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Your monthly update from the BC Health Coalition
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- Published on Thursday, 30 November 2023 09:27
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Your November 2023 monthly update from
the
BC Health Coalition
UPDATE
Town Hall Report-back: Sticking up for public health care
Many thanks to the amazing panelists and moderator who participated in our town hall! From left to right: Dr. Kelvin Bei, Leslie Gaudette, Lisa Akinyi May, Nikolas Barry-Shaw, Dr. Lindsay Hedden, Dr. Rita McCracken, and Ronnie Nicolarosa.
On November 20, the BC Health Coalition held the Sticking Up For Public Health Care Townhall. We gathered with health care workers, patients, seniors, researchers, and the public for a deep-dive into the cautionary tales about privatization and the public solutions that will save our health care system.
The event was co-sponsored by our partners at Canadian Doctors for Medicare and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office. It featured panelists from the Council...
Biodiversity needs a law to protect species
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 November 2023 17:06
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Tell the BC government to go the distance for ecosystems
Hi Paov,
The BC NDP came to power in 2017, promising a law to protect endangered species. Under intense lobbying by logging, mining and oil and gas companies, they backed away from this commitment.
Now they’ve stated their intention to prioritize ecosystems and biodiversity above resource extraction — it’s up to us to hold them to that. Anything other than a new law will continue to allow species to fall through the legal gaps toward extinction.
The province is asking for comments on the draft framework, and this is a crucial time to speak up for endangered species and make our voices heard.
This last month, we’ve seen a flurry of environmental announcements here in BC! At the end of October, the provincial government announced its conservation financing mechanism, a fund to help create needed protected areas to conserve old-growth forests...
There's still time to show your support!
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 November 2023 12:03
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Today is Giving Tuesday!
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 November 2023 08:02
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Paov – We cant take ocean ecosyste
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- Published on Monday, 27 November 2023 17:02
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Trans Mountain wants to put a pipeline through this sacred site
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- Published on Thursday, 23 November 2023 17:04
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Hear from Secwépemc community members
Hi Paov,
My heart sank when I heard the news. The industry-captured Canadian Energy Regulator granted the federally-owned Trans Mountain pipeline permission to dig through the heart of Pipsell, or Jacko Lake, near Kamloops.
It infuriated Secwépemc elders, hereditary leaders and community members who have long opposed pipeline construction of any kind through their territories and say the nation has never given its consent. It also broke a promise made to Stk’emlupsemc te Secwépemc who made a trenchless crossing of their most sacred site a condition of an agreement with the company.
Hear their stories and efforts to protect Pipsell at a webinar on Dec. 7 at 6 PM.
You may remember the area around Jacko Lake from the fight over Ajax Mine, which united Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Kamloops to oppose a copper and gold mine there. Secwépemc peoples’ creation story centres around Pipsell and it holds...
Read more: Trans Mountain wants to put a pipeline through this sacred site
Ask for bold leadership on the public health care solutions we need
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- Published on Tuesday, 21 November 2023 16:21
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Paov,
Yesterday, at our Sticking Up for Public Health Care Townhall, we heard from Dr. Saad Ahmed from Canadian Doctors for Medicare. Saad shared his concerns about the Canadian Medical Association's (CMA) leading role in a national consultation regarding the "right mix" of public-private heatlh care. Here's what he said:
The Canadian Medical Association purports to be the national voice of physicians across Canada, and with that in mind they’ve been holding a national town hall series on the right mix of public and private delivery of health care services. I can tell you that as Canadian Doctors for Medicare we have worked very hard to make it clear to the CMA that the so-called ‘bold’ reimagining of Medicare must lay in and through the public system and not in vain attempts at privatization. The framing of the CMA townhalls itself is mistaken, and is trying to, I think, normalize a role for profit-driven, private services in our health care system.
Paov, will you take a moment to send a message to the CMA and ask them choose leadership that is rooted evidence and imagines...
