Mark Jaccard and Chris Ragan: This time, let’s set climate targets — and achieve them too

Credit to Author: Stephen Snelgrove| Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2019 01:00:17 +0000

OPINION: The impacts of a changing climate — from forests fires to heat waves to floods — are getting worse and are making life harder for Canadians. A commitment to achieve deep emissions reductions by 2050 in Canada is consistent with the scale of the threat.

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Douglas Todd: Greens push to welcome 'environmental refugees' to Canada

Credit to Author: Douglas Todd| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 00:34:43 +0000

OPINION: The party intends to “lead a national discussion to define the term ‘environmental refugee,’ advocate for its inclusion as a refugee category … and accept an appropriate share of the world’s environmental refugees into Canada.”

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B.C. government lifts burn ban in coastal fire zone

Credit to Author: Tiffany Crawford| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 16:19:54 +0000

Heavy rainfall and cooler temperatures on the South Coast over the last fews days have led the B.C. government to lift the open fire ban in the coastal fire zone. Effective at noon Wednesday, all open fires will again be permitted given that the wildfire risk has been greatly reduced. Category 2 open fires will be […]

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