The hottest place in Canada, Lytton BC, has burned to the ground. The mayor of the small village in the Fraser Canyon said “it would be a miracle if everyone made it out alive.” On the evening of Wednesday, June 30, smoke was spotted, and 15 minutes later a full evacuation order was issued as […]
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For years, governments have been shovelling rhetoric about commitments to reduce carbon emissions. The most famous is the international commitment to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Yet, emissions have increased by 60% since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed in 1992, at the Rio Earth Summit. The Kyoto Protocol and […]
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The city of Surrey is the second largest in British Columbia, with nearly 600,000 mostly working-class residents. It is home to families from Canada and dozens of other countries and is host to some of the largest multi-ethnic celebrations in Canada, including the massive annual Vaisakhi parade of up to half a million people, a […]
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The Afzaal family: Yumna Afzaal, daughter, aged 15 – killed Madiha Salman, mother, aged 44 – killed Salman Afzaal, father, aged 46 – killed Talat Afzaal, grandmother, aged 74 – killed Fayez Afzaal, son, aged 9 – seriously injured Sunday, June 6, in London, Ontario saw a sickening, mind-numbing event – the premeditated, cold-blooded killing […]
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Allie Pev, Métis Cree, Treaty 6, is a member of Socialist Alternative Canada. Allie Pev, Michif Nēhiyaw, Treaty 6, currently residing on the Unceded Homelands of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, sel̓íl̓witulh and sḵwx̱wú7mesh Coast Salish peoples. This is a loss that cannot be quantified. The deep pain that runs through the blood memory of Indigenous peoples has been re-ignited. […]
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BC Hotel workers are continuing their struggle to defend their jobs and their livelihoods against the ruthless hotel management. Affected hotel workers, many of them members of Unite Here Local 40, are fighting for the right of recall, which is the right to be rehired after a lay-off at their previous pay rate with the […]
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Since last August, activists have set up numerous blockades in protest of old growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed. The self-named Rainforest Flying Squad, a group of volunteer activists and grassroots organizers, set up camp as the BC government granted permits to Teal-Jones, a BC-based logging company, to cut timber in the Fairy Creek […]
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Greyhound has closed all its services across Canada. In 2018, it announced the closure of all its services in Western Canada and the federal government did nothing. This was a criminally missed opportunity to take over the entire, already-existing, Canada-wide bus network. Will they fail again this time? The loss of Greyhound leaves hundreds of […]
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Aquaculture, Mismanagement and Climate Change In 2020 the Fraser River sockeye salmon run collapsed. This catastrophic and historic collapse is a real existential emergency for these fish and the people who rely on them. This follows a series of record-breaking bad years. Between 1980 and 2014, sockeye returns in the Fraser River fluctuated between a […]
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The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which includes Fort McMurray and nearby oilsands worksites, is reeling from a third wave of COVID. A state of emergency was declared on April 26. The region reached over 1,900 cases per 100,000 people in early May. Worksite outbreaks have contributed to the region’s highest cases per capita status, […]
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