British Columbia Government Ecocide & Genocide — November 2021

BC Environment & Climate Change -ENV.Minister@gov.bc.ca

BC Solicitor and Attorney Generals, BC Courts -PSSG.Minister@gov.bc.ca, AG.Minister@gov.bc.ca

Eby’s Actions in ‘Burn It All Down’ Conflict ‘Chilling,’ Says Walia | The Tyee

Police complaint commissioner report finds officer inflicted injuries on the rise – Goldstream News Gazette

Vancouver police officer caught drinking and driving sought ‘preferential treatment’ says complaint office | CTV News

Retired Saanich police officer retroactively dismissed for misconduct, OPCC report says | CTV News

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Police officers seen posing for photos with dead body have been suspended | CBC News

Fairy Creek Blockade – Posts | Facebook

Vaughn Palmer: B.C. must rethink foot-dragging reaction to emergencies | Vancouver Sun

B.C. emergency text alerts: Misinformation rampant as public safety minister downplays system’s utility | CTV News

Coquihalla drivers warned of ‘pooling water’ before washouts – Goldstream News Gazette

B.C. Public Safety Minister clarifies th…

Two journalists among 15 people arrested by RCMP near B.C. pipeline worksite

Les Leyne: NDP is overly defensive about its response to catastrophic flooding – Victoria Times Colonist

‘We Want Her Out of Jail Today.’ RCMP Slammed for Arresting Journalists | The Tyee

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Open letter: Amnesty International urges federal government, BC and RCMP to protect the rights of Wet’suwet’en land defenders – Amnesty International Canada

Private law: why the RCMP arrests Indigenous people and journalists on unceded Wet’suwet’en traditional territory | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

So not ready | Canada’s National Observer: News & Analysis

Arrests of media covering Indigenous rights are part of a continued effort to silence land defenders, legal experts say | The Star

Photojournalist released with conditions after arrest at pipeline dispute in B.C. – BC News – Castanet.net

Outrage after two journalists detained at Indigenous protest in Canada | Canada | The Guardian

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Wet’suwet’en supporters, B.C. pipeline and RCMP protesters block Edmonton’s High Level Bridge | Edmonton Journal

Trudeau, Horgan governments do nothing as RCMP arrest journalists | Ricochet

B.C. weather: Atmospheric rivers overlooked amid info gap | CTV News

Indigenous, Black people overrepresented in interactions with 5 B.C. police forces: report – Goldstream News Gazette

RCMP tracked photojournalist Amber Bracken in active investigations database

B.C. Human Rights Commissioner Kasari Govender issues 29 recommendations to reduce racism in policing | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

BC Human Rights Report Documents Racial Bias in Policing — and Suggests Solutions | The Tyee

B.C. Minister’s Claim He Cannot Weigh In On Wet’suwet’en Arrests Doesn’t Add Up, Critics Say

B.C. floods: First Nation chief critical of province’s response | CTV News

Systemic racism in policing across B.C. demands reform says Human Rights Commissioner – Goldstream News Gazette

‘We are not here to get killed’: armed police respond to Wet’suwet’en solidarity

What the B.C. government knew about the flood threat | Come hell… B.C. under water – YouTube

https://ricochet.media/en/3806/investigation-rcmp-misled-public-about-pepper-spray-incident-at-fairy-creek

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/11/03/Jailed-Wetsuweten-Chief-Friendly-Warning-Coastal-GasLink/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/1858044797731615

https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/climate-action-defunding-police-CIRG-RCMP-Fairy-Creek

https://www.timescolonist.com/bc-news/rcmp-leaders-say-system-undermines-their-efforts-to-improve-policing-in-indigenous-communities-4757352

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/11/17/Power-Peril-Injunctions/

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/maclean-kay-b-c-ndp-once-again-slow-and-stubborn-responding-to-a-weather-catastrophe

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/rcmp-deployed-to-wetsuweten-territory-in-response-to-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-blockade/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/969266907352429/

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-flooding-atmospheric-river/

https://globalnews.ca/video/8379201/major-flooding-raises-questions-about-b-c-s-warning-system/

https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/number-of-flood-risk-assessments-in-past-decade-or-more-what-has-been-done-about-them

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/11/19/Arrests-Pipeline/

https://cpj.org/2021/11/cpj-calls-on-canadian-police-to-release-detained-journalists/

https://www.cp24.com/news/rally-held-in-toronto-in-support-of-wet-suwet-en-hereditary-chiefs-1.5675357

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/11/18/news/climatedesk-canada-supports-pipeline-violation-wetsuweten-law-well-its-own?

