60-bed facility for people experiencing homelessness will be built at 1030 Old Victoria Rd.
> As British Columbians gear up to celebrate Canada Day, officials are urging the public to plan ahead and stay safe amid expected travel congestion on ferries, highways, and at airports.
Bob Gray delivered a talk in Taghum on how we need to rethink wildfires
Families have a wealth of animal encounters, outdoor activities, and artistic explorations to look forward to on the coastline of this Canadian island.
Qualicum First Nation artist commissioned for project
> On top of the artist fee, the town will spend $30,000 for fabrication, production, and placement of the piece and another $20,100 for engineering, electrical and concrete base installation. The total cost of the project is estimated to be $65,100, which Watson indicated exceeds the town's budget for the project by $16,100. To cover the shortfall, staff suggested redirecting the extra funds from the Highway 19A Ditch Infill/Bike Lane/Parking – Phase 1 project.
Check out one of the many free celebrations and festivals being held on Vancouver Island to celebrate Canada Day this weekend.
> Coun. Colin Plant, who supported the legalization of rural secondary suites, said it's a much-needed step toward housing affordability — something residents have been asking for for years. He says he believes the province felt Saanich could be doing more to provide housing across the city and had a different view than the municipality on what that should look like.
At-risk wildlife and critical old-growth habitat will be protected at eight different sites through the Old Growth Nature Fund.
> The B.C. government, the federal government and seven land trust and conservancy organizations have worked together to secure critical old growth and habitat for species at risk at eight different sites.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/24028242
> "Assisted dying is the focal point for this case. But the case has implications beyond that," said Jocelyn Downie, a professor emeritus in the faculty of law and medicine at the University of Dalhousie, who has spent years researching health delivery at religious-run health networks across Canada. > > "Canadians need to recognize that they can be denied care much beyond assisted dying," Downie said. > > "There's all kinds of care that they could be denied because governments are allowing faith-based institutions that are publicly funded… to deny care based on their religious beliefs and values."
> "There's all kinds of care that they could be denied because governments are allowing faith-based institutions that are publicly funded… to deny care based on their religious beliefs and values."
Judged against its own benchmarks, government's 1-year-progress report shows gaps and improvements
> Adrian Dix held a news conference at the BC Cancer Clinic - Kelowna on June 27, providing a one-year update on the NDP’s 10-Year Cancer Care Action Plan.
> Consider radiotherapy. Available figures show a nearly 25 per cent improvement in the treatment wait-list, a 7.5 per cent increase in treatment starts, and an increase of 6.4 per cent in patients treated thanks to the hiring of additional radiation oncologists and radiation therapists. But current figures still show that just under 71 per cent of patients receive treatment within four weeks. Within 13 weeks, that figure rises to 80.2 per cent.
Parksville art group DeCosmos Fine Arts Society host sale at Father's Day car show
> Poliquin led the NML during a tumultuous time. CBC News first broke the story in 2019 of two staff scientists who were investigated and later fired after one of them sent a shipment of deadly viruses to China, sparking a political firestorm over concerns of espionage and laboratory security.
VICTORIA — One of the two Green Party members in British Columbia's Legislature has announced he will not seek re-election in this fall's provincial vote.
From 2019:
Battle brewing over Saanich landowner's removal of trees for farm
"For the past several months, Saanich staff have been working with a property owner on Meadowbrook Ridge to facilitate appropriate blasting, tree, and deposit-of-fill permits. On August 30, 2019, staff determined that the owner had proceeded with significant activities without the required permits.
We are taking these bylaw contraventions seriously and as such have conducted numerous inspections of the property and issued stop work orders to the property owner. Construction activities have continued in spite of this. Saanich is currently evaluating its legal options, and intends to take legal action to deal with the unpermitted activities on the property."
> The court heard how leaked district files were sent to Gondor's son, Darian, who has been fighting with neighbours and the district for years to turn his Meadowbrook Ridge property into a hobby farm.
> In 1992, federal Fisheries Minister John Crosbie shut down the northern cod fishery — putting more than 20,000 people out of work in one of the largest industrial layoffs in Canadian history — as cod catches dwindled and harvesters were alarmed by the sight of smaller and smaller fish.
According to a search warrant, Campbell River RCMP raided this property on the We Wai Kai First Nation in February as part of a drug-trafficking investigation. Police claim they seized 3,500 safe-supply hydromorphone pills, as well as fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine.
