Damming the Peace — the Hidden Costs of the Site C Dam, edited by Wendy Holm, published by James Lorimer & Co., 2018. Book review by Tim Pelzer “Damming the Peace” delivers a devastating critique of the Site C dam building project in British Columbia’s Peace River Valley and tells […]
By Kimball Cariou, editor of People’s Voice Starting on October 23, British Columbians are receiving ballot packages in the mail, for the province’s referendum on electoral reform. Ballots must be returned in time to count by late November. Most progressive political forces, including the labour movement, are urging a […]
People’s Voice Editorial The start of rotating strikes across the country by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is a signal that solidarity is needed more than ever, by other trade unions, and by the public. That begins with picket line support, the most immediate way to show that the […]
By Kimball Cariou October 20 was municipal election day across British Columbia, earlier than in the past, when campaigning went into the mid-November rainy season. The highlight for many observers was in Vancouver, where Vision’s ten years of majority control of City Hall was ending. After a crushing byelection defeat […]
PV Vancouver Bureau On October 7, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change launched its Special Report on Global Warming at 1.5 degrees. The IPCC report provides evidence that governments must now heed: there are still ways to avoid runaway climate change, but only if the world acts now, and with […]
Statement by the Provincial Executive, Communist Party of BC The announcement of a major new liquid natural gas (LNG) export facility near Kitimat, British Columbia, escalates the climate change threat to the planet, in exchange for dubious promises of benefits for the province. The Communist Party of BC joins with […]