British Columbia

Governments and non-profits urged buy more land rather than build more housing units

18/11/21

Author:

Lisa Cordasco

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The Vancouver Sun

Co-op Housing Federation of B.C. executive director, Thom Armstrong, said B.C.'s $7 billion dollar plan to create 114,000 affordable housing units by 2028 is "the most comprehensive in the country." PHOTO BY JASON PAYNE /PNG

Nov. 15, 2021

"The City of Vancouver has added more housing units per capita than any city in North America over the last 30 years yet housing prices have increased faster in Vancouver than any other North American city." — Patrick Condon

Housing advocates are expected to urge government officials to devote more effort to acquiring land for affordable housing rather than just building affordable housing units during a three-day conference starting Monday.

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The new language of climate denial

18/11/21

Author:

Cameron Fenton

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National Observer

A young girl takes the road to Isle de Jean Charles, which is disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico from erosion fuelled by climate change and land subsidence accelerated by the fossil fuel industry. Photo by Stacy Kranitz / Climate Visuals Countdown

November 18th 2021

For decades, the fossil fuel industry ran a wildly successful and well-funded campaign to muddy the waters when it came to climate change. It denied the science, created false equivalencies and dumped billions upon billions of dollars into projects designed to protect profits. Then, a few years ago, this lie was exposed just as the impacts of climate change began to be felt widely around the world.

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TMX pipeline and B.C.’s climate tragedy

18/11/21

Author:

John Woodside

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National Observer

Excavators work to clear a section of Highway 7 east of Agassiz following a mudslide. Photo via B.C. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure / Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

November 18th 2021

Extreme weather fuelled by climate breakdown is exposing the vulnerability of key infrastructure in British Columbia and is reviving questions among environmentalists and residents about building the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline.

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Wet’suwet’en land defenders say B.C., federal inaction prompted enforcement of Coastal GasLink eviction

17/11/21

Author:

Matt Simmons

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The Narwhal

Haudenosaunee supporters help to close the road in Gidimt'en territory near Houston, B.C., on Sunday, November 14, 2021. Hereditary chiefs served a mandatory evacuation order for all Coastal GasLink workers and sub-contractors, but only a handful of pickup trucks left the territory. Photo: Amber Bracken / The Narwhal

Nov. 16, 2021

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RCMP Set Up Illegal Exclusion Zone Blocking Food, Medicine, And People From Reaching Healing Center And Homes On The Territory - Take Action

17/11/21

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First Nations leaders

RCMP Set Up Illegal Exclusion Zone Blocking Food, Medicine, And People From Reaching Healing Center And Homes On The Territory

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The B.C. NDP is asleep at the wheel of the climate emergency. Here’s why

17/11/21

Author:

Robert Hackett

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rabble.ca

B.C. Premier John Horgan announcing "real climate action" in 2017. Credit: BC NDP / Flickr

[Editor: And now the floods!]

November 12, 2021

As British Columbia’s New Democratic Party prepares for its first biennial convention since winning the 2020 election, memories of last summer’s deadly heat domes and wildfires still burn deeply. B.C. is experiencing the global consequences of carbon-intensive extractivism – the kind of “rip and ship” (extract and export) economic policies pursued by the previous right-of-centre B.C. Liberal government for most of its 2001-2017 term of office.

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Gidimt'en Release Video Of Eviction Enforcement

16/11/21

Author:

First Nations leaders

Gidimt'en Release Video Of Eviction Enforcement

Nov. 16, 2021

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Rainstorms force evacuation of Canadian town, shut down existing Trans Mountain pipeline

15/11/21

Author:

David Ljunggren

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Reuters

A man rides a bicycle along the sea wall past a barge that came loose from its mooring and crashed ashore after rainstorms lashed the western Canadian province of British Columbia in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Jesse Winter

OTTAWA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Canadian helicopters carried out multiple missions on Monday to rescue hundreds of people trapped in their vehicles on a highway after huge rainstorms sparked landslides in the western province of British Columbia.

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