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❄️ A holiday e-card for you, Paov
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- Published on Friday, 22 December 2023 09:39
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An action-packed end to 2023
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 December 2023 17:34
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Nature cant wait — act now for 202
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 December 2023 16:54
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A better future for the environment is possible
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 December 2023 11:32
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Speak up Canadas oil and gas emi
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- Published on Thursday, 14 December 2023 17:25
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At the end of this year, support us with a monthly donation
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- Published on Tuesday, 12 December 2023 10:04
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Dear Paov --
We've been busy! Over the last year, we have supported national partners in pushing for universal Pharmacare, organized a public call with B.C.'s Seniors Advocate to highlight the failures of for-profit long-term care operators to deliver care, sent 2,000 postcards to B.C.'s Minister of Health to show our support in creating an accountable funding model for contracted long-term care, and spoken out against those who seek to push profit-driven health care delivery.
The best way to support this ongoing work is by becoming a sustaining monthly donor of the BC Health Coalition.
Will you become a sustaining monthly donor via credit card by clicking on the button below? Be sure to select "Monthly" in the amount section at the top of the page so your donation occurs monthly.
Become a monthly donorIf you would prefer to become a monthly donor by direct deposit, please download the donation form HERE and mail it in along with a...
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[evoz] Social Justice Film Night
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- Published on Saturday, 09 December 2023 10:01
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Hi friends,
Social Justice Film Night will be presenting
"INTO CUBA"
Victoria Friends of Cuba Committee's solidarity trip to Cuba
5:30pm Thursday, Dec. 14Cedar Shores - 75 Gorge Rd WestIn the Recreation Bldg.
Kabobs & Beverages will be...
Together, we reflect nature's resilience
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- Published on Thursday, 07 December 2023 15:03
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Our thank you gift to you
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 December 2023 09:41
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Paov,
Two weeks ago, our members and supporters of public health care showed up at the Vancouver event of the Canadian Medical Association's Public-Private Health Care series wearing the "I stick up for PUBLIC healthcare" stickers below.
If you weren't able to make it in person to the CMA event to get your sticker, we'd love to send you one! As a token of our gratitude to public health care supporters, we're mailing free stickers to anyone who signs up using the button below.
Click here to get your stickerIf you weren't able to join our delegation at the CMA event, you can still take action by sending a message to the CMA asking them to choose leadership that is rooted in evidence and recommits to the improved public health care system...
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
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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...
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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...
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[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,
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.
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