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/protesters-block-pat-bay-highway-sunday-evening/

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/cost-of-fairy-creek-injunction-enforcement-more-than-3-7m-rcmp-document-shows-1.5675693

https://rabble.ca/indigenous/rcmp-arrest-wetsuweten-land-defenders-days-after-cop26-summit/

https://ricochet.media/en/3814/two-pipelines-stalled-in-bc-as-rcmp-raids-resume-in-wetsuweten-territory

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/11/21/toronto-demonstration-held-in-solidarity-with-wetsuweten-land-defenders-in-bc.html

https://www.yintahaccess.com/news/court%20date

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/11/19/BC-Floods-Who-Knew/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/british-columbia/article-warning-signs-bc-was-told-to-prepare-for-disaster/

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/11/22/news/shay-lynn-sampson-life-force-pipe-filled-poison

https://fb.watch/9s3RqM1Kie/

https://pressprogress.ca/bc-rcmp-says-it-deployed-snipers-and-assault-teams-against-unarmed-indigenous-land-defenders-because-it-was-more-practicable/

https://rabble.ca/environment/did-rcmp-stage-wetsuweten-raid-at-coastal-gaslink-camp/

https://ricochet.media/en/3815/open-letter-media-calls-on-trudeau-government-to-halt-rcmp-violations-of-press-freedom

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/gidimten-checkpoint-spokesperson-hereditary-chiefs-daughter-among-those-arrested-on-weekend/

https://www.ran.org/press-releases/statement-from-rainforest-action-network-in-solidarity-with-wetsuweten-leadership/

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/11/24/Punishment-Pipeline-Protesters-Not-For-Pipeline-Firms/

https://www.theenergymix.com/2021/11/23/b-c-flood-devastation-linked-to-logging-practices-without-question-experts-warn/

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/24/canadian_police_raid_on_indigenous_pipeline

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/972229493722837/

https://breachmedia.ca/horgans-ndp-suppressing-a-party-debate-on-lng-industry-insiders-say/

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/forests/110/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UdeL20dL5A

https://www.straight.com/news/can-bcs-human-rights-commissioner-convince-five-white-men-at-centre-of-power-to-embrace-real

https://rabble.ca/indigenous/state-violence-against-the-wetsuweten-and-apparent-police-and-industry-collusion/

https://www.theenergymix.com/2021/11/25/lng-canada-on-track-to-become-financial-albatross-analysts-warn/

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/les-leyne-ndp-cuts-off-debate-on-major-legislation-contradicting-calls-for-scrutiny-when-it-was-in-opposition-4796505

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/11/25/Cost-Of-Waiting/

https://www.straight.com/news/john-price-fragile-lies-of-a-settler-government

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/injunction-wet-suwet-en-indigenous-law-1.6262941

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/indigenous-b-c-man-alleges-racial-profiling-and-rcmp-violence-in-mistaken-arrest-1.6264562

British Columbia & Premier -Premier@gov.bc.ca

Nearly 600 British Columbians died from extreme heat this summer: BC Coroners Service

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Comment: Earth to Horgan — climate action means taking on fossil fuels – Victoria Times Colonist

Les Leyne: Final touch on a bait and switch for funding political parties – Victoria Times Colonist

B.C. overdose crisis: Record-breaking number of illicit drug overdoses in first 9 months of 2021 | CTV News

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As Warming and Drought Increase, A New Case for Ending Big Dams – Yale E360

The B.C. NDP is asleep at the wheel of the climate emergency. Here’s why – rabble.ca

Maclean Kay: Whether flood, fire or COVID, the B.C. NDP is slow to react to catastrophe | National Post

Major flooding raises questions about B.C.’s warning system | Watch News Videos Online

Scientists have been issuing climate warnings for decades | Vancouver Sun

David Suzuki says pipelines will be ‘blown up’ if leaders don’t act on climate change

Protesters blocking major Guelph intersection (Update: now clear) – Guelph News

Expert Warnings of a Flood Like This Go Back 20 Years | The Tyee

Rally held in Toronto in support of Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs | CP24.com

Who Knew? | The Tyee

B.C. floods: The province had been warned natural disasters would hit more often, and it was not prepared – The Globe and Mail

Horgan’s NDP “suppressing” a party debate on LNG industry, insiders say ⋆ The Breach

Les Leyne: NDP cuts off debate on major legislation, contradicting calls for scrutiny when it was in opposition – Victoria Times Colonist

