British Columbia Government Genocide & Ecocide — September 2021

BC Environment & Climate Change

We Backed BC’s Climate Plan. Now We See It’s Not Enough | The Tyee

‘Unforgivable’: Average of 2.4 black bears killed daily by B.C. conservation officers in August | CTV News

Teal Jones has begun logging in area with confirmed endangered marbled murrelet sightings | Wilderness Committee

Rock slides that shook Squamish linked to climate change, expert says | CBC News

Vancouver opposes Tilbury LNG expansion – New West Record

‘Food-conditioned’ bear killed by conservation in North Vancouver was ‘peaceful and trusting,’ society says | CTV News

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/old-growth-forests-of-pacific-northwest-could-be-key-to-climate-action/

https://in-sights.ca/2021/09/02/truth-in-labeling/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/posts/918414982437622

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/916252045987249/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-bc-ndp-government-under-fire-for-environmental-record-from-new/

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/commentary/64/

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/09/07/Climate-Crisis-Prescription-From-Medical-Journals/

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/permanently-protect-argonaut-creek

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/victoria-demonstrators-call-out-governments-for-not-treating-climate-change-as-a-crisis/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/09/earths-tipping-points-closer-current-climate-plans-wont-work-global-heating

https://globalnews.ca/news/8172709/she-will-show-no-mercy-indigenous-leaders-present-to-climate-committee/

https://www.raincoast.org/2021/09/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-the-wolf-as-scapegoat/

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2021/09/09/West-Coast-Doctors-Join-Call-No-More-Fossil-Fuels/

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/wildsight-hosts-webinar-highlighting-loggings-impact-on-climate-change-risk/

https://www.straight.com/news/helen-boyd-and-melissa-lem-fairy-creek-land-protectors-must-be-protected

https://www.bearstudy.org/updates/daily-updates/4421-houston-we-have-a-problem-update-september-24-2021.html

https://thenarwhal.ca/gitanyow-ipca-bc-government/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/181320900794515

https://in-sights.ca/2021/09/26/northeast-bc-a-sacrifice-zone/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/935937150685405/

https://www.stand.earth/latest/Canada-climate-energy/lng-and-fracking-bc/200-organizations-call-urgent-provincial-action

BC Energy, Mines Petroleum Resources

Dear John | Facebook

Stuck in the 20th century – In-Sights

2030 is the new 2050 – In-Sights

No Bailout To LNG Canada and Coastal GasLink | New Mode

West Coast Doctors Join the Call: No More Fossil Fuels | The Tyee

Many of B.C.’s 1,900 dams not adequately regulated, auditor finds – Goldstream News Gazette

Done waiting on B.C., Gitanyow declare new protected area: ‘this is all our land’

Unist’ot’en Land Defender Wins International Advocacy Award | The Tyee

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/09/03/Wiping-Us-Off-Territory/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/posts/918414982437622

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/916252045987249/

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-bc-ndp-government-under-fire-for-environmental-record-from-new/

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/commentary/64/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/09/earths-tipping-points-closer-current-climate-plans-wont-work-global-heating

https://thenarwhal.ca/enbridge-explosion-lheidli-tenneh-first-nation/

https://www.netnewsledger.com/2021/09/23/coastal-gaslink-destroys-archeological-site-on-cas-yikh-territory/

https://in-sights.ca/2021/09/26/northeast-bc-a-sacrifice-zone/

https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-canada-national-day-truth-reconciliation/

https://in-sights.ca/2021/09/29/lotus-land-turned-to-la-la-land/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/935937150685405/

BC Forests, Lands & Natural Resources

Old-growth forests of Pacific Northwest could be key to climate action

Travellers to Haida Gwaii must now pledge to treat the land and its people with respect – The Globe and Mail

There’s an urgent need to reduce BC’s logging industry – Forests – Focus on Victoria

Local business owner faces consequences of herbicide spraying activity – My Prince George Now

B.C. government facing backlash over decision to euthanize up to 35 Stanley Park coyotes | CTV News

Stanley Park coyote cull is result of human mismanagement: lawyer

Permanently protect Argonaut Creek | Wilderness Committee

Update on Stanley Park coyote cull: ‘Relocation not an option’ after 45 attacks, 5 on children | CTV News

Anti-logging protest becomes Canada’s biggest ever act of civil disobedience | Canada | The Guardian

Nearly 30 years after the original ‘war in the woods’ — what’s changed?

