It's opening day for the $34 billion Trans Mountain pipeline. Arguably the biggest boondoggle in the country's history that pushes climate targets further out of reach. And because gov intends to sell at a loss, it represents another subsidy to Big Oil
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Our recent tax study finds that the top 1% pay less tax as a share of income than EVERYBODY else. This has to change. And despite what your conservative uncle thinks no one pays half their income in taxes.

The business community and boomers with big profits baked into their recreational properties can't stop complaining about the government's capital gains tax hike. The feds should do even more. #cdnpoli #taxes #inequality nationalobserver.com/2024/05/01/opi…

Via UBC Oceans - A parasite tied to bleaching in global coral reefs has infected B.C. marine life - Rochelle Baker Canada's National Observer
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University of British Columbia researchers have discovered a parasite associated with the bleaching of tropical coral reefs is prevalent in their cold-water cousins like sea anemones on the West Coast. #ClimateCrisis #CoralBleaching nationalobserver.com/2024/04/17/new… UBC Media Relations

A non-issue for voters over the past 15 years, B.C.’s carbon tax is taking centre stage for people increasingly concerned about affordability and swayed by federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's populist messaging.  nationalobserver.com/2024/04/11/ana…

A campaign by Canada's largest logging lobby aims to pitch the forest industry as sustainable, despite growing evidence the sector is a net emitter of climate-warming gases. nationalobserver.com/2024/04/10/new…

Give David Eby credit — he's pushing Justin Trudeau to change on housing reforms, and not the other way around.
Fed infrastructure money for housing will require municipalities to allow four-plexes on single family lots, something BC has already mandated.

Oh my goodness! This is how I found out that we’ve debuted on the bestseller list! #newbooks #ecology #nativesinstem #climatechange

This is pretty incredible. Thank you, IRE. Reading 'one of the most ambitious public records projects ever published” is so meaningful to us.

B.C. Premier David Eby's loyalty to the carbon tax has landed him at the centre of a political maelstrom on carbon pricing, which the BC Green Party calls a distraction from the big-picture solutions needed for climate change. nationalobserver.com/2024/04/05/new…

The new West Coast Transit system started today! 🙌🏼🚌 The first buses left #Tofino & hitaçu (nr #Ucluelet ), each taking a passenger. From Tofino, someone who’d previously paid $25 to get to work, from hitaçu, someone connecting to an intercity bus to visit family in Nanaimo. 1/2

Quadra Island's Copper Bluffs residents are angry Mosaic Forest Management is logging sensitive areas in nearby watersheds — a move they believe puts the community at greater risk from drought and wildfire. nationalobserver.com/2024/04/01/new…

Gee, it must be the Stanley Park bike lane causing all this congestion. Oh they took that out?

No, wait ... Is it actually cars that cause congestion????

How many Mayors in Metro Vancouver use transit as their primary mode of transportation?

And is it a good idea to give them more control over transit in the region?

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I've been trying to pitch outlets something about this — particularly, present day police coverage (typically just copy-paste or lightly edited news releases) is imo the vision of a future with a hollowed out local media. not a dearth of information, but a series of news releases

What an amazing day of connection & education we had at yesterday's Island Indigenous Foods Gathering 2024.

🫐🌱🐟

Read more about the importance of #Indigenous #food #sovereignty & #security in Rochelle Baker's article for Canada's National Observer 👇🏽

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Tonight's the night.

Organizers have already moved the event to a bigger room. We've got a few VIPs planning to attend (local MP Gord Johns, MLA Adam Walker).

And the irrepressible Sandy Garossino 🇨🇦🌻 and I will do our very best to moderately entertaining.
#ParksvilleBC

🍁 B.C. Hydro's welcome pivot to energy-based EV charging rates means fairer and easier to understand rates, writes National Observer's Rochelle Baker.

'Everyone is paying for exactly what they get.'

#bcpoli #EV
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Dream job alert. One of the best news towns in Canada and a fantastic newspaper: