BC Environment & Climate Change –ENV.Minister@gov.bc.ca
Comment: Canada’s and B.C.’s climate plans don’t meet the moment – Victoria Times Colonist
B.C. says its climate plan is world leading. So why are emissions going in the wrong direction? | CBC News
‘Polluter pays’ the goal of B.C.’s industrial performance bond – Vancouver Island Free Daily
Why British Columbia is especially vulnerable to the effects of a climate breakdown | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
Status quo bias and climate destruction – IN-SIGHTS
Support a full ban on rodenticides in B.C. – Vancouver Humane Society
Illegal Canadian trash keeps ending up overseas. And the federal government won’t say who’s shipping it | CBC News
Trevor Hancock: B.C. government’s LNG infatuation makes it dangerously radical – Victoria Times Colonist
NDP cabinet minister George Heyman shares his thoughts with supporters of hunger striker Howard Breen | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
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https://www.straight.com/news/david-suzuki-will-world-again-hit-snooze-on-latest-climate-alarm
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heat-resiliency-cities-ted-2022-1.6418765
https://www.straight.com/news/john-horgans-ndp-government-rolls-dice-by-refusing-public-meeting-with-hunger-strikers-about
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fracking-lng-northeast-bc-impact-1.6426927
https://www.cheknews.ca/environmental-groups-first-nations-call-for-protection-of-bear-dens-across-b-c-1017467/
https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comment-its-time-for-bcas-own-species-at-risk-law-we-need-convince-the-premier-5308266
BC Energy, Mines Petroleum Resources –EMPR.Minister@gov.bc.ca
Calgary researchers say there may be a link between fracking and premature births | CBC News
Prosecutors asked to consider criminal contempt charges for Coastal GasLink protesters | CBC News
Conservation groups allege B.C. Hydro is not allocating enough funding to habitat restoration at its dams – Victoria Times Colonist
The Coming Indigenous Power Play | The Tyee
Rolling Justice Bus – Posts | Facebook
Site C went beyond halfway mark without fraud assessment – Victoria Times Colonist
Fracking promises prosperity — but what if it’s happening in your front yard? | CBC News
No fracking in British Columbia | Wilderness Committee
https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/pilings-pandemic-push-up-unexpected-costs-for-b-c-s-site-c-dam/
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-climate-emissions-ipcc-1.6410443
https://www.straight.com/news/curiosity-and-an-open-mind-can-help-us-slay-some-of-worst-effects-of-covid-19-in-bc
https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/business/polluter-pays-the-goal-of-b-c-s-industrial-performance-bond/
https://in-sights.ca/2022/04/16/status-quo-bias-and-climate-destruction/
https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/04/19/Their-Land-Was-Drowned-By-A-Flood-Of-Hydropower/
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/04/21/DRIPA-Terra-Nullius/?
https://vimeo.com/677019149/e59e120d35
https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/trevor-hancock-bc-governments-lng-infatuation-makes-it-dangerously-radical-5294434
BC Forests, Lands & Natural Resources –FOR.Minister@gov.bc.ca
Wood-Pellet Manufacturing in a Rainforest – CounterPunch.org
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Paradigm shift in timber harvesting long overdue: Ecologist speaks at UBCO – Vernon Morning Star
Stop the Spray BC – Posts | Facebook
BC’s Chief Forester Jumps to Multinational Wood Pellet Corporation | The Tyee
New evidence shows logging and cutting permits in proposed old growth deferral areas | Wilderness Committee
Glyphosate from helicopters? What’s planned for some B.C. forests
John Horgan’s NDP government rolls the dice by refusing public meeting with hunger strikers about forest policies | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
Ottawa’s ultimatum to Quebec on caribou is a warning to other provinces, experts say
(2) Dear John | Dear John: FOAD// | Facebook
Mysteries revealed in experimental forests give hope to the climate fight – The Weather Network
Juan de Fuca Forest Watch | “ALLOWING” is being “COMPLICIT” | Facebook
(1) Dear John | Facebook
Burning Up: The Controversial Biofuel Threatening BC’s Last Inland Rainforests | The Walrus
Shipbreaking continues in Union Bay despite injunction – Vancouver Island Free Daily
Saving old-growth forests: Q&A with Amazon Watch’s Leila Salazar-López
The Last Stand – Festival Version
Forests Minister Katrine Conroy phones hunger striker Howard Breen but doesn’t meet his central demand | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
VIDEO: B.C. couple says their water supply contaminated by logging activity – Vancouver Island Free Daily
B.C. man says old-growth protests escalating after brief hospitalization – Vancouver Island Free Daily
Stop the Spray BC – Posts | Facebook
Environmental groups, First Nations call for protection of bear dens across B.C.
