This kind of thing is decades late but good to see happening somewhere!

The future of electricity is wind and solar, new report says. Canada is lagging is behind | CBC News Renewable energy met all new demand for electricity in 2025, according to a new review of global power generation, preventing any increase in the burning of fossil fuels to produce electricity and hig...

Could someone pls tell the major projects office and PM Carney?? www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Celebrating the Nuchatlaht Nation’s historic victory

🎉 Historic win for Nuchatlaht Nation! On April 2, the BC Court of Appeal formally recognized the Nuchatlaht's Title to part of their territory on Nootka Island.

More in our latest blog ⬇️ #nuchatlaht #bcpoli

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Free plug-in solar panels to be rolled out to some households The technology is designed to be a simpler and more affordable way of benefiting from renewable energy

"Low-income households will get [free] plug-in solar panels to cut their energy bills, the Government has announced."

This is how you do a just transition.
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It bears repeating that historically, the #1 thing that keeps people alive in hard times and disasters is “the ability to play well with others”

Six women win 2026 Goldman prize, world’s top environmental award

Six women win 2026 Goldman prize, world’s top environmental award https://aje.news/d1zgl2

How much "loss" do fire departments report annually? Police? The armed forces? Roads? Schools? Solid waste collection? Wastewater treatment? Public health agencies?

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

Tuberculosis Outbreaks in Nunavik, Quebec Worsening While Province Ignores Calls to Declare Public Health Emergency New research finds lack of resources, language barriers persist in this Inuit region, where Red Cross has been called to help with TB.

Tuberculosis Outbreaks in Nunavik, Quebec Worsening While Province Ignores Calls to Declare Public Health Emergency

New research finds lack of resources, language barriers persist in this Inuit region, where Red Cross has been called to help with TB

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I don't like how warm it is right now

Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas Historical manifestations of structural racism and discrimination (SRD; e.g. 1930s redlining) have been linked to current adverse health outcomes, yet less is known about linkages to present-day ne...

Happy this paper at Journal of Urban Affairs is finally out :)

Planey AM, Taylor NL, Kumar AD, Cross RI, Neally S, Lewis JA, Luben TJ, Martin CL. "Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas"

An Open Letter to Members of the Legislative Assembly Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

"There remains another path. You can reject the course of colonial unilateral action and choose to uphold human rights and the honour of the Crown, and insist that the Province meet its legal obligations" www.ubcic.bc.ca/open_letter_...

First-past-the-post lets politicians with 40% of the vote use public money for vanity projects and donors with little scrutiny.

Proportional representation ensures genuine consensus and accountability for how taxpayer dollars are spent.

B.C. Premier will outline plans for Indigenous rights law on Monday David Eby’s office said Sunday the government ‘will not be introducing legislation on DRIPA during this session’

B.C. First Nations leaders say they were informed Saturday by Premier Eby’s office that gov would table legislation Monday to suspend parts of DRIPA – a plan that was then nixed Sunday.

Eby to hold news conference on next steps tomorrow.
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> The controversy associated with the statement “Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer” reveals more about modern attitudes towards women [than her] achievements. [Her 1843 algorithm] was so advanced, that it was still utilised in record-breaking computation of Bernoulli numbers in 2008.

For sale: private jet, never flown.

The Great Green Wall's one of the world's most ambitious eco-projects. Is it working? It's a global effort with a multibillion dollar price tag. Among its aims: re-greening nearly 250 million acres, planting 4,000 miles of trees, helping farmers, creating jobs, sequestering carbon.

It's a global effort with a multibillion dollar price tag. Among its aims: re-greening nearly 250 million acres, planting 4,000 miles of trees, helping farmers, creating jobs, sequestering carbon.

notice where income and housing costs become completely untethered from one another

No buyer’s remorse here. Just lower energy bills, comfier homes, and air conditioning for our hotter summers.

More from @cleanenergycanada.org on why 91% of Canadians would recommend a heat pump to their neighbour 👇

buff.ly/PFOobKE

The Great Quake and the Great Drowning | Hakai Magazine Mega-quakes have periodically rocked North America’s Pacific Northwest. Indigenous people told terrifying stories about the devastation but refused to leave.

And Indigenous oral histories! hakaimagazine.com/features/gre...

"They were so lucky I was looking"

Ummm no. Stopping in time for a child running onto the street is not heroic/lucky, it is your goddamn obligation as a driver. Cost of entry. Kids are allowed to be unpredictable, you are not.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

NEW! This webinar will cover how to communicate wildfire smoke-related health risks more clearly, support risk mitigation behaviours, and tailor messages to different audiences.

📆 APRIL 29, 2026 @ 12 - 1pm PT

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"These results indicate that neighbourhood socio-demographic conditions are the dominant correlate of mental health, while tree cover shows an additional independent association beyond socio-demographic status." iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

Elizabeth May: "I just read in The Guardian that the big oil and gas companies are making $30m [*an hour] because of the wars. So why are we deciding to get rid of the excise tax on gas instead of an excess profit tax on the companies that are raking in the dough due to war?"

Biodiversity collapse threatens UK security, intelligence chiefs warn Ecosystem destruction will increase food shortages, disorder and mass migration, with effects already being felt

what if instead of spending another $150 billion on US defence contractors, we spent it on fighting climate change and called it national defence
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Webinar: Building collective power for pay equity through an intersectional lens - West Coast LEAF Register to

TOMORROW 12:30 pm: Equal Pay Day webinar compares a racialized woman's pay to a white man's.

Our researcher/policy analyst Véronique Sioufi, PhD participates in West Coast LEAF webinar: Building Collective Power for Pay Equity Through an Intersectional Lens.

2025 Writing in the Margins contest winners We’re excited to announce the winners and honourable mentions of our 15th annual Writing in the Margins contest!

Learn more about our winners and runner ups here: briarpatchmagazine.c...

Subscribe to get our Spring issue and read the pieces by our fantastic finalists!

#writing #creativewriting #poetry #photgraphy

"In a world with a growing range of highly contagious airborne infectious diseases that increase workplace illnesses and absences, improved indoor air is critical to public health, productivity and competitiveness." - @irpp.org

Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...