ICA’s Statement on Fairy Creek Raids — Indigenous Climate Action

One year after release of Old Growth Strategic Review Report, BC NDP failure to act leads to largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history – BC Green Party

CUPW – 2021-09-07 – STATEMENT: STOP to the Clearcut Logging of Old-Growth Forests

Double standard: B.C. requires Indigenous consent for forest conservation but not logging | Ricochet

‘She will show no mercy’: Indigenous leaders present to climate committee – New Brunswick | Globalnews.ca

NGO report card: One year after B.C. promised action, logging continues in almost all at-risk old-growth forests | Wilderness Committee

20 First Nations denounce engagement process on modernization of forest policy in BC – Wood Business

‘Disrespectful’: B.C. First Nations blast NDP’s forest renewal effort – Goldstream News Gazette

* Cascadia Webinar 9-9-2021 James Steidle “War on Deciduous Trees” – YouTube

OAGBC_Oversight-of-Dam-Safety_RPT.pdf

B.C. auditor general warns province had 87 high-risk dams in 2020

Fairy Creek: Indigenous-Led Blockade of Old-Growth Logging Is Now Canada’s Largest Civil Disobedience | Democracy Now!

Several endangered bird species spotted at Fairy Creek | Cortes Radio

Fairy Creek logging: A microcosm of species decline | Wilderness Committee

Ahousaht Guardians look to watershed restoration amid B.C. drought | The Narwhal

Time to protect old-growth forests | Wilderness Committee

NetNewsLedger – COASTAL GASLINK DESTROYS ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE ON CAS YIKH TERRITORY

Jane Goodall launches effort in support of planting 1 trillion trees by 2030

Wildsight hosts webinar highlighting logging’s impact on climate change risk – Goldstream News Gazette

Letters to the editor, Sept. 21, 2021 | Letters To Editor | kelownadailycourier.ca

The Most Cost-Effective Climate Solution Available: Keep Forests Where They Are | Earthjustice

Dead Forests Are Dangerous for the Planet — Here’s Why

B.C. fails to meet timeline for more old-growth forest protection

Judge denies application to extend injunction against protests at Fairy Creek | CBC News

Forestry management needs to change in B.C. says Tahltan Nation member

No road building and logging in Argonaut Creek | Wilderness Committee

Old growth logging protesters dig in as company prepares to appeal court’s injunction denial | CBC News

https://rabble.ca/news/2021/09/human-cost-defending-forests-adaitsx-fairy-creek

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-bc-ndp-government-under-fire-for-environmental-record-from-new/

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/commentary/64/

https://www.raincoast.org/2021/09/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-the-wolf-as-scapegoat/

https://thenarwhal.ca/enbridge-explosion-lheidli-tenneh-first-nation/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/273003457081424/permalink/463634828018285

https://www.facebook.com/groups/273003457081424/posts/465158687865899/?comment_id=465171154531319

https://www.straight.com/news/helen-boyd-and-melissa-lem-fairy-creek-land-protectors-must-be-protected

https://www.bearstudy.org/updates/daily-updates/4421-houston-we-have-a-problem-update-september-24-2021.html

https://thenarwhal.ca/gitanyow-ipca-bc-government/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/181320900794515

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/09/27/Someone-Going-To-Be-Injured-Killed/

https://in-sights.ca/2021/09/26/northeast-bc-a-sacrifice-zone/

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/09/28/infrastructure-and-budget-bills-contain-very-bad-logging-provisions-which-will-make-climate-change-worse%e2%80%a8/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-fairy-creek-court-civil-liberties-injunction-1.6192827

https://www.straight.com/news/bc-judge-wont-extend-fairy-creek-injunction-because-rcmp-conduct-sullies-reputation-of-court

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/09/29/Judge-Ends-Fairy-Creek-Injunction/

https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-canada-national-day-truth-reconciliation/

http://adamolsen.ca/2021/09/injunction-denied-courts-should-not-be-at-the-centre-of-forestry-politics/

BC Ministry of Health

A public health approach to the overdose crisis

B.C.’s schools have fewer COVID-19 safety measures in place than last year, says union | Globalnews.ca

University of Colorado prof sharpens criticism of B.C. government view on factors driving COVID-19 transmission | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly

86-year-old patient left on stretcher for three days in waiting room at B.C. hospital | CTV News

‘They couldn’t get help’: Parksville man dies waiting on 911, on hold for 30 minutes

Victoria mom with COVID angry after son tests positive first week of school

B.C. nurses’ union ‘cannot support’ COVID vaccine mandate that could mean fewer staff – Goldstream News Gazette

