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Gidimt'en Drill Site Occupation Continues!
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- Published on Friday, 01 October 2021 13:00
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State of BC Health
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- Published on Thursday, 30 September 2021 07:03
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Your monthly update from the BC Health Coalition
NATIONAL DAY FOR TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
A call to learn, listen, reflect, and
act
September 30, 2021 marks the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. We encourage you to take this call to action by commemorating and honouring Indigenous Survivors of residential schools, their families, and the Missing Children that never returned home from residential schools. With that in mind, we have compiled a list of resources and events that you can use in your own learning, discussion, and action.
We also acknowledge that the legacies of racism and colonialism go far beyond residential schools and continue to impact Indigenous people today. The In Plain Sight report released just last year clearly demonstrated the continuing effects of anti-Indigenous racism in the BC health care system. It is...
Take action for Truth and Reconciliation
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- Published on Wednesday, 29 September 2021 14:00
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Back Away - Kansas-lee and The Comfortably Sauvage (
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 September 2021 12:54
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[bc-can] Invitation to the Launch of the West Coast Climate Action Network, Tuesday October 5th, 7pm
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 September 2021 12:50
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Greetings!We invite you to join us at the Public Launch of the West Coast Climate Action Network on Tuesday October 5th, at 7pm.
Join us as we work to promote and support the work of climate action groups all across BC, and to urge more rapid and urgent climate action, while working to centre Indigenous and other under-represented voices. The climate justice movement is rapidly growing, and the need for collaboration and solidarity has never been greater. #WeCanDoMoreTogether #WeCanJustTransition
Our Launch will be Live-streamed on YouTube. To register, click here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/launch-of-the-west-coast-climate-action-network-tickets-178236328657 You can also watch on Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/WEClimateAction/
With speakers, musicians and poets:• Christine Lowther, widely published Poet Laureate of Tofino.• Connie Larochelle, WE-CAN Chair, from the Beaver Clan, Haisla First Nation. • Dan Mangan, two-time Juno Award musician and songwriter. • Druv Kent, India-born, Singapore-based singer and songwriter.• Grand Chief Philip Stewart, President of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, Grand Chief of the Okanagan Nation.• Guy Dauncey, author, co-founder of the West Coast Climate Action Network.• Katia Bannister, youth activist, poet, leader of the Cowichan Valley Earth Guardians.• Seth Klein, author of A Good War: Mobilizing Canada...
REMATRIATION - Official Trailer
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 September 2021 12:50
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Wet'suwet'en Occupy CGL Drill Site
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- Published on Tuesday, 28 September 2021 12:05
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Gidimt'en Checkpoint Makes Urgent Call for Support
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- Published on Monday, 27 September 2021 12:52
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Read more: Gidimt'en Checkpoint Makes Urgent Call for Support
Let's correct the Premier
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- Published on Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:24
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Heres what BC needs to do to fight climate change
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- Published on Thursday, 23 September 2021 09:00
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[evoz] Correction: Cafe Simpatico - Friday, Sep 24, 7pm
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- Published on Wednesday, 22 September 2021 11:41
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Holding Canadian Mining Companies Accountable
for Human Rights Violations
Friday, September 24, 2021 at 07:00 PM Pacific Time
Join
Zoom Meeting by
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Meeting ID: 870 7832 4527 Passcode: 50021
Matt Eisenbrandt is the Victoria-based Director of Transnational Investigations for CFM Lawyers, a class action law firm that has brought some of Canada’s most important lawsuits on behalf of victims against Canadian mining companies for alleged human rights abuses connected to their overseas operations.
Matt will talk about two of these cases:
CFM represented four Guatemalans who were shot by mine security personnel while protesting the presence of Tahoe Resources’ silver mine, now owned by Vancouver-based Pan American Silver.
CFM represented a group of Eritrean refugees who alleged they were forced labourers at the Bisha gold and copper mine in Eritrea, then owned by Nevsun Resources, also based in Vancouver.
Matt will discuss the process of putting these cases together, challenges in litigating them, and some lessons learned from the experiences.
[evoz] Reminder: Cafe Simpatico, Sep 24, on Zoom
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- Published on Wednesday, 22 September 2021 10:43
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Holding Canadian Mining Companies Accountable
for Human Rights Violations and Crimes
Friday, September 24, 2021 at 07:00 PM Pacific Time
Join
Zoom Meeting by
clicking here
Meeting ID: 870 7832 4527 Passcode: 50021
Matt
Eisenbrandt is the Victoria-based Director of Transnational
Investigations for CFM Lawyers, a class action law firm that has
brought some of Canada’s most important lawsuits on behalf of
victims against Canadian mining companies for alleged human rights
abuses connected to their overseas operations.
