British Columbia

08/05/20
Author: 
Alex Ballingall
Na’Moks

May 4, 2020

OTTAWA—The federal government’s export credit agency will lend up to $500 million to build the Coastal GasLink, a natural gas pipeline that sparked a national protest movement and reckoning over the Liberal administration’s commitment to Indigenous reconciliation.

06/05/20
Author: 
Charlie Smith
Dr. Bonnie Henry has raised concern about a community outbreak of COVID-19 at the Kearl Lake oilsands project north of Fort McMurray, Alberta.

May 2nd, 2020\

The provincial public health officer wants Alberta oilsands workers who come back to B.C. on their breaks to self-isolate.

Dr. Bonnie Henry pointed out that there continue to be positive test results for COVID-19 linked to a project north of Fort McMurray.

"One of the more challenging issues that we've had recently is an increase in numbers of cases here associated with the Kearl Lake plant in Alberta," Henry told reporters today. 

30/04/20
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Undated photo supplied by Conservation North and Stand.earth that the groups say shows a logging truck entering a pellet plant in Prince George, B.C. Dominick DellaSala Photo

April 30th 2020

Companies can cut down whole trees to be ground into pellets for fuel if they are “inferior,” says British Columbia’s natural resources ministry, a position that has led to concerns the government is "rebranding" old growth forests as low-quality in order to justify logging them.

26/04/20
Author: 
Vancouver Ecosocialists
We want change!!

Sister, Brothers, and Friends,

In less than a month our political landscape has changed drastically. Millions of

lives are disrupted in ways unimaginable a few weeks ago. In the absence of

well-organized progressive forces, fighting effectively for progressive policies,

the post-coronavirus world will be designed by corporate bankers and grim for

all the rest of us.

Already there are important campaigns against bailing out the fossil fuel

industry and in favour of closing the industrial construction camps and

26/04/20
Author: 
Leadnow
TransLink says if it doesn't receive emergency funding from the federal or provincial governments, there could be unprecedented cuts to local transit services. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
Metro Vancouver’s transit authority, TransLink, just slashed services that tens of thousands of us rely on, including frontline and healthcare workers and ordinary British Columbians who take the bus or SkyTrain to work every day.[1]

25/04/20
Author: 
Colton Davies
TMX pipes
Updated: Most of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Kamloops to start in September
 
April 22, 2020 04:44 pm
 

The mayor of Kamloops says physical construction on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion isn’t expected to start here now until September.

Ken Christian says pre-construction work is still happening at the yard on Mission Flats Road with about 100 employees.

25/04/20
Author: 
Colton Davies
TMX pipes
Updated: Most of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Kamloops to start in September
 
April 22, 2020 04:44 pm
Updated: Most of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in Kamloops to start in September
22/04/20
Author: 
Matthew Behrens
Sidewalk chalk rainbow - Image: Amanda Slater/Flickr

The ongoing pandemic epoch has exposed a clear duality marked both by increasingly obvious and blatant inequalities, hypocrisies and systemic failures as well as beautiful, loving and creative responses in the form of mutual aid communities and direct action to save lives.

22/04/20
Author: 
Ian Holliday
Homeless activists and their supporters occupied the recently closed North Surrey Recreation Centre for several hours Wednesday night to call attention to the danger the COVID-19 pandemic poses to people living on the streets or in insufficient housing. (CTV)

April 1, 2020

VANCOUVER -- Homeless activists and their supporters occupied the recently closed North Surrey Recreation Centre for several hours Wednesday night to call attention to the danger the COVID-19 pandemic poses to people living on the streets or in insufficient housing.

Dubbing the occupation the "Hothouse Squat," the group issued a press release saying it planned to occupy the vacant building as a safe place to live during the pandemic.

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