British Columbia

RCMP Commissioner Sued by Civil Liberties Group for Preventing Release of Watchdog Report into Police Spying

11/11/20

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Group Statement

For Immediate Release

(le français suit)

November 10, 2020 - Ottawa, ON (Unceded Algonquin Anishnaabeg Territory) – Today, the BC Civil Liberties Association (BCCLA) announces it is launching a lawsuit against RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki. The BCCLA is suing the RCMP Commissioner for inexcusable delays preventing the release of a civilian watchdog report into RCMP spying on Indigenous and climate advocates.

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Trudeau Lobbies Biden to Maintain Climate-Destroying Trump Policy

11/11/20

Author:

Yves Engler

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Common Dreams

U.S. President Donald Trump greets Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House February 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

November 10, 2020

Why is Ottawa trying to maintain one of the Republican's worst environmental policies?

U.S. President Donald Trump's climate criminality has been shocking. His administration's contribution to worsening this existential threat to humanity will be remembered as his most damaging policy.

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Vancouver’s climate plan is too costly, runs risk of damaging local businesses: public policy professor

04/11/20

Author:

Frances Bula

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The Globe and Mail

A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past the boarded up shops along Robson Street in downtown Vancouver on May 4, 2020. JONATHAN HAYWARD/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Special to The Globe and Mail

November 2, 2020

Vancouver’s climate-emergency response plan relies too much on new fees for average residents and on expensive regulation for buildings, says a public policy professor who is a member of provincial and national groups working on solutions to climate change.

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Fracking shatters illusions of a clean B.C.

02/11/20

Author:

Peter McCartney

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Straight

CNRL West Stoddart gas plant PETER MCCARTNEY/WILDERNESS COMMITTEE

October 30th, 2020

Wind howls in my ears. My fingers are numb. It’s midnight and I’m on top of Pink Mountain, near Mile 147 of the Alaska Highway in northeastern British Columbia. As I look out into the night, dozens of gas plants light up the horizon. This is fracking country.

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Trans Mountain will be forced to re-drill under Thompson River

02/11/20

Author:

Jessica Wallace

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Kamloops This Week

A Trans Mountain worksite along Mission Flats Road, where pipe from across the Thompson River at Kamloops Airport will be pulled through. Photograph By MICHAEL POTESTIO/KTW

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Trans Mountain will be re-drilling under the Thompson River, following what it called “technical challenges” encountered while installing pipe during its pipeline twinning project.

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Action: Help uphold the rights of Secwepemc land defenders at the annual meeting for the Trans Mountain pipeline

01/11/20

Author:

Brent Patterson - PBI

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Peace Brigades International-Canada

October 31, 2020

Canada ratified the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination more than 50 years ago on October 14, 1970.

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) is the body of independent experts that monitors implementation of the Convention.

In December 2019, the Committee called on Canada to “immediately cease construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion project … until free, prior and informed consent is obtained from all the Secwepemc people.”

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Vancouver just endorsed the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. Who’s next?

01/11/20

Author:

Aaron Saad

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ricochet.media

Canada Fossil Fuel Proliferation Treaty - Photo: Jeff Wallace

Oct. 29, 2020

It’s the highest-profile success to date of a new initiative aimed at reining in the threat of fossil fuels

On Oct. 15, not long after enduring days of skies choked with U.S. wildfire smoke, Vancouver became the first city in the world to endorse something bold: the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.

It’s the highest-profile success to date of a new initiative aimed at reining in the threat of fossil fuels.

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Trans Mountain expansion hits snag, must re-start drilling beneath Thompson River in Kamloops

01/11/20

Author:

James Peters

Link:

CFJC Today

Oct 29, 2020

KAMLOOPS — Trans Mountain (TMX) has had a major setback in its expansion project through Kamloops.

The pipeline twinning includes a segment beneath the Thompson River that must be installed after Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) is completed.

In a statement emailed to CFJC Today, Trans Mountain says installation of the pipe in the segment beneath the river encountered “technical challenges” that require the entire HDD process to be restarted.

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Trans Mountain expansion may not be economically viable, says think tank report

30/10/20

Author:

David Thurton

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CBC News

Oct 29, 2020

Workers unload pipe to start right-of-way construction for the Trans Mountain expansion project in Acheson, Alta., Dec. 3, 2019. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson)

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New report questions Trans Mountain expansion’s ‘Asian markets’ rationale

30/10/20

Author:

Carl Meyer

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National Observer

October 30th 2020

A new study is questioning one of the central rationales for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project — that it would allow Canada to fetch a fair price for its oil.

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British Columbia

Why is Ottawa trying to maintain one of the Republican's worst environmental policies?

It’s the highest-profile success to date of a new initiative aimed at reining in the threat of fossil fuels

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