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Faith Leaders Opposing BC’s Coal Port Expansion

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Rev Dr Dorothy A Jeffery an ordained minister with the United Church of Canada is the spokesperson for Faith Leaders opposing BC’s coal port expansion.

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BC Indian Chiefs passed a resolution in support of Grace Islet

As you can hear in the video below, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs passed a resolution in support of Grace Islet Burial site. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip made the announcement at a demonstration at the provincial legislature, in Victoria, yesterday. He said the vote was unanimous.

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BC’s Need To Confront Climate Change

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Jens Wieting of Sierra Club BC believes BC’s emissions are being seriously underreported. There are some bright spots in the province, like the city of Vancouver, but for the most part Canadian politicians are not dealing with the reality of Climate change.in the podcast below he talks about BC’s Need to confront Climate change.

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Christy’s Classroom

The ECOreport interviews organizer Renay Maurice about the protest against BC’s diminishing education system: Christy’s Classroom

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Why is there so much conflict between BC’s Teachers and the provincial government? An Interview with Renay Maurice, who organized the protest known as “Christy’s Classroom” (named after  Premier Christy Clark) on the front lawn of the provincial legislature.

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Fassbender rejected the BC teacher’s offer to go to binding arbitration

By Roy L Hales

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In a press release issued Saturday, BC’s Minister of Education Peter Fassbender rejected the BC teacher’s offer to go to binding arbitration because “the BCTF made it clear that they would insist on several preconditions – preconditions that would effectively tilt the entire process in the BCTF favour.”

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