A guest post follows from Josh Paterson, who is formerly a lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, and recently appointed Executive Director of the BC Civil Liberties Association. Josh’s remarks are his own personal opinions. ********** Good evening. I’m happy to be here in unceded Coast Salish territories to address you this evening, to express my unreserved [...]
Entries Tagged as 'First Nations & Aboriginal'
Enbridge testimony from Josh Paterson
January 16th, 2013 · Marc Lee · 1 Comment · Environment, resources & sustainability, First Nations & Aboriginal
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Services for at-risk youth in BC: moving from dysfunction to effective support
September 12th, 2012 · Diana Guenther · 2 Comments · Children & youth, First Nations & Aboriginal
Guest blogger Diana Guenther drew on extensive work experience in social services to develop her Masters of Urban Studies thesis on improving services for at-risk youth in BC. She shares some of her key recommendations here: Having worked with at risk youth for 15 years and in three different countries, I have always been quite [...]
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Sliammon votes: what opportunities might come by sharing more than two sides of the story?
July 4th, 2012 · Janet Newbury · 1 Comment · First Nations & Aboriginal
Sliammon (Tla’Amin) Nation, located on the northern segment of British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, is making history. But not in the way that may have been expected. After over ten years of negotiations, the vote for a final treaty agreement was to take place on June 16th, 2012. The intention, according to both the Sliammon Treaty [...]
And they all fall down: The day of reckoning in B.C.’s over-cut interior forests looms
April 18th, 2012 · Ben Parfitt · 1 Comment · Economy, Employment & labour, Environment, resources & sustainability, First Nations & Aboriginal, Municipalities
For more than a quarter century, logging companies at the government’s blessing have been on a tear through British Columbia’s expansive interior forests. In the name of “salvaging” economic value from forests attacked by mountain pine beetles, beginning with a smaller outbreak centered in the Williams Lake area in the 1980s and followed by the [...]
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Just who should be putting who under trusteeship?
December 15th, 2011 · Keith Reynolds · 1 Comment · First Nations & Aboriginal
I am the first to admit that, lamentably, I know very little about the problems that face First Nations people. That did not stop me from having an opinion about the federal takeover at Attawapiskat. My first reaction was that the Chief and Council should have thrown the keys to the federal government and said, [...]
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Inequality and Climate Injustice: A Durban Post-Mortem
December 13th, 2011 · Marc Lee · 5 Comments · Climate change, Energy, Environment, resources & sustainability, First Nations & Aboriginal
The United Nations climate change talks in Durban, South Africa, ended 2011 with a whimper. After a year in which climate disasters rolled across the globe, major polluting nations like Canada chose to ignore them, seeking instead to disrupt the Durban negotiations, then blew the world a raspberry, by officially pulling out of the Kyoto [...]
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Time to give shale gas industry a closer look before we’re totally fracked
November 9th, 2011 · Ben Parfitt · Comments Off · Climate change, Economy, Energy, Environment, resources & sustainability, First Nations & Aboriginal
Despite the recent release by Canada’s natural gas industry of a set of guiding principles governing the controversial gas well “stimulation” method known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking”, and despite the almost immediate endorsement of those principles by BC Premier and industry cheerleader Christy Clark, more and more British Columbians are justifiably worried about what [...]
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BC’s wood trade with China may be booming – but at a price
August 11th, 2011 · Ben Parfitt · 4 Comments · Economy, Employment & labour, Environment, resources & sustainability, First Nations & Aboriginal
This year, members of the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation expect to fill the holds of nine ocean freighters in Prince Rupert with raw logs from BC’s north coast – logs that will then be shipped across the Pacific Ocean to ports in China. The northern coastal Nation has been active in logging for some time, [...]
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Public consultation down the drain as government comes to fracking industry’s aid
August 3rd, 2011 · Ben Parfitt · Comments Off · Economy, Energy, Environment, resources & sustainability, First Nations & Aboriginal, Transparency & accountability
It has been a year since word began to percolate in the Hudson’s Hope area that Talisman Energy Inc. was eying the Williston Reservoir a short distance east of town as a long-term source of water for use in developing its gas resources. Yet in the intervening months – months in which local residents watched [...]
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Fossil fuel expansion as a crime against humanity
June 23rd, 2011 · Marc Lee · 2 Comments · Climate change, Energy, Environment, resources & sustainability, First Nations & Aboriginal
After at 2010 that was one of the warmest years on record, 2011 has shown us astonishing patterns of extreme weather worldwide. It would take a long time to make the full list, but you know what I mean: tornadoes, floods, drought, record cold in some parts, record heat in others, hailstorms (Al Gore does [...]
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