Bill 22 Is a Sign of Democratic Backsliding in BC | The Tyee

Atmospheric Rivers Continue to Flood Pacific Northwest

Over 60 per cent of B.C. opposes NDP efforts to charge for information | Vancouver Sun

Coal provinces co-ordinated fight against federal water pollution rules

B.C. sets $10 fee for non-personal public information requests – Goldstream News Gazette

B.C. NDP government imposes $10 fee on freedom-of-information requests | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

Vaughn Palmer: B.C.’s minister of misinformation strikes again | Vancouver Sun

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-climate-change-missed-targets-1.6230965

https://ricochet.media/en/3806/investigation-rcmp-misled-public-about-pepper-spray-incident-at-fairy-creek

https://www.facebook.com/wildernesscommittee/videos/1208976716260530

https://thenarwhal.ca/blueberry-river-explainer-indigenous-rights-and-indigenous-rights/

https://www.straight.com/news/cop26-spare-me-sophistry-of-justin-trudeau-on-canadas-plan-to-cut-emissions

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/11/03/Jailed-Wetsuweten-Chief-Friendly-Warning-Coastal-GasLink/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/1858044797731615

https://www.theenergymix.com/2021/11/03/gabon-sets-new-forest-preservation-paradigm-while-british-columbia-delays-protections/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FqXTCvDLeo

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/fossil-fuels-cop26-extraction-1.6238403

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-wins-award-climate-conference-cop26-1.6240712

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/surging-wood-pellet-industry-threatens-climate-say-experts/

https://www.theenergymix.com/2021/11/09/gas-is-the-new-coal-with-no-role-on-path-to-1-5c-study-says/

https://raventrust.com/campaigns/gitxaala/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=255084066646932&set=a.211640637657942

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-doctor-makes-international-headlines-for-climate-change-diagnosis-1.5662907

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10158368729752611&set=a.44115252610

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/10/indigenous-women-speak-out-at-cop26-rally-femicide-is-linked-to-ecocide

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/11/12/Protecting-Some-Old-Growth-Not-Enough-Forest-Revolution/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/when-will-steel-go-green-1.6244485

https://www.facebook.com/rollingjusticebus/photos/a.1634627923419346/2977891532426305/

https://www.facebook.com/GeorgiaStraitBC/photos/a.307275369305725/4865429530156930/

https://breachmedia.ca/on-the-war-trail-with-the-wetsuweten/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/966429314302855/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=260331336118923&set=a.238088301676560

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/b-c-first-nation-evicts-coastal-gaslink-from-wetsuweten-territory/

https://www.timescolonist.com/bc-news/rcmp-leaders-say-system-undermines-their-efforts-to-improve-policing-in-indigenous-communities-4757352

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/16/canada-floods-fires-logging-british-columbia

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/11/09/hundreds-groups-reject-greenwashing-destructive-hydropower-industry-cop26

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-floods-clearcut-logging/

https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/vaughn-palmer-b-c-must-rethink-foot-dragging-reaction-to-emergencies

https://thenarwhal.ca/gidimten-eviction-coastal-gaslink/

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/rcmp-deployed-to-wetsuweten-territory-in-response-to-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-blockade/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/969266907352429/

https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-flooding-atmospheric-river/

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/11/19/Arrests-Pipeline/

https://www.macleans.ca/society/environment/the-b-c-floods-are-a-mere-hint-of-what-climate-change-could-do-to-the-food-supply/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/nov/17/pacific-north-west-flooding-british-columbia-washington-state-canada

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/forests/110/

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/les-leyne-ndp-defensive-about-its-response-to-catastrophic-flooding-4779992

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/11/20/Arrests-in-Wetsuweten/

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=311370270988243&set=pcb.311370400988230

https://www.facebook.com/sonia4cowichan/posts/313950143882772

https://amnesty.ca/news/open-letter-amnesty-international-urges-federal-government-bc-and-rcmp-to-protect-the-rights-of-wetsuweten-land-defenders/

https://www.facebook.com/commonsbc/photos/a.435952773145615/6468164779924354/

https://www.straight.com/news/private-law-why-rcmp-arrests-indigenous-people-and-journalists-on-unceded-wetsuweten

https://cpj.org/2021/11/cpj-calls-on-canadian-police-to-release-detained-journalists/

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/protesters-block-pat-bay-highway-sunday-evening/

