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Forest protection should be a high priority at COP15

14/12/22

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Rob Miller

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We know these ancient forests are worth more standing. We understand the consequences of losing them. There is a sense of urgency for change. We need binding agreements from international negotiations like COP15. Photo via Flickr

Dec. 14, 2022

During Biodiversity Day at COP27, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault committed $855,000 to ensure non-profit environmental groups and Indigenous partners can participate at COP15, the UN biodiversity conference in Montreal. This funding levels the playing field as industries increasingly send their paid representatives to participate in the negotiations.

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B.C.’s new Premier David Eby hits the ground running

13/12/22

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Seth Klein

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National Observer

But what early climate signals can be found in B.C. Premier David Eby's new cabinet and their mandate letters? asks Seth Klein. Photo via Province of British Columbia/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Dec. 13, 2022

The past few years have hit most British Columbians hard — from COVID-19 to floods and fires to the escalating cost of living. The new premier has hit the ground running, delivering an ambitious string of initiatives in his first weeks.

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A Groundbreaking Indigenous Rights Decision, 25 Years Later

12/12/22

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Amanda Follett Hosgood

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The Tyee

Many of those who fought the historic Deglamuukw-Gisday’wa gathered in the Wet’suwet’en community of Witset on Friday to celebrate. ‘We’ve got to get back to the original vision of our Chiefs and leaders and people who brought us there,’ says Wet’suwet’en Dinize Satsan, Herb George. Photo by Olivia Leigh Nowak.

Dec. 11, 2022

The Delgamuukw-Gisday’wa case had impact around the world. What has it done for the nations who fought it?

It was sometime after midnight on a winter night in 1988 that Simogyet (Chief) Neekt took his farm tractor and dragged a log across the Kispiox Valley Road.

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Luisa Cáceres: Commune-Building in Urban Venezuela

12/12/22

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Chris Gilbert

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Monthly Review

Luisa Cáceres communards assembled beside communal mural. (Photo: Gerardo Rojas/Voces Urgentes)

Dec 01, 2022

Chris Gilbert is a professor of political science at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, and the creator and co-host of the Marxist educational television program Escuela de Cuadros. This article is adapted from his upcoming book, Commune or Nothing!: Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project (Monthly Review Press, 2023).

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Sorry, Pierre — Trudeau’s pandemic spending was a success

12/12/22

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Max Fawcett

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National Observer

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to reporters outside Rideau Cottage on March 18, 2020. File photo by Kamara Morozuk

Website editor: Too bad when he cut his beard he also went back to business as usual and austerity for the working classes :(

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‘People are going to experience frostbite, people are going to have more amputations’

12/12/22

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Nazanin Meshkat

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National Observer

Lynn Walker, 63, cleans up around her home in a homeless encampment in Allan Gardens park in Toronto on Dec. 1, 2022. Photo by Ian Willms for Canada's National Observer

Dec. 12, 2022

When unhoused people in Toronto run out of options, they turn to the city’s overcrowded emergency departments for shelter.

The result is a collision of two crises, emergency department overcrowding and homelessness, that will risk lives, physicians, social workers and advocates for unhoused people say.

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Let Her Stay, BC Health Minister Tells Ottawa

09/12/22

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Moira Wyton

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The Tyee

Claudia Zamorano, her husband and daughter face deportation on Dec. 19 after their refugee claim was denied. Photo supplied.

Nov. 11, 2022

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix is calling on Ottawa to stop the impending deportation of a New Westminster health-care worker and her family to Mexico.

Hospital housekeeper Claudia Zamorano, her husband, nine-year-old daughter, and her husband’s mother and brother fled from threats of violence in their home city of Colima in 2017, but their refugee claim has been denied.

Zamorano works full time at Royal Columbian Hospital and her husband, Andres, is a carpenter.

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Assessing The B.C. Municipal Elections

07/12/22

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unmasktheright

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unmasktheright

Nov.22, 2022

The October 15 municipal elections saw an unprecedented number of far right candidates fielded in the races for mayor, council and school board positions across the province. A minimum of 129 candidates were provably and publicly aligned with antivaxx, conspiracist, antisemitic or other far right ideologies in one form or another. (This is an underestimate of the total of far right candidates, possibly a significant understatement.)

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RBC's bid to buy HSBC Canada reveals a new front in the climate fight

07/12/22

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John Woodside

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National Observer

Dec. 6. 2022

A new front in the fight against climate change is emerging as Canada’s largest bank and top fossil fuel financier, RBC, plans to buy the Canadian arm of one of Europe’s top fossil fuel-financing banks, HSBC.

The proposed deal would see RBC buy HSBC Canada, a subsidiary of the London-headquartered bank HSBC, for $13.5 billion. If the deal goes through, it would mean adding $134 billion worth of assets to RBC’s books, along with more than 130 branches in Canada and over 4,000 employees.

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‘It’s Like They’re Trying to Discard Us’

06/12/22

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Jen St. Denis

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The Tyee

The number of tents on E. Hastings Street often impedes access to doorways and the sidewalk, leading to conflict in the neighbourhood. Photo for The Tyee by Jen St. Denis.

Dec. 5, 2022

People who are homeless on Vancouver’s East Hastings Street continue to have tents and other belongings removed by city workers, a situation advocates say is leaving some without shelter as temperatures drop.

PHS Community Services Society, an agency that runs permanent and emergency winter shelters and other housing, says space is extremely tight right now, with people turned away every night from two shelters the organization runs in the Downtown Eastside.

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