Save Old Growth denies doxxing B.C. forests minister, but says she should be arrested – Vancouver Island Free Daily
B.C. earmarks $19M for Forests Ministry to fight climate change | CTV News
Protestors gather to stop plan to cut old growth forest near Argenta | The Nelson Daily
Stop the Spray BC – Posts | Facebook
(2) Dear John | Ignoring any mention of the NDP’s ongoing essential carbon sink liquidation, the soon-to-be-replaced Minister Conroy, also didn’t address the cold rea… | Facebook
(2) Dear John | Facebook
Old growth protesters block Trans-Canada Highway near Nanaimo
Forest clearcutting threatens Maritime bird species: study | CTV News
https://www.facebook.com/FairyCreekBlockade/posts/503385818149846
https://www.straight.com/news/curiosity-and-an-open-mind-can-help-us-slay-some-of-worst-effects-of-covid-19-in-bc
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heat-resiliency-cities-ted-2022-1.6418765
https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/b-c-first-nations-leadership-unveils-strategy-to-fight-climate-change/
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/at-risk-seabird-used-in-old-growth-forest-fight-as-federal-government-targeted-in-lawsuit-1.5880595
BC Land, Water, and Resource Stewardship — lwrs.minister@gov.bc.ca
Cow Moose Sign founder honoured for efforts to conserve B.C. moose population – Vancouver Island Free Daily
We Should All Be Standing with the Nuchatlaht | The Tyee
B.C. Hydro failing to live up to environmental obligations, say conservationists | CBC News
Ada’itsx/Fairy Creek Blockade – Posts | Facebook
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https://www.straight.com/news/curiosity-and-an-open-mind-can-help-us-slay-some-of-worst-effects-of-covid-19-in-bc
https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/cow-moose-sign-founder-honoured-for-efforts-to-conserve-b-c-moose-population/
https://thenarwhal.ca/glyphosate-southern-bc-forests/?h-Lw
https://www.straight.com/news/john-horgans-ndp-government-rolls-dice-by-refusing-public-meeting-with-hunger-strikers-about
https://www.cheknews.ca/ottawas-ultimatum-to-quebec-on-caribou-is-a-warning-to-other-provinces-experts-say-1014019/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/273003457081424/posts/580818866299880
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/04/21/DRIPA-Terra-Nullius/?
https://vimeo.com/677019149/e59e120d35
https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/b-c-first-nations-leadership-unveils-strategy-to-fight-climate-change/
https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/les-leyne-bcs-court-fight-negates-lofty-rhetoric-about-devotion-to-indigenous-reconciliation-5299959
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/fracking-lng-northeast-bc-impact-1.6426927
https://www.cheknews.ca/environmental-groups-first-nations-call-for-protection-of-bear-dens-across-b-c-1017467/
https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comment-its-time-for-bcas-own-species-at-risk-law-we-need-convince-the-premier-5308266
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/at-risk-seabird-used-in-old-growth-forest-fight-as-federal-government-targeted-in-lawsuit-1.5880595
BC Ministry of Health –HLTH.Health@gov.bc.ca
MLA REPORT: Lack of family doctor means diminished quality of life – Goldstream News Gazette
Precautionary principle saved B.C. from SARS-1, so why is it not being deployed against COVID-19? | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
LETTER: Relaxing of COVID measures ‘reckless,’ says doctors group – Vancouver Island Free Daily
Why bother with the B.C. Ministry of Health when Eric Feigl-Ding is there to educate you about COVID-19? | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
B.C. family doctors: Greens slam NDP for ‘crisis’ | CTV News
Another walk-in clinic in Victoria announces closure
Smart minds know why the B.C. NDP government’s COVID-19 response is deadly, but how can it be fixed? | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
Kelowna woman still seeking answers after nearly losing her life to a healthcare wait list – Kelowna News – Castanet.net
British Columbia drug overdoses break another record, latest data shows | CTV News
British Columbia drug overdoses break another record, latest data shows | CTV News
Comment: I’m an emergency physician. I’m angry that governments are mishandling primary care – Victoria Times Colonist
