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?
This live event features the salmon defender in conversation with coastal Indigenous leaders about our wild fish.
As the legislature reconvenes Monday, MLAs should pause and listen to the stories that these Indigenous lands are trying to tell us about our past.
And they should see Black History Month, which ends Sunday, as a time to reflect, reconsider and write new stories that align more closely with the moment we are living in. A moment of anti-racism. A moment of decolonization. A moment of accountability, when governments, institutions and people might draw together around a vision of the past and present what offers hope for a better future.
A thin green line with global impact. Latest in a series on creating a zero-carbon bioregion.
Robert McClure, executive director of InvestigateWest, is a veteran newspaper reporter, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and winner of the John B. Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. SHARES Familiar mood, different Vancouver. Protesters block an oil-carrying train in Vancouver, Wash. in 2016 part of a two-decade movement spanning Alaska to California.
Photo: Alex Milan Tracy, the Associated Press. [Editor’s note: This is part of a year-long occasional series of articles produced by InvestigateWest in partnership with The Tyee and other news organizations on shifting the Cascadia region to a zero-carbon economy.]