This federal survey is a complete #farce. My Dad got covid in hospital. He died from long covid cardiac arrest. My Aunt got covid in hospital & now suffers from long covid.....
The documentary was not broadcast in #Canada. Hansen said the reason B.C.’s wood pellet industry is a focus in #UnitedKingdom is the #Drax Power Station in #England.
#BCNDP#ChiefForester Diane Nicholls attended a #WoodPellet#TradeShow in 2019. After supporting the industry’s controversial growth in BC, she left the ministry of forests for a job with the UK company that now dominates the new industry in #BritishColumbia.
Planning is underway for a new #HighSchool in north #Langford as the student population continues to boom as the #WestShore attracts more families.
The proposed high school will be built on a 12-acre site in the #CityGateway area near Costco that #BCgovernment acquired 4 years ago for $20 million.
The facility includes an all-weather sports field with lights funded by the City of Langford and a theatre that could become a focal point for the arts on the West Shore.
Though the majority of #forestry companies in #BritishColumbia have committed to presenting their proposed operations in the #FOMportal, the project is currently #voluntary, the press release stated.
The “enhanced care model,” replaced #litigation based model & provides set amounts of #compensation by #injury type to victims, regardless of fault & without a referral. It eliminates most victims’ #RightToSue.
This is so many levels of fucked up by government. They are selling invasive species to unaware citizens. This should be #ILLEGAL. The more #daphne spreads, the more this #corrupt BC NDP govt will use that as justification to spray more #toxic#glysophates over forests & more greenspaces!
The local #BCForestry research centre is only a few minutes from our home. Apparently they had a plant sale recently. My youngest brother told me they were selling daphne seedlings. DA FUQ! Daphne is super #invasive & many of us longtime nature stewards & guardians have been trying to remove it from local forests, parks & public greenspaces for over 2 decades! Yet, our shit #BCgovernment thinks it's OK to sell them to unaware public?!? I'll post pic of a daphne #plants they tried selling soon.
#BChealthCare database is so messed up - it's been sending reminder texts & emails to the tiny population of BC citizens who have been medically exempted from getting covid vaccines - even though several of us want the vaxxes. #BCNDP - under horrific #Eugenics guidance of #racist#BonnieHenry - is still playing #RussianRoulette on human lives in #BritishColumbia#Canada
I fucking hate our #BCgovernment & all their overpaid shit for brains, stooges.
I was 13 yrs old & being taught how to target shoot pop cans with a pellet rifle. Jake Masselink - one of our family's sponsors who funded our family to come to Canada & helped us apply for asylum & then Canadian citizenship - was teaching me. It was on #PenderIsland at their family homestead, in Hope Bay. My 2 brothers are waiting their turn.
Jake worked for #BCgovernment, in #BCParks department for decades. He's an #environmentalist & one of the first white persons I learned to trust. He taught me how to kayak too. I have many wonderful family memories of our times on Pender, with the Masselink family.
This outtake from Environmental Planning students at #RoyalRoadsUniversity, recounts some of their more challenging experiences with BC's oldest park on #VancouverIsland.
Tonight, I light up 4 white candles for my brothers/sisters who passed away, after spending almost their whole lives - trying to fight back against multiple #BCgovernment & multiple #GovernmentOfCanada abuses & exploitation & ongoing divide/conquer evil #colonialism.
If things keep going the way they are now - I'll be joining my now deceased fellow family of lifelong activitists. We know odds are stacked against us. We just can't live without trying to change what we can, while we're alive.
Please watch to understand early resistance action to try to protect old growth on #VancouverIsland was dealt with by #RCMP & #BCgovernment. This battle resulted in more ancient forest areas getting protection. It took almost a decade to get government to change & relent to endless protests. We'd pop up with new blockades & block new road work to access killing more old growth.
Long, sustained direct action does eventually work but it creates lots of activist burnouts.
Four months after Tiny Town initially closed, #BCgovernment has now announced its plans to reopen the #SupportiveHousing units at same location.
#TinyTown previously provided homes for formerly #unhoused people on Caledonia Ave. The units were #repurposed#ShippingContainers, & the last of the residents moved out when the supportive housing at 1075 Meares St. opened in October 2023.
FYI: Almost all my meetings with concerned citizens, scientists & more - about #InvasiveSpecies was disappointing & felt like a huge waste of my time. We spent 4+ yrs, forced to just talk - when over 70% of us on consulting boards were pissed off because it was not our first time being asked/telling BC govt our findings & giving list of what needs to change immediately. They ignore our recommendations & create more consulting boards. It's so frustrating!
I'd love to see legislation put in where no govt can keep commissioning EXACT SAME SCIENCE STUDIES & FORCING TAXPAYERS TO FOOT BILLS FOR REPEATED WORK THAT COMES UP WITH EXACT SAME RESULTS!
MAKE SOME MORE FUCKING NOISE BECAUSE #DAVIDEBY & #BCNDP#BCGOVERNMENT ARE OK BLOWING MORE OF OUR TAX MONIES ON COMMISSIONING EXACT SAME FUCKING STUDIES.
DO THE RECOMMENDATIONS YOU FUCKING PAID FOR US TO TELL YOU IS FUCKING ESSENTIAL, #BCNDP. JUST FUCKING DO IT! TELL YOUR CORRUPT LOBBYISTS TO SUCK IT!
What can we do with some #VancouverIsland pest species? We can learn how to cook & eat them, instead of just killing & wasting actual real #WildFoods & helping with #InvasiveSpecies at the same time.
Don't be super grossed out about learning to cook & eat some invasive insects. Especially if you already eat several wild foods, eat your homegrown foods & eat meat or buy everything from stores.
Every single one of those foods has insects on or in them - in some form & invisible to our eyes.(1)
@msbellows@TheGreatLlama@chris On our island, it's not homeowners who have made broom spread like wildfire - it's #BCgovernment who keeps letting #clearcuts happen. Broom proliferates in poor soil & full clear-cuts. It's biggest reason we have mass broom infestations all over #VancouverIsland & gulf islands & beyond.
We are talking hectares(by govt & industry) compared to half acres(by homeowners).
I'm fine with fining landowners - if BC Government is also held to full accountability too.
*Note that the only Indigenous person they quoted is colonial sellout E Ross. No other Indigenous person is included in this story 😖
The proposed legislation builds on foundation of the #BCgovernment’s previous adoption of principles of UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, with reconciliation, the high number of outstanding treaties with #FirstNations in #BritishColumbia legal battles as some of the driving factors.
Over several months, @thenarwhal & The Globe and Mail have scoured publicly available records, reviewed financial data & interviewed experts about #BritishColumbia's mine reclamation plan & found that, in practice, BC was short $753-million of the estimated #cleanup cost in its last financial year & some of the best-capitalized companies have not yet paid for future #ReclamationCosts.
#LockheedMartin cares so little about #humanity that they've been spending MILLIONS on pumping out global digital ads campaign. I saw 2 while playing my regular Word Yahtzy on the weekend. You know who else is pumping mass digital #whitewashed & #greenwashed ad campaigns at same time? #PierrePoilievre & #BCNDP#BCgovernment - neither should be trusted.
Pimping propaganda isn't what ethical folks with strong morals & ethics would EVER spend millions on.