Hot take: Hoping people will look out for each other is causing deaths and disability.
Story from my hospitals in #BC: last week, maybe 5% of workers were masking. Even though everyone knew that everyone is sick right now. But no one wanted to be the one to stand out. NO ONE.
This week, all it took was for someone in leadership to say that it's mandated that you mask, and now compliance is almost 100% and no one is complaining, NO ONE ...1/?
As #Kelowna went under #wildfire evacuation orders yesterday prior to last night's maelstrom, Tracy Gray - federal CPC MP for Kelowna-Lake Country - was posting about "Trudeau's carbon tax" in apparent ignorance of the fact her Kelowna constituents don't pay it because #BC has had its own carbon tax since 2008 and are not a part of the Federal Carbon Pricing system. #cdnpoli
I just tried and failed to get my 8yo kid into a doctor's office. And I want to talk about that.
I live in #Vancouver, #BC. #Canada. Many in the US see this as some kind of promised land, because there's a public health system. But it doesn't work.
It CAN work. I've also lived in Strasbourg, France. And in comparison, there my kid would have seen a pediatrician within hours of a call.
This failure is a POLICY CHOICE by authorities. Not some impossible social hurdle.
😬 "So my sister's house is in danger of burning down in #Kelowna Lake Country, #BC and her MP doesn't believe #climatechange fuelled the wildfires."
"Just got word that water bombers are hitting the homes on the hillside preparing for the worst."
"They left this morning to the far side of Lake #Okanagan on Westside road near Vernon. It's about 3 km away from the Okanogan resort which has just burned to the ground on west side road. There really isn't any place to go."
These irreplaceable old growth forests continue to be logged across British Columbia. Over 1,200 people have been arrested trying to keep them standing. #environment#oldgrowth#BC#bcpoli
re:Mix is a kitchen blender which you use with your own glass jars. It’s made in #Berlin and “open source”, and the intent is for others to build & sell in their local region.
I was at one of my favorite little gift shops in #PortMoody just now. I saw these mugs and had to share. They perfectly express my increasingly recurring mood. #OctInCanada#BC#Canada 🇨🇦
#Indigenous, 5'7", slim.
Last seen wearing black hoodie, black puffy jacket, ripped blue jeans. #Burnaby RCMP asks that we report sightings & information to them at 604-646-9999.
BC climate activist faces deportation decision
Robyn Bell
6–8 minutes
A judge will decide today (April 16) whether Zain Haq, co-founder of the BC climate group Save Old Growth, will be deported from Canada. Haq has spent the last five years living in both Vancouver and Victoria with his wife Sophia Papp—a life he may soon have to leave behind
A B.C. First Nation’s 3-year effort to change a city’s name
Powell River’s name currently reflect a man whose main goal was to assimilate Indigenous people
Lauren Collins