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By Linda Nowlan and the norms and notions of what just is isn t always just-ice..
Who didn’t have a shiver running down their spine listening to U.S. Youth Inauguration poet Amanda Gorman’s poem, “The Hill We Climb”? I know I did. In part, because I know that when it comes to climate change, we’re a long way off from justice. Her poem inspired the title of the UBC Sustainability Initiative’s first Climate Justice free webinar coming up on Friday (March 5): Just Is ≠ Justice.
The notion of climate justice confronts the fact that marginalized people the world over suffer from environmental damage they had no part in creating.
The courts rejected BC s bid to force places of worship to follow health
orders. Double standard?
Amanda Follett Hosgood lives and writes amidst the stunning mountains and rivers of Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Twitter @amandajfollett. SHARES The same judge who refused to grant an injunction against churches defying COVID-19 health orders granted one against Vancouver’s Crab Park homeless camp in June 2020.
Photo by Jonathan Hayward, the Canadian Press.
Why did the BC Supreme Court refuse to issue an injunction ordering churches to stop flouting COVID-19 orders while regularly agreeing to industry requests for injunctions to use against protesters?
NDP government taking ‘regressive, conservative’ position on citizens’ charter rights, say critics.
Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria and the author of
All Together Healthy (Douglas & McIntyre, 2018). Find him on Twitter or reach him at
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Premier Doug Ford photo by Bruce Reeve via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 2.0. Premier John Horgan photo via Province of BC Flickr.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford has found an ally in British Columbia’s NDP government in his legal battle to limit municipal voting rights.
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Human-centred approach needed to ensure all Canadians have access to justice: lawyer
A British Columbia lawyer and chair of the province s online Civil Resolution Tribunal, says implementing a human-centred approach is key if Canada s justice system is to be truly accessible to all.
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Shannon Salter chairs BC s online Civil Resolution Tribunal, says technology is only part of the solution
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Posted: Jan 26, 2021 8:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 26
Shannon Salter, chair of the Civil Resolution Tribunal, will hold a Zoom talk Tuesday about increasing access to the Canadian justice system. The talk begins at 7 p.m., and is being hosted by Lakehead University.(Lakehead University/Provided)