A Comox Valley chef, mentor, guide and advocate for the culinary industry recently was honoured as a distinguished alumnus by Camosun College.
Oceanside Affordable Housing petition for compassion has more than 500 signatures
Only carrier providing scheduled flights between YVR and Qualicum Beach
One by one, the cages are joined to a removable plywood tunnel that connects to the hutch. If a marmot won’t leave its cage, someone tickles its feet. “They don’t like that very much,” Taylor says. “But some of them are really stubborn and they won’t go in even with the feet tickling. So, you have to take the ultimate irritation measure, which is to blow on their bums … that always seems to convince them.”
Bringing the endangered Vancouver Island marmot back from the brink
One by one, the cages are joined to a removable plywood tunnel that connects to the hutch. If a marmot won’t leave its cage, someone tickles its feet. “They don’t like that very much,” Taylor says. “But some of them are really stubborn and they won’t go in even with the feet tickling. So, you have to take the ultimate irritation measure, which is to blow on their bums … that always seems to convince them.”
Bringing the endangered Vancouver Island marmot back from the brink
This is the kind of politics I like - will he stay, will he go, how will it effect the campaign ...?
Also today: Kenyan protesters dead, parliament on fire as thousands storm compound - Protest against new taxes. don't like that kind.
But, but...
Roughly 55 Liberal MPs won their Ontario ridings by margins smaller than the one Bennett posted in Toronto–St. Paul's in the last general election, according to a CBC News analysis of past election data.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-liberals-byelection-loss-1.7245731
The Tony Barrett Mt Washington Marmot Recovery Centre
Built in 2001 within marmot habitat, the Recovery Centre provides a key link in the management and release of captive-born animals prior to their release to other sites in the wild. The Recovery Centre provides disease management by providing the final stage of quarantine in a single species facility and provides logistical flexibility for releasing marmots – that is, allowing the marmots to be acclimated to release conditions with respect to elevation, weather and natural foods. It also allows for the marmots that are to be released to be held back until field conditions are suitable. An important option during the last few years, when many of the release sites were not accessible until well into July because of unusual snow patterns. Therefore, the need for a dedicated marmot facility on Vancouver Island will undoubtedly continue as long as there is a need for intensive captive management of Vancouver Island marmots as currently exists.
https://marmots.org/
I wonder if this legislation had anything to do with them closing the war room?
"Growth at any cost" is a great motto for corporations, and cancer.
"Everybody can always do more," Kang said. "But I will say that [B.C.] is doing more than what other provinces are doing."
I wonder what the figures are for the rest of the country?
"Everybody can always do more," Kang said. "But I will say that [B.C.] is doing more than what other provinces are doing."
Well, that's something, I guess.
Minister’s statement on Province’s civil claim on ‘forever chemicals’
“The Province of British Columbia has taken the lead in Canada in prosecuting civil damages claims against corporations that cause widespread public harms to people in B.C., including in recent years against tobacco and opiate manufacturers.
business leaders who support the clown car
I will have to dig through a lot of articles
Why don't you crowd source the work?
I'm not sure that Lemmy is the best option, but you could create a new community here and connect it to Mastodon, Matrix, Freidica etc. and ask people to contribute the information you want.
On the other hand, you could just download a list of members from your local Chamber of Commerce and that will be 90% accurate.
Another article with the same byline:
'Standing for the average person': Rustad lays out B.C. Conservative policy
"We have one objective and one objective only: that is to replace David Eby and his radical government policies," Rustad. "I will certainly be reaching out to (B.C. United) to bring down...the NDP government as early as possible."
The Ontario Science Centre is shutting down immediately as an engineering report commissioned by the province shows the roof could collapse — but while it could be fixed at a cost, the province is choosing to shutter the location indefinitely.
This is the John Rustad that said that carbon dioxide emissions were not contributing to climate change and 'we need to look at patients as revenue generators' and wants to invoke the notwithstanding clause to lock up people on mental health grounds. That's the Rustad that is getting a "thumbs-up" from business leaders.
Do people think it’s a good thing to hire Provincial Health Officer based on how they fit their ideology
Way too many people do. Look slightly east for an example.
The whole thing is worth a read, but this stuck out:
Hospitals now cut services to meet their budget because they look at patients as a cost, he said. “We actually need to reverse that, we need to look at patients as revenue generators.”
