The sun shone brightly on the hopeful faces of close to 200 climate concerned citizens in the lakecity who joined hundreds of thousands across the world in the Global Climate Strike and March.
VANCOUVER – The Federal Court of Appeal has granted a temporary injunction to Alberta’s so-called turn-off-the-taps-legislation.
The Government of British Columbia won a temporary injunction in the fight against the bill. B.C.’s Attorney General David Eby addressed the decision shortly after it was made.
It’s another legal hurdle for the Trans Mountain pipeline and oil tanker expansion proposal.
Today, B.C.’s Court of Appeal ordered provincial ministers to reconsider the conditions hastily attached to the project by former Premier Christy Clark.
There’s no timeline on that process, but First Nations are encouraging the province to partner with them and “jointly review” Trans Mountain’s threats to rivers, beaches, drinking water, neighbourhoods and human health.
If nothing else, nine days in the North Fraser Pretrial Centre taught me quite a few valuable (and in some cases, unexpected) lessons about the realities of short term incarceration in Canada’s prison system. These included the realization that while extremely unpleasant, a short-term internment is not necessarily an awful experience, depending on how you approach it, and that you may encounter significantly more kindness and humanity from fellow inmates than you might otherwise expect.
On a sunny day in late August, Justin Trudeau and John Horgan posed for photographs at a hydro-electricity training site in Surrey, B.C., just outside of Vancouver.
The corporation linked to the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project demanded a group of teenagers cover their legal bills — before promptly changing its mind without explanation.
Youth Stop TMX, a group made up of Olivier Adkin-Kaya, 18; Lena Andres, 17; Nina Tran, 18; and Rebecca Wolf Gage, 13, had applied for judicial review of the pipeline project, arguing that it violates their inherent rights to life, liberty, security of person and equality.
![[Top photo: Youth Stop TMX, comprised of Rebecca Wolf Gage (top left), Nina Tran (top right), Olivier Adkin-Kaya (bottom left), and Lena Andres (bottom right) argue Trans Mountain infringes on their constitutional rights. Photos provided by Youth Against TMX]](https://ecosocialistsvancouver.org/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/article-image/collage_1-1-1_0_0.jpg?itok=5fABUJBH)
