Vaughn Palmer: B C funds LNG pipeline opponents as construction stalls vancouversun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from vancouversun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
How To Fight Climate Change: Take The Government To Court
Several lawsuits currently making their way through the legal system aim to establish access to a healthy environment as a human right. Fatima Syed Updated
(Illustration: Vivian Rosas)
Jacqueline Wilson is hyperaware of the growing frustration among young people and members of First Nations. A lawyer with the legal aid clinic Canadian Environmental Law Association, she has watched over the past five years as they’ve tried everything to get government leaders and policy-makers to scale up climate action. They’ve signed petitions. They’ve attended committee meetings. They’ve started social media movements, and even taken to the streets to protest. Nothing has worked.
This Is Where Canada Dumps Tons Of Its Toxic Waste, Tailings Ponds—And Racism chatelaine.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from chatelaine.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
This Mural Tells a Beautiful Tale of Cultural Solidarity. But Did It Really Happen?
After a Tyee piece referenced the artwork, the story it depicted was called into question. The result? Sifting through conflicting histories.
Christopher Cheung reports on urban issues for The Tyee. Follow him on Twitter at @bychrischeung. SHARES The mural in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant, titled
Taike-Sye’yə from a Punjabi word roughly meaning cousin and a hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ word for friend, depicts Indigenous paddlers delivering food and supplies to the passengers of the Komagata Maru in 1914. The historicity of the story has been questioned.
How the Wet’suwet’en Solidarity Actions Changed Their Lives
A year later, three Indigenous youth behind the 2020 BC legislature protests say the real work still lies ahead.
Emily Fagan is a Victoria-based freelance journalist passionate about reporting on social issues. You can find her work in Vice, the CBC, and Ricochet, or follow her on Twitter @thatemfagan. SHARES A year after he first took a stand on the steps of the BC legislature, Kolin Sutherland-Wilson and his wife are expecting their first child.
Photo by Rodney Mitchell.
It was the first week of Kolin Sutherland-Wilson’s final semester at the University of Victoria. But he wasn’t there. Instead, on a chilly January morning in 2020, he sat alone on the front steps of the British Columbia legislature, dressed warmly and holding signs that called on provincial leaders to stand with the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs opposing the Coastal GasLink project in their traditional territ