Greater Victoria nurses rally at premier’s Langford office demanding end to staffing shortage | CTV News

Victoria hospitals see influx of COVID-19 patients | CTV News

As ICUs reach critical levels in B.C.’s north, patients are being moved to other regions | Globalnews.ca

B.C. parents crowdsourcing COVID-19 school exposures in lieu of provincial information – Goldstream News Gazette

Secrecy over B.C.’s true number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients | CTV News

Parksville mayor jabs Island Health for needle issue inaction – Goldstream News Gazette

B.C. health officials mum as controversy mounts over ‘anti-democratic’ reporting policy | CTV News

BC health officials double down on their choice to omit certain COVID-19 data

COVID-19 in B.C.: Hospitalization data released after public pressure | CTV News

Northeast BC — a sacrifice zone – In-Sights

Vancouver Island Health confirms outbreak of COVID among Victoria community of those facing homelessness – Goldstream News Gazette

911 issues: Long wait to get ambulance for bleeding B.C. boy | CTV News

July ties dubious record for drug deaths in B.C., as overdose crisis continues

184 people died of illicit drug overdoses in July in B.C.’s 2nd deadliest month on record – Goldstream News Gazette

‘Blindly going forward’: Urgent call for more COVID-19 testing as B.C. sees waits of hours or days | CTV News

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/commentary/64/

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/vancouver-island-police-confirm-province-cutting-funds-for-officer-naloxone-kits-1.5596254

BC Indigenous Relations

‘If They Destroy This, They’re Wiping Us off This Territory’ | The Tyee

Gidimt’en Checkpoint – Posts | Facebook

Lheidli T’enneh First Nation wants Enbridge off territory after 2018 explosion

Dear John | Facebook

‘It’s amazing’: Chinook salmon are returning in surprising numbers to Cowichan River

On National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, Canadians need to remember

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/commentary/64/

https://www.indigenousclimateaction.com/entries/icas-statement-on-fairy-creek-raids

https://act.newmode.net/action/no-bailout-lng-canada/no-bailout-lng-canada-and-coastal-gaslink

https://www.netnewsledger.com/2021/09/23/coastal-gaslink-destroys-archeological-site-on-cas-yikh-territory/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/931653157780471/

https://thenarwhal.ca/gitanyow-ipca-bc-government/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/181320900794515

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-fairy-creek-court-civil-liberties-injunction-1.6192827

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/09/29/Unistoten-Land-Defender-Wins-International-Advocacy-Award/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/935937150685405/

BC Agriculture, Food and Fisheries

B.C. SPCA to conduct random farm inspections – BC Local News

https://thenarwhal.ca/grieg-seafood-bc-salmon/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/posts/918414982437622

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/916252045987249/

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/commentary/64/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/273003457081424/posts/465158687865899/?comment_id=465171154531319

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/b-c-chicken-catching-company-pleads-guilty-to-animal-abuse/

BC Solicitor and Attorney Generals, BC Courts

The human cost of defending forests at Ada’itsx Fairy Creek | rabble.ca

Mounties face online harassment from ‘globally well-funded’ Fairy Creek protesters, police union says | CTV News

Taking care of business… – In-Sights

Vancouver Island police confirm province cutting funds for officer naloxone kits | CTV News

Bombshell Decision: Judge Ends Fairy Creek Injunction | The Tyee

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/commentary/64/

https://www.straight.com/news/helen-boyd-and-melissa-lem-fairy-creek-land-protectors-must-be-protected

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/09/27/Someone-Going-To-Be-Injured-Killed/

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/vancouver-island-health-confirms-outbreak-of-covid-among-victoria-community-of-those-facing-homelessness/

https://www.canadaland.com/fairy-creek-shows-limits-of-checks-on-rcmp-power/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-fairy-creek-court-civil-liberties-injunction-1.6192827

https://www.straight.com/news/bc-judge-wont-extend-fairy-creek-injunction-because-rcmp-conduct-sullies-reputation-of-court

http://adamolsen.ca/2021/09/injunction-denied-courts-should-not-be-at-the-centre-of-forestry-politics/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/935937150685405/

British Columbia & Premier

B.C. NDP government under fire for environmental record from New Democratic federal election candidate – The Globe and Mail

NDP MLAs missing in action – Commentary – Focus on Victoria

B.C. too unprepared for heat dome weather – North Shore News

Lotus Land turned to La La land – In-Sights

Injunction denied! Courts should not be at the centre of forestry politics – Adam Olsen. MLA for Saanich North and the Islands

