British Columbia

Anjali’s Appadurai’s bid to be our next premier - How a 32-year-old climate activist is shaking up the race to be B.C.’s next premier

04/09/22

Author:

Arno Kopecky

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The Narwhal

Aug. 29, 2022

In a litmus test for the political clout of the climate movement, Anjali Appadurai, who’s never held public office, is gunning for an upset over establishment favourite David Eby in the NDP leadership contest

Inspired, bemused or aghast, there’s one thing almost every description of Anjali Appadurai’s leadership run agrees on: it probably won’t end in victory.

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TAKE ACTION! Anjali Appadurai is the Leader the Party and the Planet Need

31/08/22

Author:

Tom Sandborn

B.C. NDP leadership candidate David Eby Is "frustrated" that climate activist Anjali Appadurai has entered the race because, by robbing him of his predicted coronation, it delays crowning the winner by months. PHOTO BY NICK PROCAYLO /PNG

Please read and act on the article below--and then pass it on. I've known Tom for a long time, and I know it was not easy for him to write it.

Solidarity,

Gene McGuckin

Aug. 31, 2022

Hi, all

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Heroes to hostage takers; what we talk about when we talk about strikes

30/08/22

Author:

Tom Sandborn

Link:

rabble.ca

BCGEU members on the picket line. Credit: BCGEU / Twitter

Aug. 26, 2022

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Will Canada bet on the wrong solution to Europe’s energy crisis?

24/08/22

Author:

Rob Miller

Link:

National Observer

Europe and Canada need to invest in the energy transition, not new fossil fuel infrastructure that will start becoming stranded assets over the next 10 to 15 years. Photo by Lemon Pepper Pictures/Unsplash

Aug. 23, 2022

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Energy regulator gives Trans Mountain a ‘break’ on possible oil spill costs, say MPs, environmentalists

24/08/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

Link:

National Observer

Trans Mountain will not have to come up with an additional $1.1 billion to cover the cleanup cost of possible oil spills from TMX, the Canada Energy Regulator has decided. Photo by Jesse Winter / Canada's National Observer

Aug. 23, 2022

Trans Mountain will not have to come up with an additional $1.1 billion to cover the cleanup cost of possible oil spills from its expansion project, the Canada Energy Regulator has decided.

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Baldrey vs. Appadurai—he’s baffled by her aggressively progressive NDP leadership campaign

21/08/22

Author:

Martyn Brown

Link:

The Straight

Anjali Appadurai is not only seeking the B.C. NDP leadership, she's trying to steer her party back on a more progressive course.

Editor: You can join the BC NDP and vote for her as leader, Check this out - https://dogwoodbc.ca/news/bcndp-leadership-anjali-appadurai/

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MPs raise concerns over pipeline construction obstructing salmon run

15/08/22

Author:

Natasha Bulowski

Link:

National Observer

A dead salmon is photographed in the Coquihalla River near a Trans Mountain worksite. Photo by Kate Tairyan

Aug. 12, 2022

Four B.C. MPs are urging the federal government to halt the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline and expansion project at least until salmon have finished spawning. The call comes after environmental group Protect the Planet documented salmon dying near a Trans Mountain worksite in Hope, B.C., last week.

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How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia

29/07/22

Author:

Ashley Braun, originally published by Hakai Magazine

Link:

Resilience

On Calvert Island, British Columbia, the subtle rock line of an extant clam garden is a reminder of how Indigenous peoples turned the sea into a shellfish garden. Photo courtesy of the Hakai Institute

July 20, 2022

By focusing on reciprocity and the common good—both for the community and the environment—sea gardening created bountiful food without putting populations at risk of collapse.

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Cost of Coastal GasLink pipeline leaps 70% to $11.2 billion

29/07/22

Author:

Christopher Reynolds

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National Observer

Until Thursday, the cost estimate for the 670-kilometre pipeline, which aims to carry natural gas to the LNG Canada processing and export facility in Kitimat, B.C., stood at $6.6 billion. File photo

July 28th 2022

The projected cost of the contentious Coastal GasLink pipeline spanning northern British Columbia has jumped 70 per cent to $11.2 billion in the wake of a freshly inked deal between operator TC Energy Corp. and the group building a liquified natural gas terminal on the West Coast.

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A Post-Apology ‘To Do’ List

27/07/22

Author:

Cindy Blackstock

Link:

The Tyee

Nancy Saddleman (centre), 82, cries as Pope Francis gives mass in Edmonton, during his papal visit across Canada on Tuesday. Photo by Jason Franson, the Canadian Press.

The fact is that the soul-saving missionaries believed the main job of their "educational" institutions was to "get the Indian out of the child." That cannot be divorced from the simultaneous imperialist project of getting "the Indian" off the land. And the shallowness, if not blatant hypocrisy, of the Papal apology cannot be divorced from the many current battles occurring today over pushing Indigenous peoples off their lands to make way for oil/gas wells, pipelines, mines, highways, etc. etc. etc.

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British Columbia

In a litmus test for the political clout of the climate movement, Anjali Appadurai, who’s never held public office, is gunning for an upset over establishment favourite David Eby in the NDP leadership contest

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