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. SHARES Green MLA Adam Olsen says in his view, the BC government hasn’t changed much about how it relates to Indigenous people and approaches decisions about land. ‘They don’t want to share, and with that comes huge ramifications.’
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A month after losing a major case in the Supreme Court of British Columbia that found the provincial government had breached the Blueberry River First Nations’ treaty rights, Attorney General David Eby has announced the province will not appeal the decision.
The BC NDP's approach to protecting old-growth forests is unsettlingly reminiscent of the failed approaches to the management of past provincial governments, write Shauna Doll and Chris Genovali of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation.
VICTORIA Glen Fawkes, 61, of Campbell River, was an accomplished helicopter pilot, business owner, loving husband and father. Now he is the face of a petition calling for an independent review of psychiatric emergency services on Vancouver Island. “Late winter, early spring of 2020 there were a lot of stressors,” says Lisa Fawkes, Glen’s widow. Lisa got sick, a tree had fallen on the family home and COVID-19 happened. That caused Glen to experience insomnia and anxiety. That turned into paranoia, psychosis and delusions. “Neither he or I had any experience with the mental health-care system and we quickly found that it was very difficult to navigate,” says Lisa.