Northern Health Authority draws online disgust by insisting that handwashing is top tool to fight COVID-19 | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
Mask mandates, fickle NDP voters, and the 2001 B.C. election debacle | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
theBreaker.news Podcast: Will the NDP fulfil its Parkinson’s promise? – theBreaker
COVID-19 in B.C.: Health authority’s post about rapid test availability was ‘gaslighting,’ doctor says | CTV News
Drug treatment program near Kamloops being used as ‘get-out-of-jail free’ card, officials warn | CBC News
Another Greater Victoria medical clinic is closing – Victoria Times Colonist
#FireBonnie—there, someone in the media finally said it! | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
‘Death penalty situation’: 6 years ago, B.C. declared toxic drug poisonings a health emergency – Vancouver Island Free Daily
B.C. declared overdose deaths a public emergency 6 years ago. Advocates say the only change is the body count | CBC News
North Saanich cancer patient worried about long wait for follow-up care
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How can B.C. solve its family doctor crisis? – Victoria Times Colonist
Andrew Weaver accuses B.C. NDP government of moving into “herd immunity mode” on COVID-19 | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
COVID-19 in B.C.: 6th wave, long-term effects unpredictable with unknown case count, expert says | CTV News
Horgan says B.C. at ‘good point’ in COVID-19 pandemic, but expert skeptical | CBC News
B.C. schools: More parents say kids won’t get critical medication after policy change | CTV News
B.C.’s weekly COVID-19 data reporting leaves public in dark about next Omicron wave: critics – Victoria Times Colonist
Climate distress being tracked in real time in Canada – Victoria Times Colonist
Letters April 14: B.C.’s health-care failure; should we just get it all over with? – Victoria Times Colonist
B.C. boy at risk of life-threatening seizures ‘discharged’ from rescue-medication program – Abbotsford News
Victoria has longest average wait times for walk-in clinics: report
Ucluelet Mayor says BC Ambulance understaffing could lead to tragedy
How long are walk-in clinic waits in Victoria? – Victoria Times Colonist
B.C. Green Leader Sonia Furstenau denounces NDP government’s historical ignorance in response to COVID-19 | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
COVID-19: National Respiratory Roundtable urges Canadians to ignore dropping of mask mandates by provinces | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
Almost a million B.C. residents have no family doctor. Many blame the province’s fee-for-service system | CBC News
10 Proclamations for the COVID Unaware, including members of the B.C. legislature | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
Metro Vancouver parents of babies with clubfoot say treatment delayed | CTV News
A crisis in care: CBC series examines Victoria’s family doctor shortage | CBC News
COVID-19 hospitalizations up as B.C. decreases data supply | CTV News
B.C. COVID: Critics say more data needed amid 6th wave | CTV News
Delays in child’s clubfoot treatment have B.C. family considering travel to other province | CTV News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-fracking-premature-1.6408680
https://www.straight.com/news/curiosity-and-an-open-mind-can-help-us-slay-some-of-worst-effects-of-covid-19-in-bc
BC Indigenous Relations –IRR.Minister@gov.bc.ca
B.C. parents unable to register baby with Indigenous name | CTV News
Nuxalk First Nation still waiting for return of family totem pole from Royal B.C. Museum, chief says | CBC News
Police officers who handcuffed Indigenous man, granddaughter outside bank ordered suspended for misconduct | CBC News
‘They pretend we don’t exist’: Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs insulted after RBC cancels in-person meeting last-minute | Canada’s National Observer: News & Analysis
Province refuses to register baby’s First Nations name – Vancouver Island Free Daily
Their Land Was Drowned by a Flood of Hydropower | The Tyee
Ottawa feared repeat of 2020 rail blockades before B.C. pipeline arrests last fall – Vancouver Island Free Daily
DRIPA or Terra Nullius? The Province Can’t Have It Both Ways | The Tyee
Indigenous knowledge and science team up to triple a caribou herd
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https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/04/11/We-Should-All-Be-Standing-With-Nuchatlaht/?
