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Please consider supporting one of my favourite charities, the Fur Bearers, by buying a ticket for their 50/50 draw! Must be in British Columbia to play.

#BC #Animals #BritishColumbia
https://furbearers.rafflenexus.com/a/lastchance

Flooding severs #BC's Lower Mainland from the Interior

“Flooding and rock slides have cut off British Columbia's Lower Mainland from the Interior as a series of atmospheric river weather systems drench the province, with emergency officials saying cross-border water flows rival those that triggered catastrophic floods in 2021.”

#Canada

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/11/news/flooding-severs-bcs-lower-mainland-interior-cross-border-flows-rival-2021

I am sorry, this may hurt other #Canadian folk… But, out walking to see the damages from the atmospheric river of the past 24 hours I noticed...

budding trees & shrubs.

Almost #WinterSolstice2025 in #Vancouver, #BC, #Canada. Early #Spring this year?

#TemperateRainforest

Dogwood on the street with terminal leaf buds well-formed.

Blue spruce along pathway with tiny buds forming.

A grey branch of an unknown tree variety horizontal over dark green English Box shrubs, with leaf buds of light green at terminals.

The laughing man of Vancouver. It’s great when you get close up to them because you can see where all the people touch them. Lots of hands, face, and the occasional shiny groin.

#canada #britishcolumbia #bc #vancouver #art #statue #35 #35mm #film #filmisnotdead #kodak #portra #kodakgold #iso200 #gold200 #portra400

Polling by Léger: Broad Support for Pipeline from #Alberta to B.C. Coast

“Despite fears of backlash, stronger-than-expected support in #BC and #Quebec challenges assumptions about pipelines' political risks for the Liberals.”

#canada #cdnpoli #montreal

https://www.338canada.ca/p/leger-broad-support-for-pipeline?publication_id=1846987&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=1spip&utm_medium=email

I openly opposed #TMX on #Twitter a decade ago. As a result, I received constant online harassment, death threats and regular late night phone calls from machines that just said “goodbye” then hung up.

For all those saying “This pipeline will never happen”, there are many more right wing Canadian #MAGA bullies who are ready to push the point.

Sadly, as of my recent anti #NorthernGateway posts, the late night calls have resumed. Last night’s came at 4AM to my cellphone.

#MarkCarney has no idea of the hate storm he’s released on #BC due to his partnership with #DanielleSmith on this bullshit #MOU.

Intimidation and harassment in #Canada is a very real thing. Many Canadians unaffected and unconcerned with this pipeline have no idea what would happen if they openly opposed it.

This is the reality for #climatedefenders under #Liberals who have once again emboldened the worst people n Canada.

I hesitated to speak out against this new pipeline, knowing the harassment would continue. But that’s their intention, to intimidate me into silence.

So late night phone calls again it is. Last time this triggered me so much I spent way more time openly opposing the pipeline to spite the hate.

This pipeline will probably get built, despite all those minimizing by saying it won’t. I know this because of the constant misinformation in the #MSM and on #Facebook, skewed polls in favor of the pipeline meant to nudge public opinion, and the start of a new harassment and intimidation campaign by right wing lunatics.

The machine has once again awoken and anti Climate Liberals are at the wheel, steering Canada away from clean options while letting #Conservative goons do their dirty work.

Northern Gateway is a Nation Burning Project not “Nation Building” as Mark Carney would have you believe.

We will resist this pipeline and we will continue to fight, despite biased Canadian Media and #MapleMAGA threats and harassment.

This will be the most costly pipeline ever built in Canada, both financially and politically. If built, Liberals will carry this oil-soaked albatross for a generation.

Carney’s betrayal will cost them dearly, as dearly as opposing another dirty oil pipeline will cost all of us in #BC.

#cdnpoli #abpoli #bcpoli #nopipelines #elbowsdown #dirtyoil #dirtypolitics

The laughing man of the west end.

