British Columbia

Avi Lewis to run for federal NDP in B.C. riding

18/05/21
Author: 
Carl Meyer
Link: 
National Observer
Documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis will run for the federal NDP, he announced Monday. The Leap photo / Facebook

May 17th 2021

Documentary filmmaker Avi Lewis will run in the next federal election as an NDP candidate, he announced Monday.

Lewis is expected to be acclaimed as the NDP candidate for the riding of West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country during a campaign launch scheduled for Saturday. Liberal MP Patrick Weiler currently holds the seat.

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British Columbia
Climate Change
Green New Deal/LEAP
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RCMP begin crackdown on Fairy Creek blockade

18/05/21
Author: 
Rochelle Baker
Link: 
National Observer
Old growth tree - Fairy Creek blockade activists in the Caycuse camp expect RCMP arrests by Tuesday morning. File photo by Will O'Connell

May 17th 2021

Fairy Creek old-growth activists are worried the RCMP will move into protest camps and make arrests with impunity while denying media and other legal observers the ability to scrutinize their enforcement of an injunction order on southwestern Vancouver Island.

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British Columbia
Ecology/Environment
Forestry
Protest - Revolt
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Time to stop playing nice with fossil fuel companies

17/05/21
Author: 
Seth Klein
Link: 
National Observer

May 17th 2021

Video here.

In the face of the climate emergency, this is the time of our Phoney War. Most of us know the battle for our lives must soon get underway, and most of our leaders — in government and industry — are now talking tough on climate. But in deeds, they aren’t there yet.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
LNG - Fracking
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Drought is on Metro Vancouver's horizon — will fixing water scarcity cost too much?

17/05/21
Author: 
Stefan Labbé
Link: 
Burnaby Now
Coquitlam Reservoir supplies up to 40 per cent of Metro Vancouver's water — in the coming decades that's expected to double. (via UVIC Environmental Law Centre)

May 15, 2021

Metro Vancouver has banked at least 60% of the region's future water supply on the Coquitlam Reservoir. But as it moves to secure municipal water for the next half-century, the fate of an Indigenous community and the river they live on is at stake.

On a recent sunlit afternoon, Heidi Walsh stepped onto the observation deck of a century-old concrete tower overlooking 600 square kilometres of mountain forest. 

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British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Fisheries
Forestry
Indigenous Peoples
Social
Urban
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Vancouver named 'Anti-Asian Hate Crime Capital of North America'

12/05/21
Author: 
Brendan Kergin
Link: 
New Westminster Record
Asian Hate - sign -U.S. media outlet Bloomberg has used crime data to determine Vancouver, Canada is the 'Anti-Asian Hate Crime Capital of North America.'Photo via Wachiwit / Getty Images

"Maybe Vancouver isn’t the bastion of progressive multiculturalism it thinks it is."

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British Columbia
Canada
Social
USA
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Biden turns to emergency powers to counter Colonial Pipeline disruption

12/05/21
Author: 
Yoel Minkoff - SA Editor
Link: 
Seeking Alpha

This might have an impact on the perceived "need" for TMX. - Gene McGuckin

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Alberta
British Columbia
Canada
Oil - Pipelines
USA
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New Westminster women call for guaranteed livable income

07/05/21
Author: 
Julie MacLellan
Link: 
New Westminster Record
Members of the B.C. Women's Alliance (and their children) in New Westminster hung a banner in Victoria Hill as part of the group's campaign for a guaranteed livable income.contributed

May 4, 2021

Banner in Victoria Hill was part of a provincewide campaign to raise awareness of the need for economic justice as we emerge from the pandemic

Women in New Westminster are adding their voices to a B.C.-wide call for a guaranteed livable income.

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British Columbia
Labour - Unions
Social
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UPDATE: B.C.’s highest court upholds New Westminster’s anti-renovictions bylaw

07/05/21
Author: 
Theresa McManus
Link: 
New Westminster Record
Tenants descended on New Westminster City Hall in February 2019 to support the city's plan to take action to prevent renovictions.Record/File

May 3, 2021

Tenants praised city's efforts to tackle renoviction

The B.C. Court of Appeal has upheld a City of New Westminster bylaw aimed at deterring renovictions.

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British Columbia
Social
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Saving the salmon: why the Gitanyow are creating a new Indigenous Protected Area

03/05/21
Author: 
Matt Simmons
Link: 
The Narwhal
Chief Wii Litsxw (Gregory Rush) hiking in Gitanyow territory. The area behind him is part of the so-called "Golden Triangle," coveted by mining companies. Photo: Farhan Umedaly / VoVo Productions

 Apr 17, 2021

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British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Fisheries
Indigenous Peoples
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Extinction Rebellion Protest on Granville Bridge - Eight Arrested

03/05/21
Author: 
Staff Reporter
Link: 
Vancouver Sun
Extinction Rebellion, a global environmental movement, occupies the Granville Bridge in Vancouver, BC, May 2, 2021. PHOTO BY ARLEN REDEKOP /PNG

May 02, 2021

The arrests were made after activists refused to leave the bridge on Sunday afternoon

Eight people have been arrested after a group of environmental protesters shut down the Granville Bridge Sunday, one day after the same band of activists disrupted traffic by occupying one of the city’s busiest intersections.

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British Columbia
Climate Change
Environmental Groups
Protest - Revolt
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