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Join us in June for our biggest anti-fracking gathering ever
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- Published on Thursday, 11 April 2024 17:04
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Forward! For a Frack Free Future
Hi Paov,
From the north coast to the Kootenays, people from all over British Columbia are working in their communities, and on their territories, to stop the gas industry from undoing our efforts to reduce climate pollution.
Now for the first time, activists across the province are gathering in Vancouver to build relationships, learn new skills and deepen our understanding of the fight against fracking and liquefied natural gas (LNG).
Will you...
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[evoz] Save the date: Cafe Simpatico April 26
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- Published on Thursday, 11 April 2024 10:46
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presents
Cafe Simpatico Friday, April 26 - doors 7 pm, 7:30 pm
Mining in the Andes: An Indigenous Struggle
A talk by anthropologist and author Peter GoseIn the last 30 years, Indigenous anti-mining struggles in the Andes have been widespread and highly visible. Previously, however, artisanal mining was integrated into the Indigenous agrarian world and its ritual relations to the land. This talk sheds light on that radical reversal to better understand contemporary anti-extractivist struggles in Peru and Bolivia.
Everyone is welcome! Refreshments include Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations gratefully accepted.
Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association 1923 Fernwood Road
Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC)
www.victoriacasc.org https://www.facebook.com/vcasc/
Lunch n' Learn: It's time to end extra-billing
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- Published on Monday, 08 April 2024 15:25
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We're excited to invite you to the second session of Visions & Solutions, a BC Health Coalition Lunch n' Learn series.
What: A lunchtime conversation about
extra-billing in BC health care
When:
Tuesday, April 16 from 12:00-1:00 pm PT
Where:
Online via Zoom (registration
required)
In this second session of Visions and Solutions, we’ll learn about the current state of unlawful extra-billing in BC, its impact on our health system, and what it’s going to take to end our reliance on for-profit companies that undermine our health care system.
With the cost of living at an all-time high and our health care costs also on the rise, it’s time for BC to put an end to illegal extra-billing.
But the privatization of health care services has expanded in BC over the last seven years. For-profit health care companies are on the rise and continue unlawful extra-billing practices. Recent numbers reported by Health Canada show that in 2021-22, BC saw $18 million in out of pocket charges to patients for medically necessary services that should be accessible...
Thank You to BC's first Seniors Advocate
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- Published on Thursday, 04 April 2024 13:02
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The BC Health Coalition Steering Committee extends our best wishes and deepest thanks to Isobel Mackenzie after 10 years as British Columbia's first Seniors Advocate.
Dear Ms. Mackenzie,
We join with seniors, their loved ones, service providers, health care workers, and advocates across the province to recognize the significant mark you have made in BC in your time as our first Seniors Advocate.
The BC Health Coalition is a democratic, non-partisan, and consensus-based community of over 800,000 individuals and organizations that span the province of British Columbia. Over ten years ago, our Coalition participated in a community-driven effort to successfully advocate for the creation of the Office of the Seniors Advocate. The Seniors Advocate Act, passed in 2013, was a milestone for systemic advocacy for seniors, raising the public’s expectation for change.
You have met these expectations and set a high bar for those who will follow after you.
Throughout your ten years as Seniors Advocate, we have enjoyed a positive working relationship with you. We commend the ways you prioritized hearing directly from seniors and the public. Your work has been a unifying force for all working to improve...
Happening today! Community-driven primary care solutions
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- Published on Tuesday, 02 April 2024 08:04
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Join us for lunch?
There's still time to register for today's lunchtime conversation about community-driven primary care solutions!
Join us for an hour of virtual learning. This session will include a panel of speakers and a moderated Q&A.
What: A lunchtime conversation about
community-driven primary care
solutions
When: Tuesday, April 2 from
12:00-1:00 pm PT
Where: Online via Zoom (registration
required)
How to join
Here are some detailed instructions for how to join via Zoom videoconference:
- Register via the Zoom webpage to receive a link to join by email. Click here to register.
- You must join the meeting using the link you received from Zoom when you registered. We will be re-sending confirmation emails this morning.
- To search for your registration details in your email inbox, look for an email from Zoom (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with this subject line - Lunch n' Learn: Community-driven primary care solutions Confirmation
- You may also listen in by phone by dialing +1 778 907 2071. Enter Meeting ID 821 9270 6067 when prompted.
If you encounter any technical difficulties or are unable to
join us by Zoom,...
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[evoz] Tomorrow: Cafe Simpatico March 29
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- Published on Thursday, 28 March 2024 11:50
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Tomorrow, Friday, March 29, music* at 7 pm, presentation 7:30 pm. * Piano music by Marcel, a young UJAM musician.
Ilegal Election of El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele
Presentation by Francisco Canjura, a Salvadoran who is a journalism grad from Thompson Rivers University, was an international election observer in the 2014 El Salvador Presidential Election, and is a current member of the Frente Intercontinental del Faribundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).
