British Columbia

Oct. 26, 2022

A ‘culture of cheating,’ party insiders say, stopped climate activist Anjali Appadurai from becoming premier

It was early September, and a top official in B.C.’s New Democratic Party had put in a call to the Ottawa office of Canada’s largest labour organization. The caller was panicked.

“We fucked up,” they said, according to a source familiar with the call.

Oct. 25, 2022

Given the company’s environmental record, the government should stop work on the pipeline rather than subsiziding it.

As Coastal GasLink drills under the Wedzin Kwa (Morice River), I have been reflecting on my visit to Wet’suwet’en territory this summer. My colleague, Green MLA Adam Olsen, and I had the great honour of being invited to the territory as guests and witnesses.

See video here 

Oct. 22, 2022

With promises to rejuvenate forests from the air, tree-planting start-ups are looking to supplement shovels and long days of labour with swarms of seed-bearing aerial drones. A growing target: B.C.'s burnt forests.

The charred remains of Douglas fir and Lodgepole pine forests once sent their seeds fluttering through the air — often in the belly or beak of a bird — but not like this. 

Oct. 22, 2022

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

Video link: https://youtu.be/HYh6gEhd0yc

Oct. 21, 2022

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.

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.

Oct. 20, 2022