Read more: Ask for bold leadership on the public health care solutions we need
[evoz] Cafe Simpatico: Friday, Nov 24
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- Published on Monday, 20 November 2023 18:45
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Please join us!
Central America Support Committee
presents
Café Simpatico
Friday, November 24th, 2023
Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association
1923 Fernwood Road
Doors open at 7:00 PM: Program at 7:30 PM
Join the Central America Support Committee for a Report on Cuba and the Venceremos Brigade. Local activist, electoral candidate and public speaker, Tyson Strandlund will tell us about the upcoming 30th Che Guevara Volunteer Work Brigade coming up in April-May and show the video he made in Cuba. Tyson will share his observations about his recent trips to Cuba.
Everyone is welcome! Refreshments including Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Come see old friends, meet new people, and show your support for Latin America. Donations welcome.
Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC)
See you at the rally on Saturday, Paov
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- Published on Saturday, 18 November 2023 06:06
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Thanks for coming to speak out against fracking
Hi Paov,
We’re looking forward to seeing you this weekend!
We hope to see you outside the BC NDP Convention at the Victoria Conference Centre on Saturday morning at 10 AM. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers and plenty of folks to raise our voices calling on the party to end fracking. Thanks for being there and please feel free to invite a friend.
Together we can show provincial government leaders that British Columbians expect them to do everything it takes to keep us safe. That means phasing out fossil fuel extraction and supporting workers and communities who are left in its wake!
For the climate,
Peter McCartney Climate Campaigner
Wilderness Committee
P.S....
Big moves for biodiversity in BC
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 November 2023 17:37
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[evoz] Social Justice Film Night
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 November 2023 10:00
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Our Social Justice Film Night will be presenting two on Palestine.
5:30pm Thursday, Nov. 16Cedar Shores - 75 Gorge Rd WestIn the Recreation Bldg.
Smokey on Bun & Beverages will be served @ 5:30pmFilms start @ 7pm
"Weaponising Water in Palestine"
Gaza’s only freshwater source, the Coastal Aquifer, cannot meet demand and has been depleted by over-extraction and contaminated by sewage. Rising temperatures and sea levels are only making life more difficult, while in Israel, residents do not have to worry about their taps running dry.
The next wave of privatization attacks is upon us
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- Published on Tuesday, 14 November 2023 15:34
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Dear Paov,
At the BC Health Coalition, we spent more than a decade engaged in the Cambie Case, which was finally settled this year. Together, we successfully defended our public healthcare system from those who sought to create preferential access based on the ability to pay.
Having lost the legal battle for private financing, privatization proponents now have a refreshed strategy: private delivery. While private providers have long been part of our health care system, we're seeing a fresh wave of privatization as investor-driven corporate providers aggressively lobby provinces for a greater role in healthcare delivery within our publicly funded system.
We’re pushing back. Join the BC Health Coalition on November 20, from 7:00pm - 9:00pm, for an in-person Townhall in Vancouver. Click here for more information on the event and to secure your spot.
There is money to be made through government contracts, and investor-owned companies are skilled at squeezing out profits from the public purse.
But the evidence is quite clear on
contracting healthcare to the private sector: private delivery costs
more to the public, does...
Read more: The next wave of privatization attacks is upon us
West Coasts Marine Team is up to the
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- Published on Thursday, 09 November 2023 15:02
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One week left to join our postcard action
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- Published on Wednesday, 08 November 2023 13:23
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Paov,
Want to show your support for funding reform of BC’s contracted long-term care sector?
Health Minister Adrian Dix has said his ministry is developing a new funding model that ensures greater accountability in the contracted long-term care sector. We’ve launched a postcard action to send a strong message that the public supports these plans for funding reform.
If you are a family member, worker, senior or a concerned individual, go to BetterCareForSeniors.ca to request a free postcard to mail in to Minister Dix.
