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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...
"How to lead a House Meeting" Online Training
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- Published on Tuesday, 13 February 2024 10:40
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Paov --
Over the next two months, we're rebuilding a power movement for public health care - one conversation at a time. Are you ready to join us?
We're calling on supporters of public health care across the province to organize small group conversations - also called house meetings - with people in your networks.
These conversations help to unearth stories that call for change. They're also a way of meeting lots of concerned citizens who are prepared to put some energy towards making that change happen.
We're hosting an online training so you can lean more be confident about taking part in this effort.
Click here to registerWhat: "How to lead a House Meeting"
Training
Where: Virtual
event via Zoom
When: Thursday, February 15th,
from 1:00-2:00pm PST
If you're curious about how this classic organizing tool will help us build power and a put together people's health care platform, you can get caught up on our 2024 Organizing Strategy and Listening Campaign Kickoff here.
"How to Lead a House Meeting" Training
This one-hour...
CleanBC without LNG
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- Published on Wednesday, 07 February 2024 17:05
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Our latest publication does the math
Dear Paov,
One would think the provincial government would be concerned that its CleanBC climate plan has a fatal flaw, no? But apparently elected representatives and public servants alike seem convinced their new energy framework solves all its problems.
The truth: liquefied natural gas (LNG) will prevent B.C. from following through on its climate commitments. That is unless you and I stop it.
Our new report CleanBC or Fossil Fuels shows the province’s climate plan doesn’t prevent LNG from derailing all the work we’re doing to reduce carbon emissions.
Tens of thousands of new fracking wells in the northeast of the province would be required to fill the five LNG terminals proposed for the west coast — three of which already have all the permits they need to start construction. All that fossil fuel extraction...
What's your health care story?
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- Published on Tuesday, 06 February 2024 08:51
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Paov,
Will you join us tomorrow, February 7th, at 1pm on Zoom for our Listening Campaign Kick-off?
The member's meeting will present our organizing strategy as we head into a provincial election year, and it all starts with listening for stories. Your stories, your families' and friends' stories, your neighbours' and colleagues' stories - these are the building blocks of collective wisdom and action.
There's still time to register to receive the Zoom details in advance.
Click here to registerDuring the meeting, you'll get a chance to connect in small groups to exchange experiences with the health care system. We'll talk about ways you and people in your network can get be a part of people power for the public health care commitments we'll need in the years ahead.
BC Health Coalition General Meetings are open to all individual and organizational members. If you are unavailable at the time or are unable to join via Zoom, the recording will be posted on our website within one week.
Copy and paste this link...
[evoz] Save the Date: Cafe Simpatico Friday, Feb 23
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- Published on Monday, 05 February 2024 09:19
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presents
Cafe Simpatico
Friday, February 23, 2024
Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community Association 1923 Fernwood Road Doors open at 7:00 PM: music at 7:30 PM; presentation at 8:00 PM.
Join us in February 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 welcome.
Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC)
www.victoriacasc.org https://www.facebook.com/vcasc/
B.C. promised better old-growth forest
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- Published on Wednesday, 31 January 2024 17:03
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Forests fall as endangered species dwindle
Hi Paov,
Like many of you, I’ve been excited to read recent promises made by the governments of B.C. and Canada to protect wild nature, in partnership with First Nations.
But will remaining old-growth forests and other threatened ecosystems survive long enough to actually get protected? Not if you and I don’t take urgent action today.
B.C.'s Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship Nathan Cullen promised the province was doing everything it can to help the highly endangered spotted owl recover. But the evidence in the forests themselves tell a different story.
To say we've been shocked at what we've found out in the woods would be an understatement. You would think given the governments’ recent promises, the forest habitat that is needed to bring spotted owls back to healthy numbers would automatically have strong protections.
What we found on the ground is...
Register: Listening Campaign Kick-off
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- Published on Thursday, 25 January 2024 15:18
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Paov,
Canada's universal, public health care system was won by organized citizens - a generation who imagined a world where everyone would have access to the health care they need. Today, we see staffing and access issues across health care, and we know the most equity deserving groups are the least likely to find the care they need. To reimagine a healthy public system that truly leaves no one behind, we need to rebuild organized people power at the scale necessary to meet the challenge before us.