Bring your comments and questions to this discussion about recent events in Central America's smallest and most densely populated country. Also, we remember Archbishop Oscar Romero, now known as Saint Oscar Romero, who was assassinated on March 24, 1980 in San Salvador.
Doors open at 7 pm; presentation at 7:30 pm.Refreshments include Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations are gratefully accepted.
Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association1923 Fernwood Rd, Victoria BC
Sponsored by Victoria Central America Support Committee (CASC)
www.victoriacasc.org https://www.facebook.com/vcasc/
30x30: the opportunities and the challenges
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- Published on Wednesday, 27 March 2024 14:03
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The best chance for conservation and climate justice!
Dear Paov,
2023 was the hottest year ever recorded. 2024 is following suit. Over the past few decades, thousands of species have been, and continue to be, pushed towards extinction globally.
It's a grim picture, but hope remains: a wave of conservation initiatives, aimed at countering the twin crises of biodiversity loss and climate change, is gaining momentum worldwide.
From rallies in the streets to promises from national governments, support for 30x30 —...
[evoz] Reminder: Cafe Simpatico March 29
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- Published on Monday, 25 March 2024 11:37
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This Friday, March 29, music at 7 pm, presentation 7:30 pm.
Ilegal Election of El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele
Presentation by Francisco Canjura, a Salvadoran who is a journalism grad from Thompson Rivers University, was an international election observer in the 2014 El Salvador Presidential Election, and is a current member of the Frente Intercontinental del Faribundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN).
Bring your comments and questions to this discussion about recent events in Central America's smallest and most densely populated country. Also, we remember Archbishop Oscar Romero, now known as Saint Oscar Romero, who was assassinated on March 24, 1980 in San Salvador.
Doors open at 7 pm; presentation at 7:30 pm.Refreshments include Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations are gratefully accepted.
Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association1923 Fernwood Rd, Victoria BC
Sponsored by Victoria Central America Support Committee (CASC)
www.victoriacasc.org https://www.facebook.com/vcasc/
Whats up with old-growth forests?
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- Published on Saturday, 23 March 2024 12:05
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Cut through the noise on old-growth forests
Hi Paov,
When it comes to the fight to protect old-growth forests in B.C., the past few years have been busy ones.
Public reviews, reports and processes, endless promises and commitments, new maps and studies, and through it all a heartbreaking constant: the ongoing destruction of some of the most iconic ancient forests in the world.
Speak up to stop biodiversity loss
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:03
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Let’s ensure Canada creates a strong Biodiversity Strategy
Hi Paov,
We made history at the UN Biodiversity Conference in 2022! We inspired the Kunming-Montréal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) — a historic plan to stop nature loss once and for all.
As part of this plan, Canada committed to create a National Biodiversity Strategy to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, and fully recover nature by 2050.
The federal government has started working with provinces, conservation organizations and Indigenous knowledge-holders. But they are behind schedule and time is running out for nature.
A huge win for migratory bird protection
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 March 2024 15:33
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We won! You made this happen!
Hi Paov,
Last year, we were in court fighting to protect the habitat of a small but mighty threatened bird, the marbled murrelet. And guess what — we won!
This court case would not have happened without your action. Thank you!
In the summer of 2021, members of the public told us about marbled murrelets flying overhead in Ada’itsx (Fairy Creek). This prompted us to hire expert Bernard Schroeder to investigate potential nesting sites of these threatened seabirds. He found over 300 detections of the bird atop an old-growth forest at risk of being logged.
We sprung to action!...
[evoz] Social Justice Film Nights
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 March 2024 14:23
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Social Justice Film Nights Presents 2 shorts on PALESTINE
"THE ILLUSION OF AID IN GAZA”&"ARE U.S. & E.U. PLANS TO SEND SUPPLIES TO GAZA CREDIBLE?”
THURSDAY MARCH 21Cedar Shores 75 Gorge Rd WestRecreation Bldg.
5:30 pm Sautééd Smokies, Veggies & Beverages will be served at $10Film Starts at 7:00 pm
"THE ILLUSION OF AID IN GAZA" - The United States' airdrops of aid into Gaza are a textbook case of cognitive dissonance on the part of the US administration - dropping food while continuing to send Israel bombs with which to pulverise Gaza. And the gulf between what’s happening on the ground and the mainstream media’s reportage continues to widen.
"ARE U.S. & E.U. PLANS TO SEND SUPPLIES TO GAZA CREDIBLE?" - As Gaza's people face starvation from...
