Climate Change

21/10/22
Author: 
Avi Lewis
Anjali Appadurai on Monday announced her bid to run for the leadership of the B.C. NDP — and the province's premiership. Photo provided by Anjali Appadurai

Oct. 20, 2022

There were no pets, dead people, or ghosts involved.

 

Nonetheless, the B.C. NDP has disqualified leadership candidate Anjali Appadurai, citing collusion with a third party (the campaigning organization Dogwood) in recruiting many thousands of new members.

 

And with that, one of the fastest, most dramatic political insurgencies in Canadian history reaches the end of its first phase. But I don’t think we’re anywhere near done yet.

 

20/10/22
Author: 
Associated Press
Vehicles are seen on a flooded road in Lokoja, Nigeria, on Thursday. Nigeria experiences annual flooding, especially in coastal areas, but this year's floods are the worst in more than a decade. (Ayodeji Oluwagbemiga/Reuters)

Oct 17, 2022 

More than 1.3 million people have been displaced by heavier than usual rains

The death toll from floods in Nigeria this year has increased to 603 as local authorities race to get relief items to hundreds of thousands being evacuated from their submerged homes.

More than 1.3 million people have been displaced by the disaster, which has affected people across 33 of Nigeria's 36 states, the country's Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs said late Sunday.

20/10/22
Author: 
The Associated Press
Hundreds of homes have been flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia’s southeast. With more rain in the forecast, officials expect river levels to remain dangerously high for days.

Website editor: Extreme weather -  In BC drought.  In Australia floods.

Oct 14, 2022

Man found dead inside submerged car in New South Wales, 2 others reported missing

Homes were flooded in Melbourne and other cities in Australia's southeast on Friday with rivers forecast to remain dangerously high for days.

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.

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