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UBC planning students tally up climate change adaptation costs for BC communities

14/06/21
Author: 
Andrew Gage - Staff Lawyer
Link: 
West Coast Environmental Law
Cost menu for climate change adaptation
May 19, 2021

“Could we have the bill, please?”

When you go to a restaurant, a menu helps you select what to eat and how much you might pay for it. The Cost Menu for Climate Change Adaptation Measures (Part I), released today, helps communities figure out how to keep themselves safe from two expected impacts of climate change – wildfires and extreme precipitation – and what it might cost them.

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Category: 
British Columbia
Canada
Climate Change
Social
Urban
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Burnaby not the only school district using exam that asks how First Nations benefited from colonizers

13/06/21
Author: 
Cornelia Naylor
Link: 
Burnaby Now
1 / 3 An 1863 illustration titled 'Innu at an HBC trading post' was included in a social studies exam that asked students how First Nations benefited from colonial relationships.Contributed

June 17, 2021

Materials created by Western Canadian Learning Network used in online courses provincewide

Burnaby’s school superintendent said an online test question that asked Grade 9 students how First Nations people benefited from their relationship with European colonizers and “took advantage” of it should never have been asked – and the district will be reaching out to the educational consortium that created it to express concern.

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British Columbia
Canada
Indigenous Peoples
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Big Tech and “Cleaner” Fossil Fuels Won’t Save Us

13/06/21
Author: 
David Camfield
Link: 
Midnight Sun
water on branch - Photo: Gary Yost
6. 2. 2021
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'Alternative' energy and less energy
Canada
Climate Change
Ecosocialism
Green New Deal/LEAP
Social
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Little More Than a PR Gimmick': Critics Say G7 Vaccine Donation Pledges Won't Cut It

13/06/21
Author: 
Jake Johnson
Link: 
Common Dreams
Activists wearing giant heads of the G7 leaders tussle over a giant COVID-19 vaccine syringe during an action of NGO's on Swanpool Beach in Falmouth, Cornwall, England, Friday, June 11, 2021. Leaders of the G7 begin their first of three days of meetings on Friday in Carbis Bay, in which they will discuss COVID-19, climate, foreign policy and the economy. Depicted from left to right, Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, Italy's Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Cha
June 11, 2021

Public health campaigners estimate that promised donations from rich countries would be enough to cover just 11% of the world's unvaccinated population.

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Global
Protest - Revolt
Social
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Social Housing Now

12/06/21
Author: 
Democratic Socialists of Vancouver
Link: 
Democratic Socialists of Vancouver
Social Housing Now
Copy this poster (below), print and post!
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Category: 
British Columbia
Social
Urban
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White supremacist flyer appears on Metro Vancouver transit

12/06/21
Author: 
Elana Shepert
Link: 
Burnaby Now
A disturbing flyer that claims "anitwhiteism" is on the rise was seen on Metro Vancouver transit on June 9, 2021.Photo via willie1989/Getty Images and @gloomybb / Twitter
June 10, 2021

A disturbing flyer that claims "anitwhiteism" is on the rise has been seen on Metro Vancouver transit. 

An image of a flyer is circulating on social media that asks people to "report antiwhite behaviour" they observe in North Delta and Surrey's Newton area. It also contains a link to a website called "No White Guilt" which features several disturbing videos.

The flyer was reportedly discovered on the side of a TransLink bus. 

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Category: 
British Columbia
Social
Transportation
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B.C. agrees to defer old-growth logging for 2 years in Fairy Creek and central Walbran areas

11/06/21
Author: 
Camille Bains
Link: 
CBC News

Jun 09, 2021

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Category: 
British Columbia
Climate Change
Ecology/Environment
Forestry
Indigenous Peoples
Protest - Revolt
Social
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Right to Live Without a Blockade

11/06/21
Author: 
Oxfam
Link: 
Oxfam
Right to Live Without a Blockade

The impact of US sanctions on the Cuban population and women's lives

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Category: 
Global
Social
USA
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Ontario Govt - Another Decade of Austerity

11/06/21
Author: 
Doug Allan
Link: 
The Bullet

 June 11, 2021 

Ontario’s Financial Accountability Office (FAO) reports that the nominal healthcare funding increases planned by the Doug Ford PC government between 2019-20 to 2029-30 fall well short of the nominal increases over the previous nine years (2010-11 to 2019-20, the period of public sector austerity that followed the last recession).

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Category: 
Canada
Labour - Unions
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Workers In Vale’s Sudbury Mines Are Right To Strike

11/06/21
Author: 
Adam D.K. King
Link: 
Passage

June 10, 2021

Vale's rhetoric of "south-south solidarity" is meaningless. Like all corporations, the company pursues profit above all else.

As of midnight on June 1, the members of United Steelworkers (USW) Local 6500 at Vale (formerly Inco) mines in Sudbury, Ont., are on strike. 

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Category: 
Canada
Capitalism
Labour - Unions
Social
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