Adam Olsen: By framing the decision as a threat to property owners, the attorney general risks stoking public fear and scapegoating First Nations for a problem they did not create. #bcpoli
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The True Threat to Private Property? Ignoring Indigenous Title | The Tyee
The Cowichan decision isn’t an ‘unintended consequence.’ It’s the predictable result of generations of political inaction.
A B.C. Supreme Court justice has dismissed the Xatśūll First Nation’s request to overturn a provincial decision allowing the expansion of the Mount Polley mine’s tailings facility.
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Mount Polley Can Continue Tailings Expansion, BC Supreme Court Says | The Tyee
Xatśūll First Nation had applied to stop construction on the project.
The Tyee looks at three critical and vastly different means to store carbon in the West, examining how these ecosystems capture carbon, the restoration work they require and why Canada should take them seriously as solutions. Kristen de Jager reports.
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Want a Carbon Fix? It’s Closer than You Think | The Tyee
While Canada bets big on engineered tech, experts say nature still offers our best climate solutions.
Amazon workers in Delta have won the battle to unionize after the BC Labour Relations Board found the company committed “serious” offences to try and block an organizing drive. #bclab
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Amazon Workers Win a Union as Company’s Tactics Slammed | The Tyee
BC’s labour board grants automatic certification because of an unfair anti-union campaign. Amazon plans to fight.
“We found that people in high-income countries are willing to let go of some purchasing power, if they can be sure that it solves climate change and global poverty,” researcher Adrian Fabre said.
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People Around the World Support a Carbon Tax | The Tyee
Despite political pushback, a researcher finds people in affluent countries are open to paying the tax.
Alberta now leads the continent in a preventable childhood disease that leaves at least two of every 1,000 infections with severe intellectual disabilities, pneumonia or hearing loss. Or dead. Andrew Nikiforuk writes. #abpoli
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Danielle Smith, Queen of Measles | The Tyee
Alberta leads the continent in stoking the disease’s resurgence. The province’s former top doctor lays blame.
What makes a word Canadian? Sometimes it’s origin. “Demoviction.” “Renoviction.” “Trick or treat.” Sometimes it’s frequency. “Down island.” “Atmospheric river.” “Zombie fire.” These are just two of six types of Canadianisms, according to lexicographer Stefan Dollinger. 🇨🇦💬
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Do You Speak Canadian? | The Tyee
Keener linguists are compiling the latest English-language Canadianisms. What do their choices say about us?
Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam had already exceeded the maximum height authorized under its environmental certificate when it experienced a catastrophic failure more than a decade ago, lawyers for Xatśūll First Nation told B.C.’s Supreme Court this week.
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Mount Polley Dam Exceeded Authorized Height When It Failed: Lawyers | The Tyee
The Xatśūll First Nation wants BC to quash the mine’s expansion permits and start over.
Wildfires are making glaciers retreat faster, but not how you might think. Instead of the heat from the flames melting the glacier, the smoke is darkening the snow and ice. This causes the glacier surface to absorb more energy from the sun and melt faster. Kristen de Jager reports. 🗻🔥
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How Wildfires Are Speeding the Shrinking of BC’s Glaciers | The Tyee
Researchers with a new study on smoke and the ‘ice albedo effect’ are startled by the quick pace of melting.
The new right-wing alternative has launched with a remarkably inexperienced staff, despite the extra taxpayer money that comes with its new official party status. And with a hiring focus on political purity that’s quickly going to become a weakness. Paul Willcocks writes. #bcpoli
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OneBC’s Big Hiring Mistake | The Tyee
The new party chose political purity over experience as it recruited key staff.