That's why we're launching a Listening Campaign. We know that a people's movement needs to be rooted in the stories of everyday people. And we know that everyday people are more than clients, patients, or customers. We hold the resources and imagination that are essential to get our public system back on track.
Join us on Wednesday, 7 February from 1-2:30pm for a virtual General Meeting to find out how you and your organization take part in this effort. Advance registration is required to receive Zoom details.
Read more: Register: Listening Campaign Kick-offEnd loopholes for big polluters
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 January 2024 14:37
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Scrub fossil fuel fingerprints from Canada’s oil and gas emissions cap
Hi Paov,
For over ten years, we’ve fought to put a lid on rising emissions from oil and gas — Canada’s most polluting sector.
Now’s our best chance to rein in pollution from the fossil fuel industry. Will you take it?
Late last year, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault announced he would place a cap on oil and gas emissions. But the framework he released is full of loopholes and doesn’t require the industry to do its fair share.
Fossil fuel lobbyists are asking for “flexibility” in the cap, which could let companies pay to cover 20 per cent of their obligations. This is despite the federal government already requiring them to do five to 10 per cent less than other businesses in Canada.
If we get this right, the oil and gas emissions cap could finally...
[evoz] This Friday: Cafe Simpatico Jan 26 with Raices Folklorico
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- Published on Wednesday, 24 January 2024 11:05
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Central America Support Committee
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Your monthly update from the BC Health Coalition
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- Published on Thursday, 18 January 2024 10:19
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Your January 2024 monthly update from
the
BC Health Coalition
UPDATE
Primary care out for corporate bid
In December, the Ministry of Health issued a “request for proposals” for 1.5 million virtual doctor or nurse practitioner visits in British Columbia, according to a report by CTV News in December. This large and extensive nature of this contract privileges large corporations like Telus Health, with a very short one-month period – much of it over the holidays – for providers to apply. Rather than investing in community-based primary health care capacity, the contract risks further corporatization of primary care. READ MORE.
ACTION
Community voice for long-term care funding reform cannot be ignored in favour of for-profit players
Over 1,600 seniors, their loved ones, workers, and other British Columbians mailed postcards...
3 weeks left for new biodiversity law
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- Published on Thursday, 11 January 2024 17:05
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Biodiversity needs legal protection
Hi Paov,
There are three weeks left in the BC government’s consultation process for their new biodiversity and ecosystem health framework, and we have to make sure it’s done right!
Imagine an endangered caribou herd finally receiving protection to prevent mining operations within their caribou calving grounds! This is what we are fighting for.
The BC government has been promising a biodiversity law for over three years. Now, this promise is finally taking shape with the biodiversity framework. This is our chance. Let’s bring this crucial law into reality and make it good.
It’s not just getting a law that’s important; it’s ensuring that it’s strong and effective with legal teeth. It must:
- Prioritize ecosystems and biodiversity above resource extraction,
- Be co-developed with First Nations,
- Protect species at risk and their habitat, and
- Build equity into the law to reward communities and people who protect biodiversity
[evoz] Cafe Simpatico Jan 26 with Raices Folklorico
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- Published on Wednesday, 10 January 2024 09:14
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Only a few hours left in 2023!
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- Published on Sunday, 31 December 2023 11:05
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Paov, dont miss the 2023 tax deadlin
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- Published on Saturday, 30 December 2023 09:02
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Nature cant wait a day longer…
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- Published on Friday, 29 December 2023 15:06
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How are we responding to environmental challenges?
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- Published on Wednesday, 27 December 2023 10:32
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Read more: How are we responding to environmental challenges?
❄️ A holiday e-card for you, Paov
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- Published on Friday, 22 December 2023 09:39
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- [evoz] Social Justice Film Night
- Together, we reflect nature's resilience
- Our thank you gift to you
- Your monthly update from the BC Health Coalition
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