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Housing, Poverty

Lawyer makes case for keeping Prince George homeless camps in place

By Mark Nielsen, Prince George Citizen Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

The homeless living in a so-called tent cities will have no viable place to go if the court grants an order to remove them, the lawyer representing the group says in documents filed at the courthouse.

Very few of the roughly 81 emergency shelter beds in the city are low barrier making many of Prince George’s homeless ineligible to stay in them, lawyer Darlene Kavka says in responses to an application from city hall seeking an order to authorize occupants’ removal from sites at 538 Patricia Boulevard and 231-233 George Street.

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Cost of Climate Change

Transition to a low carbon future: Industry and climate groups face off

By John Woodside,  National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

As the planet slides into an era of climate breakdown, oil and gas industry groups and climate advocacy organizations in Canada are squaring off to shape the federal government’s just transition strategy.

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Cost of Climate Change, Youth

Youth4Climate: hundreds of young people hand over demands in advance of COP26

By Cloe Logan and Morgan Sharp, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

World leaders have met annually since 1995 to talk about climate change, and this year, they finally asked young people ahead of time about ways to create jobs in renewable energy, push countries to prioritize low-carbon action, and how to get climate justice.

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Cost of Climate Change

When it comes to climate, SFU students have had enough ‘bold claims and buzzwords’

By John Woodside, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

Students at Simon Fraser University are threatening the school with a hunger strike until it commits to a full divestment of fossil fuels by 2025.

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Cost of Climate Change, Youth

Canadian delegates worry some voices ‘weren’t heard’ at youth climate conference

By Morgan Sharp, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

It was meant to matter, this time.

After 25 years of adults trying to work out how to do it right, the Youth4Climate summit in Milan, Italy, which gathered some 400 young people from across the globe to discuss the climate crisis last week, was meant to be different.

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