Sign up for a postcard today!Once you sign up, you will receive a free specially designed postcard. Write your personal story or your concerns about seniors care on the postcard. No postage is required, you can just drop it in the mailbox.
At our Campaign Call last week, the Seniors Advocate spoke on the need for improved accuracy and transparency in the monitoring and...
Interconnected problems need interconnected solutions
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 November 2023 12:02
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Read more: Interconnected problems need interconnected solutions
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- Published on Tuesday, 07 November 2023 10:06
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Premier must abandon LNG plans
Hi Paov,
Ever since the BC NDP government took power, we’ve called out the incompatibility of their climate plan with proposals for new liquefied natural gas (LNG) plants. For years, we’ve done media interviews and written reports about how their math just doesn’t add up.
Now let’s show them we’re willing to take to the streets over it.
The BC NDP is having its convention in Victoria Nov. 17 to 19, and Frack Free BC will be there — inside and out — to convince them to finally take a stance against fossil fuel expansion.
On Saturday, Nov. 18, at 10 AM outside the Victoria Conference Centre, we’ll rally to demand Premier David Eby end fracking and abandon BC’s plans for LNG. Can you join us?
Another massive LNG plant on the West Coast?
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- Published on Saturday, 04 November 2023 10:06
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Ksi Lisims LNG is almost as big as LNG Canada
Hi Paov,
BC’s greenhouse gas emissions are slowly falling, but in 2025 that downward trend will slow or even halt as the LNG Canada facility in Kitimat starts operations, preventing the province from meeting its climate commitments.
Ksi Lisims LNG is a proposal in Nisga’a territory to liquefy almost as much gas as LNG Canada.
With climate disasters pummeling our communities, it’s hard to believe the BC Environmental Assessment Office (BCEAO) is considering making the problem even worse. Let them know you won’t stand for it.
Backers of the project want to use hydroelectricity to liquefy the gas but that will only happen if BC Hydro — and its ratepayers — build it a brand new transmission line. Even then, the fracking required to fill it will make the facility among the province’s worst polluters.
While the...
Ocean conservation is climate action, Paov
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- Published on Thursday, 02 November 2023 12:02
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Stick up for public health care
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- Published on Thursday, 02 November 2023 09:00
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Dear Paov,
We're calling all advocates of public health care - health care workers, patients, seniors, researchers, and the public - to stick together for health care solutions, not privatization.
Our health care system is in crisis. We’re in urgent need of reform, innovation, and brave conversations about what the future must look like for public health care. While some are ready to give up on public health care, we think it’s time we invest in bold public solutions that can improve quality and access for everyone.
Join us in Vancouver for an in-person Townhall Meeting on November 20, from 7:00pm - 9:00pm at SFU Harbour Centre. Go to bchealthcoalition.ca/stickuptownhall to register and secure your spot today.
Register Now!We have decades of evidence and the wisdom of frontline healthcare workers pointing us in the right direction. At the Townhall, we will hear about the many possibilities for improving access and quality of health care within...
Clean up the toxic Tulsequah Chief Mine
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- Published on Saturday, 28 October 2023 10:05
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Stop the mine pollution in the Taku River
Hi Paov,
It's time for the BC government to keep their promise and clean up the toxic Tulsequah Chief mine.
The Tulsequah Chief mine in Northern BC, near Alaska, is right next to the pristine Take River, teeming with biodiversity. The mine has been flooding the Taku River with toxic run-off for over six decades. The Taku River is home to many species of salmon, vital to the ecosystem and to many species that rely on them.
In 2015, the BC government promised to clean up the mine. Yet eight years later its pollution continues unabated. We must demand they clean up this toxic problem.
The Taku’s annual salmon runs can top two million wild fish, including chinook, coho, sockeye, chum and pink salmon. The acid mine drainage stemming from the Tulsequah Chief mine is laced with toxic metals such as lead and copper that can inhibit the...
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