https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/04/20/Coming-Indigenous-Power-Play/
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https://www.cheknews.ca/environmental-groups-first-nations-call-for-protection-of-bear-dens-across-b-c-1017467/
https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/island-first-nations-say-police-reform-report-a-starting-point-immediate-action-needed-1.5883334
BC Ministry of Children & Families –mcf.info@gov.bc.ca
Mother of Flash actor Logan Williams sues B.C. authorities – Victoria Times Colonist
Parents keep pressure on NDP plan for B.C. child support hubs – Vancouver Island Free Daily
https://www.straight.com/news/curiosity-and-an-open-mind-can-help-us-slay-some-of-worst-effects-of-covid-19-in-bc
BC Agriculture, Food and Fisheries –AGR.Minister@gov.bc.ca
Protesters occupy B.C. SPCA’s head office in Vancouver | CTV News
Greenhouse gas emissions exempted, for big B.C. greenhouses – Vancouver Island Free Daily
https://www.straight.com/news/curiosity-and-an-open-mind-can-help-us-slay-some-of-worst-effects-of-covid-19-in-bc
BC Solicitor and Attorney Generals, BC Courts –PSSG.Minister@gov.bc.ca, AG.Minister@gov.bc.ca
Sarah Leamon: Bill 17’s changes to traffic court add up to brazen denial of due process and access to justice | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
More Trees Less Assholes – Posts | Facebook
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Gidimt’en Checkpoint – Posts | Facebook
Les Leyne: NDP cabinet changed Police Act as MLAs were still reviewing it; aftermath of officer refusing to kill bear cubs – Victoria Times Colonist
4/20: Cannabis could be safe alternative to toxic drug supply, so why is access being cut off? | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
Les Leyne: NDP cabinet changed Police Act as MLAs were still reviewing it; aftermath of officer refusing to kill bear cubs – Victoria Times Colonist
Reconciliation with Indigenous people in B.C. – Victoria Times Colonist
Unease about public safety on streets of B.C. cities – Victoria Times Colonist
Class-action lawsuit against ICBC over underpaying accident victims gets green light – Vancouver Island Free Daily
‘Nothing concrete’: Advocates disappointed with B.C. police reform report | CTV News
B.C. police reform report sees skepticism from First Nations | CTV News
https://www.straight.com/news/curiosity-and-an-open-mind-can-help-us-slay-some-of-worst-effects-of-covid-19-in-bc
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/04/11/We-Should-All-Be-Standing-With-Nuchatlaht/?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/criminal-contempt-coastal-gaslink-wetsuweten-1.6418476 article fails to mention CGL saves money if prosecution service takes over
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heat-resiliency-cities-ted-2022-1.6418765
https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/extreme-heat-should-be-labelled-a-natural-disaster-new-report-urges/
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/04/21/DRIPA-Terra-Nullius/?
https://vimeo.com/677019149/e59e120d35
https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/trevor-hancock-bc-governments-lng-infatuation-makes-it-dangerously-radical-5294434
British Columbia & Premier –Premier@gov.bc.ca
Pilings, pandemic push up unexpected costs for B.C.’s Site C dam – Vancouver Island Free Daily
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Curiosity and an open mind can help us slay some of the worst effects of COVID-19 in B.C. | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
NDP rolling in the dough – theBreaker
NDP FOI minister won’t commit to adopting recommendations of all-party committee – theBreaker
Nondisclosure agreements and the price of silence in Canadian politics | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
Lobbying loophole poses ethical problem in B.C.: expert – Victoria Times Colonist
theBreaker.news Podcast: Lobbying loopholes mean treats aplenty for NDP friends, insiders – theBreaker
B.C. needs a species-at-risk law – Victoria Times Colonist
Is it fair to characterize Premier John Horgan as “anti-science”? | Georgia Straight Vancouver’s News & Entertainment Weekly
https://www.straight.com/news/sarah-leamon-bill-17s-changes-to-traffic-court-add-up-to-brazen-denial-of-due-process-and
https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comment-canadas-and-bcs-climate-plans-dont-meet-the-moment-5228319
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-fracking-premature-1.6408680
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-climate-emissions-ipcc-1.6410443
https://www.straight.com/news/smart-minds-know-why-bc-ndp-governments-covid-19-response-is-deadly-but-how-can-it-be-fixed
https://www.straight.com/news/david-suzuki-will-world-again-hit-snooze-on-latest-climate-alarm
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/04/11/We-Should-All-Be-Standing-With-Nuchatlaht/?
https://www.straight.com/covid-19-pandemic/news/mask-mandates-fickle-ndp-voters-and-2001-bc-election-debacle
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/heat-resiliency-cities-ted-2022-1.6418765
https://www.straight.com/news/john-horgans-ndp-government-rolls-dice-by-refusing-public-meeting-with-hunger-strikers-about
https://in-sights.ca/2022/04/16/status-quo-bias-and-climate-destruction/
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/conservation-groups-allege-bc-hydro-is-not-allocating-enough-funding-to-habitat-restoration-at-its-dams-5277743
https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/extreme-heat-should-be-labelled-a-natural-disaster-new-report-urges/
https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/04/19/Their-Land-Was-Drowned-By-A-Flood-Of-Hydropower/
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/04/21/DRIPA-Terra-Nullius/?
https://vimeo.com/677019149/e59e120d35
https://www.vancouverislandfreedaily.com/news/b-c-first-nations-leadership-unveils-strategy-to-fight-climate-change/
https://www.timescolonist.com/islander/trevor-hancock-bc-governments-lng-infatuation-makes-it-dangerously-radical-5294434
https://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/les-leyne-bcs-court-fight-negates-lofty-rhetoric-about-devotion-to-indigenous-reconciliation-5299959
https://www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/no-fracking-british-columbia
