British Columbia

21/10/22
Author: 
Matthew McCreadie
Screenshot via CHCH News coverage on YouTube.

Oct. 20, 2022

The school system in the U.S. has emerged as a prominent front in the right’s never-ending culture war, and Canada’s system may be next.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the school system in the United States has increasingly been targeted by the political right in its never-ending culture war. 

19/10/22
Author: 
Michelle Connolly and Ben Parfitt
Logs piled up awaiting conversion to wood pellets at a factory now owned by multinational Drax Group. Photo from Stand.earth.

Oct. 19, 2022

As disaster looms in our old-growth forests, BC needs to address this burning question.

Two respected news organizations have aired recent investigative documentaries showing how trees in B.C.’s drastically over-cut primary forests are chopped down, only to be turned into wood pellets that are burned by the millions of tonnes to make electricity in the United Kingdom.

19/10/22
Author: 
CBC - The Early Edition
Anjali Appadurai in Burnaby, B.C., on Sept. 17. The B.C. NDP leadership candidate now faces being disqualified after the official in charge of the race said she broke campaign rules. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

Oct. 19, 2022

Candidate says she did nothing wrong after report said she improperly used third parties for membership drive

 

The official in charge of the B.C. NDP's leadership race has recommended candidate Anjali Appadurai be disqualified after an investigation into a wave of new membership sign-ups during the campaign, according to a leaked report.

19/10/22
Author: 
CBC - The Early Edition
Anjali Appadurai

Website editor: Take a listen to this!  Very good points made here!

Oct. 19, 2022:

The BC NDP will vote tonight whether or not to disqualify Anjali Appadurai, after the climate activist and leadership hopeful is alleged to have engaged in "serious improper conduct". We hear from political science professor Hamish Telford to get his reaction.

18/10/22
Author: 
Rumneek Johal
Right-Wing Group Funded by Lululemon Founder Helped Promote Film Demonizing Vancouver’s Homeless

Oct. 14, 2022

A group funded by Lululemon founder Chip Wilson sponsored an event that brought together Vancouver’s police union and right-wing political activists

Vancouver’s police union president, city council candidates and far-right political activists came together at a film screening event last week that was sponsored by an organization funded by the founder of Lululemon.

17/10/22
Author: 
Richard Zussman
Anjali Appadurai is now in the running to become the next leader of the BC NDP. Global News

Oct. 17, 2022

BC NDP leadership hopeful Anjali Appadurai is promising a sweeping climate action plan including free transit in urban centres, an immediate moratorium on new fossil fuel extraction permits and a new oil and gas excess profits tax.

16/10/22
Author: 
Akshay Kulkarni
An independent modelling group says that British Columbia is underreporting all major COVID-19 metrics — cases, hospital admissions, and deaths — making it difficult for citizens to assess their risks out in public. (Ben Nelms/CBC)
Oct. 16, 2022

An independent modelling group says that B.C. is underreporting all major COVID-19 metrics, making it impossible for residents to know their true risk.

According to a report published last week by the B.C. COVID-19 Modelling Group, blood sample data shows that the number of new cases could be underreported by as much as 100 times.

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