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/cost-of-fairy-creek-injunction-enforcement-more-than-3-7m-rcmp-document-shows-1.5675693

https://rabble.ca/indigenous/rcmp-arrest-wetsuweten-land-defenders-days-after-cop26-summit/

https://ricochet.media/en/3814/two-pipelines-stalled-in-bc-as-rcmp-raids-resume-in-wetsuweten-territory

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/reform-the-logging-industry-to-slow-climate-crises-in-b-c-expert-says-1.5676113

https://www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/zero-carbon/2021/11/19/so-not-ready

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2021/11/21/toronto-demonstration-held-in-solidarity-with-wetsuweten-land-defenders-in-bc.html

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2021/11/21/arrests-of-media-covering-indigenous-rights-are-part-of-a-continued-effort-to-silence-land-defenders-legal-experts-say.html

https://www.yintahaccess.com/news/court%20date

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/pipeline-protest-arrest-investigation-1.6257852

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/11/22/news/shay-lynn-sampson-life-force-pipe-filled-poison

https://fb.watch/9s3RqM1Kie/

https://edmontonjournal.com/news/local-news/wetsuweten-supporters-b-c-pipeline-and-rcmp-protesters-block-edmontons-high-level-bridge

https://pressprogress.ca/bc-rcmp-says-it-deployed-snipers-and-assault-teams-against-unarmed-indigenous-land-defenders-because-it-was-more-practicable/

https://rabble.ca/environment/did-rcmp-stage-wetsuweten-raid-at-coastal-gaslink-camp/

https://ricochet.media/en/3815/open-letter-media-calls-on-trudeau-government-to-halt-rcmp-violations-of-press-freedom

https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/gidimten-checkpoint-spokesperson-hereditary-chiefs-daughter-among-those-arrested-on-weekend/

https://www.ran.org/press-releases/statement-from-rainforest-action-network-in-solidarity-with-wetsuweten-leadership/

https://ricochet.media/en/3816/trudeau-horgan-governments-do-nothing-as-rcmp-arrest-journalists

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/atmospheric-rivers-overlooked-by-b-c-agencies-amid-information-gap-1.5678803

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/11/24/Punishment-Pipeline-Protesters-Not-For-Pipeline-Firms/

https://rabble.ca/environment/the-terrible-paradox-of-the-green-energy-transition/

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/indigenous-black-people-overrepresented-in-interactions-with-5-b-c-police-forces-report/

https://www.theenergymix.com/2021/11/23/b-c-flood-devastation-linked-to-logging-practices-without-question-experts-warn/

https://thenarwhal.ca/rcmp-coastal-gaslink-journalists-tracking/

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/11/24/canadian_police_raid_on_indigenous_pipeline

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/972229493722837/

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/forests/110/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UdeL20dL5A

https://rabble.ca/indigenous/state-violence-against-the-wetsuweten-and-apparent-police-and-industry-collusion/

https://www.theenergymix.com/2021/11/25/lng-canada-on-track-to-become-financial-albatross-analysts-warn/

https://theprovince.com/opinion/david-hughes-lng-exports-will-doom-b-c-s-emissions-reduction-goals

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/11/25/Cost-Of-Waiting/

https://thenarwhal.ca/wetsuweten-rcmp-solidarity-gitxsan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ktS3Ex4TU

https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/les-leyne-fix-was-in-early-on-freedom-of-information-bill-say-critics-4805036

https://www.straight.com/news/john-price-fragile-lies-of-a-settler-government

https://www.straight.com/news/aaron-hill-impacts-of-bc-floods-on-wild-salmon

https://www.ecowatch.com/atmospheric-rivers-flooding-pacific-northwest-2655880707.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/murray-rankin-wetsuweten-cgl-pipeline-1.6265006

https://www.corporatemapping.ca/lng-emissions/

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/we-need-law-protect-biodiversity-and-species-risk

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British Columbia Government Ecocide & Genocide — November 2021

BC Environment & Climate Change -ENV.Minister@gov.bc.ca

BC Energy, Mines Petroleum Resources -EMPR.Minister@gov.bc.ca

BC Forests, Lands & Natural Resources -FLNR.Minister@gov.bc.ca

BC Ministry of Health -HLTH.Health@gov.bc.ca

BC Indigenous Relations -IRR.Minister@gov.bc.ca

BC Ministry of Children & Families -mcf.info@gov.bc.ca

BC Agriculture, Food and Fisheries -AGR.Minister@gov.bc.ca

BC Solicitor and Attorney Generals, BC Courts -PSSG.Minister@gov.bc.ca, AG.Minister@gov.bc.ca

British Columbia & Premier -Premier@gov.bc.ca