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A climate leader could be premier before Christmas this year, with two years to govern before the next general election. I’m sure that worries oil and gas CEOs, and the senior bureaucrats and party mandarins who have enabled their takeover of B.C. But for those who believe in public control of our government, it’s an extraordinary opportunity.
Like primary voters in the U.S., the BC NDP party’s leadership race will play an outsized... role in deciding who holds power – and how the province responds to the climate emergency, housing crisis, pandemic, inflation, poisoned drugs and more.
Anjali Appaduri’s challenge to the status quo candidate, David Eby, is demonstrating how far the party has drifted from its roots in social and economic justice. The contrast is not pretty for Eby or the 48 MLAs who rushed to endorse him. They’re the political establishment now. And in the five years since they took power, life in B.C. has gotten alarmingly worse.
The backroom power brokers in the U.S. Democratic Party pulled every string they could to stop Bernie Sanders’ insurgent campaign – twice. Will B.C’s. New Democratic leaderships try to derail Anjali’s grassroots campaign in the same way? If they do, only a powerful collective of supporters on her side can stop them.
Read our latest blog on the leadership race in B.C.
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Trans Mountain will not have to come up with an additional $1.1 billion to cover the cleanup cost of possible oil spills from its expansion project, the Canada Energy Regulator has decided. So not only would a bitumen spill devastate the area in which it occurs, the public would be on the hook for Big Oil’s mess (as per usual). -National Observer
- David Eby demonstrated a lack of composure and patience this week, telling the Vancouver Sun he’s “frustrated” by Anjali Appaduri’s campaign to become premier, ruining his plan to take the seat unchallenged. Not a great look. -Vancouver Sun
- Terrifying. The massive drought and heatwave in China, leaving the country’s third-largest river dry, may end up being the worst in recorded history.
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Hundreds of people gathered to share a meal and celebrate the return of the salmon to Wet’suwet’en territory. Drummers and dancers performed on a bluff high above the river as community members and guests sought shade from the midday sun. “It’s our responsibility to take care of these waters,” says David de Wit, member of the Laksilyu Clan, belonging to the House on Top of Flat Rock (Tsekalbaiyex). “And we ask the Salmon People, please continue to come and feed us — our lives, our culture, our language, our wellness comes from water and the salmon.” -The Narwhal
Dogwood Recommends: Douglas’s Word with Joni Olsen - Discussing the Douglas Treaties
Learn about the 1852 Saanich Douglas Treaty from Joni Olsen of Tsartlip Nation, a direct descendant of Douglas Treaty signatories. She covers what a treaty is, what led to the creation of the Douglas Treaties and the important difference between written and oral versions of the Saanich treaty.
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