Early on Thursday, February 6, the RCMP launched a military style assault on the traditional territory of the Wet’suwet’en in north western BC. The Wet’suwet’en, led by their traditional chiefs, have set up camps to peacefully claim their control of this territory, land that has never been relinquished by treaty. The hereditary chiefs are a […]
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Written by a BC teacher. TOPICS:British Columbia In British Columbia’s 2017 election, the New Democratic Party (NDP) boldly stated that “After a generation of neglect, it’s time to give schools, students and teachers the investment and support they deserve.” More than two years later, schools, students and teachers don’t seem to deserve very much. Any […]
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We Need Jobs not Climate Disaster As the government owns the Trans Mountain pipeline to Vancouver it is no surprise the government has approved its construction. They are hardly neutral judges!! The pipeline will boost climate change by increasing the use of fossil fuels. This approval comes as eastern Canada is still recovering from devastating […]
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Cities around the world, from Vancouver to Toronto, New York to London, and Berlin and many others have experienced housing crises over the last decade. While the local details may differ, the root cause is the same – rampant profiteering from homes. Housing Movements in Cities Around the World In Los Angeles, where California laws […]
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When the NDP swept to power in Alberta in 2015, many people were in shock. For 44 years, the Progressive Conservatives ruled the province, the longest unbroken run in government at the provincial or federal level in Canadian history. But the NDP’s rule has proved to be a temporary interruption in a long line of […]
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Before the by-elections on February 26, the NDP had held two of the three seats being contested. By the end of the night they only had one seat — yet they were celebrating. This is a worrying sign of how low the party’s sights are set. The NDP are celebrating that their leader, Jagmeet Singh, […]
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Vancouver voters made history on Saturday, October 20, 2018 by electing veteran organizer and community campaigner Jean Swanson to city council in the city’s most important electoral victory in decades. She with one school board and two parks board candidates were all elected under the rejuvenated Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE) banner. The campaign’s centrepiece […]
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This is not the apocalypse . . . yet. But, the recent raging fires, droughts, hurricanes, floods, storms and melting ice feel like it. And these are only the impacts of a 1°C increase in global temperatures. The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report stated with “high confidence,” that human activities have already increased […]
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Vanessa Wirth, from Berkeley Tower, was interviewed by Simon Schweitzer of Socialist Alternative Vancouver Berkeley Tower, overlooking English Bay in Vancouver, when it opened in 1959 was one of West End’s first high-rise apartments. Vanessa has lived in Berkeley Tower for five years and is active in the campaign to resist renoviction from the new […]
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