[Editor: video of event held in Vancouver on June 21, 2019. If you don't have time to listen to the whole event (2 hours and 44 minutes), then it is very worthwhile to go to the speech by Avi Lewis which begins just after 2:11:17. The complete program includes speakers David Suzuki, Kanahus Manuel, Harsha Walia, and Avi Lewis, with Anjali Appadurai as MC.]
IT'S COMING DOWN TO THE WIRE! On Tuesday June 18, Trudeau will announce the fate of the Trans Mountain Expansion Project. Leading up to this, Robyn Allan is releasing a new novel which explores the fiction behind Ottawa’s commitment to address climate change and how Trans Mountain’s expansion is a global warming machine.
Governments, aided by a compliant mainstream media, have encouraged extractive industries to manipulate Indigenous Peoples and the idea of reconciliation
Up to 60 per cent of the snowpack already melted due to unseasonably hot weather
May 27, 2019
With another hot, dry summer ahead, B.C. is poised for a third consecutive record-breaking fire season after 2017 and 2018 rewrote the record books.
Pockets of northeast and northwest B.C. are already rated at “extreme danger” of fire, while the Central Coast and parts of Vancouver Island were rated as high danger, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service.
CCPA's senior economist points out that the LNG Canada agreement locks in tax and subsidy provisions for 20 years against future changes by governments.
The B.C. government’s new fiscal framework for LNG is fundamentally at odds with the province’s CleanBC climate plan.
