2022

There were no pets, dead people, or ghosts involved.

 

Nonetheless, the B.C. NDP has disqualified leadership candidate Anjali Appadurai, citing collusion with a third party (the campaigning organization Dogwood) in recruiting many thousands of new members.

 

And with that, one of the fastest, most dramatic political insurgencies in Canadian history reaches the end of its first phase. But I don’t think we’re anywhere near done yet.

 

20/10/22
Author: 
Associated Press
Vehicles are seen on a flooded road in Lokoja, Nigeria, on Thursday. Nigeria experiences annual flooding, especially in coastal areas, but this year's floods are the worst in more than a decade. (Ayodeji Oluwagbemiga/Reuters)

Oct 17, 2022 

More than 1.3 million people have been displaced by heavier than usual rains

The death toll from floods in Nigeria this year has increased to 603 as local authorities race to get relief items to hundreds of thousands being evacuated from their submerged homes.

More than 1.3 million people have been displaced by the disaster, which has affected people across 33 of Nigeria's 36 states, the country's Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs said late Sunday.

20/10/22
Author: 
The Associated Press
Hundreds of homes have been flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia’s southeast. With more rain in the forecast, officials expect river levels to remain dangerously high for days.

Website editor: Extreme weather -  In BC drought.  In Australia floods.

Oct 14, 2022

Man found dead inside submerged car in New South Wales, 2 others reported missing

Homes were flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia's southeast on Friday with rivers forecast to remain dangerously high for days.

19/10/22
Author: 
Michelle Connolly and Ben Parfitt
Logs piled up awaiting conversion to wood pellets at a factory now owned by multinational Drax Group. Photo from Stand.earth.

Oct. 19, 2022

As disaster looms in our old-growth forests, BC needs to address this burning question.

Two respected news organizations have aired recent investigative documentaries showing how trees in B.C.’s drastically over-cut primary forests are chopped down, only to be turned into wood pellets that are burned by the millions of tonnes to make electricity in the United Kingdom.

19/10/22
Author: 
CBC - The Early Edition
Anjali Appadurai in Burnaby, B.C., on Sept. 17. The B.C. NDP leadership candidate now faces being disqualified after the official in charge of the race said she broke campaign rules. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

Oct. 19, 2022

Candidate says she did nothing wrong after report said she improperly used third parties for membership drive

 

The official in charge of the B.C. NDP's leadership race has recommended candidate Anjali Appadurai be disqualified after an investigation into a wave of new membership sign-ups during the campaign, according to a leaked report.

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