Matt will talk about two of these cases:
CFM represented four Guatemalans who were shot by mine security personnel while protesting the presence of Tahoe Resources’ silver mine, owned by Pan American Silver, based in Vancouver.
CFM represented a group of Eritrean refugees who alleged they were forced labourers at the Bisha gold and silver mine in Eritrea, operated by Nevsun Resources, also based in Vancouver.
Matt will discuss the process of putting these cases...
The Amazon rainforest is at its tipping point
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- Published on Sunday, 19 September 2021 16:25
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The Amazon rainforest – the lungs of the planet – is hanging on a knife’s edge.
New science shows that we’re only two percent away from hitting the tipping point where the Amazon could turn from a lush rainforest to a dry grassland.
Your best way to fight climate change this week
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- Published on Saturday, 18 September 2021 08:59
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Vote in a government committed to improving public health care
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- Published on Friday, 17 September 2021 08:01
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Dear Paov --
Election Day on Monday, September 20 is almost here. If you are unsure about your riding, where to vote, or COVID-19 protocols for voting, you can find that information on the Elections Canada website HERE.
Over the last whirlwind month, the BCHC has been busy making seniors' care and specifically long-term care an election priority. We have partnered with provincial Health Coalitions across the country calling on all the parties to set real national standards for long-term care in legislation or provincial/territorial funding. In addition, we have been part of a broad Canadian coalition of labour calling on the same parties to make reform of long-term care a priority including improved working conditions, living conditions, and staffing levels. We even did a deep dive webinar on Motion 77 and the accompanying Parliamentary Budget Officer's report, which set out key points and the funding levels required for reforms in long-term care.
On September 13, we partnered with the Jewish Seniors
Alliance, Marpole Oakridge Family Place, South Vancouver...
Read more: Vote in a government committed to improving public health care
Let's save the last old-growth forests
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- Published on Thursday, 16 September 2021 16:59
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Vote like our future depends on it
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- Published on Wednesday, 15 September 2021 17:17
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Logging begins at Heli camp; we need support
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- Published on Tuesday, 14 September 2021 14:46
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old growth
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- Published on Tuesday, 14 September 2021 12:54
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A mass movement has awoken that cannot be quieted
In August we delivered your old growth petition with over 150,000 signatures. The signatories spanned every single riding across B.C. – as well as the rest of Canada and around the world. The petition has gained almost 25,000 signatures since then.
The leader of the B.C. Green party, Sonia Furstenau, and another Greens politician, Adam Olsen, accepted the petition at the B.C. Legislature and promised to bring it to the table when the next session begins this October.
Protecting the last old growth forests in B.C. has undeniably become a national and international issue. In the heat of the Canadian federal election happening right now, candidates are being sure to emphasize old growth protection in their platforms [1]. Parties are making promises to allocate federal funds to long term protection. And while we’ve seen election promises broken before, it is still a reflection of the local and international public pressure that has put this issue on the map.
On the provincial level, almost every MLA office has been flooded with demands from their constituents to immediately defer logging in at-risk old growth. So much so that the B.C. NDP is pulling in staff members from other ministries to make up for their delay and get to work to resolve this crisis.
Message from Elders for Ancient Trees
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- Published on Friday, 10 September 2021 12:54
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Victoria: Forest Friday Sep 10, 4 - 6 pm: WE Serve+ProtectRCMP Admin building, Topaz & Blanshard. Let's make the Friday action outside the RCMP HQ loud and large!!
From the Elders for Ancient Trees newsletter:
The last two days have been horrendous on the front lines at Fairy Creek. Brutal RCMP and Teal Jones actions have overrun all the long-standing camps and industry is poised to start logging. Food, equipment, personal supplies are being stolen. Twenty-three people have already been arrested today.From Elders Jan and Bill Marshall who went up yesterday:
Jan and I rushed up to Fairy Creek today to answer a call for reinforcements. We were too late: dozens of RCMP officers were able to overcome about 100 peaceful protesters and allow Teal Jones logging and road building equipment to enter.
We spent an emotional couple of hours with Elder Bill Jones, the land defenders and the forest protectors, hearing about how all the camps had been smashed by the RCMP, personal possessions taken or destroyed and discussing new tactics and next steps. We were privileged to be part of an Indigenous-led healing circle which once again moved us to consider how closely we are linked to each other, these majestic forests and nature.
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- [bc-can] TMX Tree-sitter Timothy in danger right now, in Burnaby
- We need huge numbers now
- We have One Earth. You have One Vote.
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