Climate Change

Aug. 22, 2020

Aug 17, 2020

Even a low-ball prediction for the number of sockeye returning to B.C. river was too high and First Nations and conservationists say government mismanagement and lice infestations are partly to blame

Scientists at the Pacific Salmon Commission knew 2020 wouldn’t be a great year for Fraser River sockeye salmon — but they didn’t know it would be this bad.

19 Aug 2020

 August 17th, 2020

Today's resignation of Canada's finance minister, Bill Morneau, has been the talk of the chattering classes in Ottawa and Toronto.

But here in southwestern B.C., he'll always be remembered as the man who forced an economically absurd pipeline on residents of this region, including the Coast Salish peoples.

[Editor: This conversation makes some very good points.]

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16,021 views•Aug 13, 2020

8/9/20 

Vancouver physician and university professor Tim Takaro is staging a treetop sit-in to protest the expansion of Canada's Trans Mountain Pipeline, which carries oil from the country's Alberta province to the coast in British Columbia. The government-backed expansion project calls for trees along New Westminster's Burnett River, where Takaro is stationed 82 feet from the ground, to be cut down before mid-September.