#vancouver #canada #bc #britishcolumbia #statue #laughter #35 #35mm #film #filmisnotdead #kodak #portra #kodakgold #iso200 #gold200 #portra400

Good news story! A Royal Canadian Navy member fell from a rigid hull inflatable boat about one kilometre east of Bentinck Island off Metchosin, BC south of Victoria. He was located and retrieved from the water within a couple hours and he's home and safe!
#BC #RCN #USCG #RCCG #Canada #Navy

https://albernivalleynews.com/2025/12/09/video-navy-sailor-plucked-from-dark-stormy-waters-off-vancouver-island/

NIWRA: Get up close and personal with wild animals Published 1:30 am Wednesday, December 10, 2025 By Moira Rosser-Peterson North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre

#vancouverisland #parksville #QualicumBeach #wildlife #bc

CBC: Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law? - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/old-growth-tree-cut-down-vancouver-island-should-have-been-protected-advocates-9.7003408

* Tree met the requirements to be preservered with a buffer zone.
* Tree had **already been marked to be preserved.**

Both the #logging company AND the government of #BC are engaging in self-harm here, from the reporting.

#BCPoli #CdnPoli #temperate #coastal #rainforest #VancouverIsland #Canada

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT, & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
The Zouchameen Road led the HBC men north from #Princeton #BC through a crack in the mountains and on to the Nicola Valley and, eventually, #Kamloops. The Brigades, however, did not use that historic trail. #TheHBCBrigades #Journeys #HBCHistory https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/zouchameen-road/

A grove of trees stands in a meadowland that is surrounded by heavy growths of trees that extend all the way to the rounded hills in the distant background.

Well, it looks like I'm firing up the ol' coal-powered web log… Before a new piece this month, here's some CNF first published in The Quarantine Review. It's about #adoption, academic travels in northern #BC, and discovering a beloved childhood author was an abuser (it's 1 of 3 pieces on this: a #blog, #CNF, and an #academic #article).

Here's "Terrace Nostoi": https://gifford.mla.hcommons.org/2025/12/06/terrace-nostoi/

Photograph from the plane flying into Terrace, BC, over the Skeena River.

https://www.biographic.com/charting-a-course-through-bears-eyes/

"To develop a more realistic picture of how bears crisscross their territory, Housty and other Heiltsuk stewards recently partnered with academics to construct their own model of bear navigation. Their tool, which is based on a technique borrowed from electrical engineering called circuit theory and has been adapted for use in landscape ecology, gives them a way to calculate the “least cost” pathways that the bears might take to navigate the complex and densely packed forest between salmon streams.

#bears #Heiltsuk #FirstNation #BC #BritishColumbia

#FirstNations #BC #canada

A First Nation on BC’s central coast has voted to keep its 2026 spawn-on-kelp herring fishery closed, sacrificing income and tradition in hopes of rebuilding a fragile keystone species

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/09/news/first-nation-herring-recovery-fisheries

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassAtrocity #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Banqueiros do Focus pressionam BC a manter juros criminosos contra o país.
- bshpvo
https://horadopovo.com.br/banqueiros-do-focus-pressionam-bc-a-manter-juros-criminosos-contra-o-pais/
#Capa #BC #BoletimFocus #Selic

RE: https://kamloops.social/@local/115685890318336951

For information on how to pronounce "stal̕əw̓asəm Bridge", see: https://www.pattullobridgereplacement.ca/bridge-name/

For better or for worse, I don't expect that to be what Vancouverites actually call the bridge.

#bridges #BC #Vancouver

The bridge replacing Pattullo Bridge has been given the name Stal̕əw̓asəm. Is also given the English name "Riverview" for devices that do not support or have adequate accommodations for Indigenous orthographies.

https://www.castanet.net/news/Metro-Vancouver/588325/Pattullo-Bridge-renamed-Stal-w-as-m-set-to-open-soon#588325

#SurreyBC #NewWestministerBC #Surrey #SurreyCanada #SurreyBritishColumbia #SurreyBCCanada #SurreyBritishColumbiaCanada #NewWestminsterBritishColumbia #NewWestminsterBritishColumbiaCanada #NewWestminsterBCCanada #BCCanada #BritishColumbiaCanada #BC #BCCanada #Canada

THE HBC BRIGADES: CULTURE, CONFLICT & PERILOUS JOURNEYS
Tiny Fort Shepherd, on the Columbia River just north of the boundary line (near #Trail #BC ) had many stories told about it, most of which were humorous and showed the ability of the HBC men to get along with the Indigenous people (most of the time.) #HBCHistory #Journeys #TheHBCBrigades https://nancymargueriteanderson.com/fort-shepherd-stories/

Historic post and sill house of the HBC trade, whitewashed and shingle roofed. This is the old storehouse at replica Fort Langley.

Burnaby! Such great energy. Thanks for coming out to our library meet & greet 📚 pssst have you joined the BC Greens yet? #burnaby #bc #bcgreens #tour #fighttheoligarchs