200 organizations call for urgent provincial action to confront the climate emergency | Stand.earth

Merck’s COVID-19 pill — cutting risk of death in half — hailed as ‘game changing’ | National Post

https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/old-growth-forests-of-pacific-northwest-could-be-key-to-climate-action/

https://rabble.ca/news/2021/09/human-cost-defending-forests-adaitsx-fairy-creek

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/article-travellers-to-haida-gwaii-must-now-pledge-to-treat-the-land-and-its/

https://www.reelectpaulmanly.ca/post/health-approach-overdose

https://www.focusonvictoria.ca/forests/94/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/273003457081424/permalink/454669385581496

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/09/03/Wiping-Us-Off-Territory/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/posts/918414982437622

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/916252045987249/

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2021/09/06/BC-Climate-Plan-Now-Not-Enough/

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2021/09/07/Climate-Crisis-Prescription-From-Medical-Journals/

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/victoria-demonstrators-call-out-governments-for-not-treating-climate-change-as-a-crisis/

https://in-sights.ca/2021/09/08/stuck-in-the-20th-century/

https://in-sights.ca/2021/09/07/2030-is-the-new-2050/

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/sep/08/canada-logging-protest-vancouver-island

https://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-tofino-bc-war-in-the-woods

https://www.indigenousclimateaction.com/entries/icas-statement-on-fairy-creek-raids

https://www.bcgreens.ca/one_year_after_release_of_old_growth_strategic_review_report_bc_ndp_failure_to_act_leads_to_largest_act_of_civil_disobedience_in_canadian_history

https://www.cupw.ca/en/statement-stop-clearcut-logging-old-growth-forests

https://ricochet.media/en/3769/double-standard-bc-requires-indigenous-consent-for-forest-conservation-but-not-logging

https://www.facebook.com/Olsen4MLA/photos/a.3349178408448061/4688883587810863

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/09/earths-tipping-points-closer-current-climate-plans-wont-work-global-heating

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/ngo-report-card-one-year-after-bc-promised-action-logging-continues-almost-all-risk-old-growth

https://www.woodbusiness.ca/20-first-nations-denounce-engagement-process-on-modernization-of-forest-policy-in-bc/

https://act.newmode.net/action/no-bailout-lng-canada/no-bailout-lng-canada-and-coastal-gaslink

https://www.raincoast.org/2021/09/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-the-wolf-as-scapegoat/

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2021/09/09/West-Coast-Doctors-Join-Call-No-More-Fossil-Fuels/

https://www.democracynow.org/2021/9/14/fairy_creek_blockade_bc_canada

https://www.treehugger.com/harvard-moves-divest-fossil-fuels-5201559

https://thenarwhal.ca/enbridge-explosion-lheidli-tenneh-first-nation/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/273003457081424/permalink/463634828018285

https://in-sights.ca/2021/09/18/taking-care-of-business/

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/publications/time-protect-old-growth-forests

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/stawamus-chief-rock-slides-webcam-climate-change-rain-heat-granite-rock-fall-1.6184534

https://www.newwestrecord.ca/highlights/vancouver-latest-city-to-oppose-expansion-of-major-bc-lng-plant-4360287

https://www.netnewsledger.com/2021/09/23/coastal-gaslink-destroys-archeological-site-on-cas-yikh-territory/

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/wildsight-hosts-webinar-highlighting-loggings-impact-on-climate-change-risk/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/photos/a.212802696332191/931653157780471/

https://www.straight.com/news/helen-boyd-and-melissa-lem-fairy-creek-land-protectors-must-be-protected

https://thenarwhal.ca/gitanyow-ipca-bc-government/

https://www.facebook.com/wetsuwetenstrong/videos/181320900794515

https://in-sights.ca/2021/09/26/northeast-bc-a-sacrifice-zone/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-fairy-creek-court-civil-liberties-injunction-1.6192827

https://www.cheknews.ca/july-ties-dubious-record-for-drug-deaths-in-b-c-as-overdose-crisis-continues-891631/

https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/184-people-died-of-illicit-drug-overdoses-in-july-in-b-c-s-2nd-deadliest-month-on-record/

https://www.straight.com/news/bc-judge-wont-extend-fairy-creek-injunction-because-rcmp-conduct-sullies-reputation-of-court

https://thetyee.ca/News/2021/09/29/Unistoten-Land-Defender-Wins-International-Advocacy-Award/

https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/no-road-building-and-logging-argonaut-creek

https://thenarwhal.ca/opinion-canada-national-day-truth-reconciliation/