[evoz] Cafe Simpatico March 29
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 March 2024 13:13
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El Salvador: Update and AnalysisPresentation by Francisco Canjura, a Salvadoran who was a 2014 election observer and has returned to El Salvador on several occasions. Bring your comments and questions to this discussion about recent events in Central America's smallest and most densely populated country. Also, we remember Archbishop Oscar Romero, now known as Saint Oscar Romero, who was assassinated on March 24, 1980 in San Salvador. Doors open and music at 7 pm: presentation at 7:30 pm.Everyone is welcome! Refreshments include fair trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations are appreciated. Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association 1923 Fernwood Road
Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC)
www.victoriacasc.org https://www.facebook.com/vcasc/
Event: Lets get pesticides out of fo
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- Published on Tuesday, 05 March 2024 17:04
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Come chat about glyphosate’s impacts on biodiversity and how to stop it
Hi Paov,
We are thrilled to announce our tour Let's get pesticides out of forests, in partnership with Awi'nakola Foundation. Come check out our upcoming events on Vancouver Island — one in Victoria and another in Alert Bay.
Both will include incredible panelists discussing the impacts of glyphosate — the ingredient in Roundup — on wilderness, wildlife and Indigenous food and medicinal plants.
Glyphosate is sprayed over re-growing forests across B.C. by logging companies — harming biodiversity, human health and Indigenous food sovereignty. Come learn from scientists and Indigenous leaders about its use and how we can act together and stop it.
Victoria event detailsFind out our plans to end fracking in 2024
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- Published on Saturday, 02 March 2024 10:06
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Join our next Frack Free BC organizing call
It’s been a few months since Frack Free BC crashed the BC NDP convention with a clear message: climate action means ending fracking. We rallied outside while our friends nearly passed a resolution inside. Our allies even held a party to rival the Premier’s celebration across the hall. Since then, we’ve been resting up and strategizing for the year ahead.
Now we’re ready to share our plans to put fracking on the province’s radar in the leadup to the next provincial election.
RSVP HERE
Join our next organizing call on March 13...
Tell BC: Stop opposing Nuchatlaht title
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- Published on Saturday, 24 February 2024 10:09
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Denying First Nations title is unacceptable
Hi Paov,
In a few weeks, lawyers for the Nuchatlaht First Nation will be back in the Supreme Court, facing off against British Columbia, whose lawyers will continue to deny the Nation’s title to its territory on Nootka Island.
This shameful stance, which flies in the face of B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), and is inconsistent with reconciliation. And the BC NDP government could put a stop to it any time.
Eby keep your promise
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 February 2024 17:04
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Tell B.C. to follow through on a biodiversity law
Hi Paov,
At the end of January, the B.C. government wrapped up the public engagement process for its draft Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Framework. This draft framework references a new biodiversity law to be co-developed with First Nations, and sets ecosystem health and biodiversity standards for all sectors to adhere to. Imagine finally holding industry to a standard when it comes to biodiversity protection!
However, it fails to commit to a strong timeline for implementing the law.
Over the past 10...
[evoz] Social Justice Film Night
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- Published on Wednesday, 21 February 2024 12:01
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Social Justice Film Night Presents:
"CUBA in a BOTTLE"
[evoz] This Friday: Cafe Simpatico February 23
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- Published on Tuesday, 20 February 2024 11:45
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Central America Support Committee
presents
Cafe Simpatico
Friday, February 23, 2024
Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association 1923 Fernwood Road Doors open at 7:00 PM: Program at 7:30 PM.
Join us this Friday at Cafe Simpatico for a film screening of La Tumba Mambi.
The docu-fiction La Tumba Mambi is the result of a long collaboration between University of Victoria anthropologist Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier, Cuban DJ Jigüe, and the members of the Tumba Francesa La Caridad de Oriente, a traditional cultural group located in Santiago de Cuba. Shot entirely in Eastern Cuba and edited in Havana over a period of more than 6 years, this short-length film of 27 minutes speaks to how friendship can make things happen in spite of daily life challenges.
Filmmaker and professor, Alexandrine Boudreault -Fournier will be present to discuss the film and answer questions.
Everyone is welcome! Refreshments including Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations are appreciated.
Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC)
www.victoriacasc.org https://www.facebook.com/vcasc/
All hands on deck for pharmacare!
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- Published on Thursday, 15 February 2024 11:19
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Our friends at the Council of Canadians have issued an "all hands on deck" call after finding out that pharmacare legisilation might be coming as early as next week.
Can you call your MP and target ministers to ask them to support a universal pharmacare program?
Nik Barry-Shaw reports back in his message below from lobby meetings in Ottawa - where MPs shared how the Liberal caucus is divided about supporting a universal program.
With your help, we can bring the Liberal caucus on board and prevent further delays on this historic win.
Dear friends,
I’m writing to you from Parliament Hill,
where I have just learned that pharmacare legislation could be coming
sooner than expected – as early as next week. We also heard disturbing
indications the Liberal government could go back on their commitment
to a drug plan that covers all Canadians, because they think voters
don’t care. So...
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