Indigenous Peoples

In recent weeks members have publicly quit, others have circulated petitions and some have shared stories of what they perceive to be dirty tricks from a party leadership determined to ostracize them.

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British Columbia

Coastal GasLink drops charges against journalists arrested on Wet’suwet’en territory

25/12/21

Author:

Emma Gilchrist

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The Narwhal

Dec. 24, 2021

Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano were detained for three nights, attracting international scrutiny of ongoing RCMP violations of press freedoms

Charges have been dropped against journalists Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano, who were arrested and detained for three nights on civil contempt charges while reporting on militarized police raids on Wet’suwet’en territory in northwest B.C. on Nov. 19.

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Wet'suwet'en Evict Coastal Gaslink; Re-Establish Coyote CampCoyote Camp Re Occupied Sunday Morning! Week of Action Begins Today!

20/12/21

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First Nations leaders

Wet'suwet'en Evict Coastal Gaslink From Drill Site; Re-Establish Coyote Camp

Dec. 20, 2021

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First Nations Need More Time on NDP's Quickie Deferral Proposal

19/12/21

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The Canadian Press

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Times Colonist

Dec. 16, 2021

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says it is finalizing plans with First Nations that have indicated support for plans to defer logging in certain old-growth forests, while it continues talks with nations that need more time to decide.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says it is finalizing plans with First Nations that have indicated support for plans to defer logging in certain old-growth forests, while it continues talks with nations that need more time to decide.

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‘The Dawn of Everything’ gets human history wrong

18/12/21

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Climate and Capitalism

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Climate and Capitalism

December 17, 2021

Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of a widely-praised book.

Introduction

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New fisheries minister wades into fish politics, cutting herring harvest in half

18/12/21

Author:

Rochelle Baker

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National Observer

Federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray is cutting the commercial herring fishing allocation to 10 per cent, down from 20 per cent last year, to protect the valuable forage fish and threatened salmon. Photo courtesy of Fisheries Ministry

Dec. 16, 2021

In her first major decision, new federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray has reduced the West Coast commercial herring fishery by half.

Wading into the thick of fish politics Thursday, Murray said the decision is based on an abundance of caution given herring are a critical food for endangered salmon stocks — further jeopardized by the double whammy of fire and floods in B.C. this year.

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Reforming BC Timber Sales: How to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear

18/12/21

Author:

Saul Arbess

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The Evergreen Alliance

With much of BC Timber Sales' old-growth logging on pause, the Province could direct the publicly-owned agency to focus its logging program on second-growth forests using ecosystem-based management.

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Many NDP members upset at government's 'impossible balancing act' on gas pipeline

14/12/21

Author:

Vaughn Palmer

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The Vancouver Sun

A notice to clear the road from RCMP sits in a tree fell across the road block access to Gidimt'en checkpoint near Houston, B.C., on Jan. 8, 2020. PHOTO BY JASON FRANSON /THE CANADIAN PRESS

Dec. 13, 2021

Party brass have worked behind the scenes to tamp down dissent, but some bubbled over in weekend convention

VICTORIA — The B.C. NDP convention on Sunday called for an independent investigation into allegations the RCMP used excessive force against protesters at the standoff over the Coastal GasLink pipeline.

The party accused the RCMP of setting back reconciliation with the Wet’suwet’en Indigenous people, whose hereditary leaders oppose construction of the natural gas pipeline through their traditional territory.

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‘It’s a Proud Day’: Oregon Landowners Celebrate Demise of LNG project, Even as Legal Questions Go Unanswered

13/12/21

Author:

Nick Cunningham

Link:

DeSmog

Activists protest Jordan Cove LNG in Salem, OR. June, 2016. Credit: Francis Eatherington (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Dec.6, 2021

A coalition of Oregon landowners, environmental groups, and Native tribes fended off Jordan Cove for more than a decade. But the legal implications of the project’s demise outside of Oregon are unclear.

Oregon’s 15-year battle against the Jordan Cove LNG project quietly came to an end on December 1, bringing relief to dozens of landowners that live in the path of the proposed project.

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Indigenous Peoples

RCMP raids at Wet’suwet’en and Fairy Creek, and the silence of the federal party, are resurfacing old divisions among Canada’s New Democrats

Amber Bracken and Michael Toledano were detained for three nights, attracting international scrutiny of ongoing RCMP violations of press freedoms

VICTORIA — The British Columbia government says it is finalizing plans with First Nations that have indicated support for plans to defer logging in certain old-growth forests, while it continues talks with nations that need more time to decide.

Is inequality inevitable? Is freedom just a choice? Two materialist critiques of a widely-praised book.

Party brass have worked behind the scenes to tamp down dissent, but some bubbled over in weekend convention

A coalition of Oregon landowners, environmental groups, and Native tribes fended off Jordan Cove for more than a decade. But the legal implications of the project’s demise outside of Oregon are unclear.

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