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Councilors nixed a plan that would have allowed 6-story apartments in a few neighbourhoods. 2 weeks ago, they approved three 20-story towers on my block. I spoke at that public hearing, said I support density but maybe 6-10 stories would be enough? Eye rolls. Sigh. vancouversun.com/opinion/colu...

Real estate: Vancouver council rejects controversial 'villages' plan, citing public backlashVancouver council's ABC-majority council rejected the villages plan Tuesday, a controversial proposal from the city's planning departmentvancouversun.com

Cue the thundering silence from the same groups who express outrage when a First Nation closes a park for a few days. thenarwhal.ca/bc-carmanah-...

Logging company closes access to B.C. provincial park | The NarwhalMany B.C. parks are accessible only by resource roads controlled by private companies. The Carmanah Walbran closure raises questions about access to public landthenarwhal.ca

love a good threshold

the (seemingly) genuine befuddlement of American pols and their dear leader over the increase in wildfires in the past decade -- "I don't remember ever happening before!" -- is really something.

Forestry experts can correct me on this, but—wildfires in the boreal really seem like the truest expression of a changing climate. Further south, a century of fire suppression & monoculture plantations have contributed to flammability. But the northern boreal is untouched. Only one factor in play.

Best publicity the climate movement could hope for www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Wildfire smoke smothers U.S. northeast, drawing concern for World Cup finalOfficials hopeful precipitation will improve conditions ahead of Sunday’s World Cup ​final in New Jerseywww.theglobeandmail.com

Let’s point our windmills south and blow the smoke smoke at him harder

The backlash to Cowichan has included calls to amend the Constitution. It was Robert who first pointed out to me that Canada's tried this before: in 1927, we banned "Indians" from hiring a lawyer, partly in response to the Cowichan's land claim. That's how long they've been at this.

How to express the character of a man who represents FN's in court and brandishes that career as proof of his character, while stealing millions from the *children's* trust he put himself in charge of? And as a side note: nobody's doing more to destroy AB's separatist movement than First Nations.

I hate to say this but Canada could stop emitting entirely and this would still happen. our emissions are like 1-2% of global total. That is in no way an argument to give up on climate policy. but let’s not make false promises.

a fun fact that didn't make it to the final draft: when the Constitution was being written in 1982, there was a big debate over whether to enshrine private property protections. They decided not to. But agreed to protect "Aboriginal rights."

One year ago, the BC Supreme Court declared the Cowichan nation holds Aboriginal title over a slice of Richmond at the mouth of the Fraser River. Then came the backlash. I wrote about the trial, and the panic, for @macleans.bsky.social. macleans.ca/longforms/ri...

A Judge Recognized Aboriginal Title on Private Property. Panic Ensued. - Macleans.caHow the Cowichan court battle is putting the real meaning of reconciliation to the testmacleans.ca

almost there "The price tag for the project is between $35.2 billion and $43.7 billion...The Alberta government says it has already spent $18.3 million planning the project so far." www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Alberta pitches new bitumen pipeline route to B.C. coast with TMX, Pembina partnersPrime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announce a preferred route and interested parties for a new bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast.www.ctvnews.ca

Excellent overview from the mighty @justinehunter.bsky.social, on the history of Supreme Court decision that led to Cowichan. Really captures how aboriginal law is evolving before our eyes, with one blockbuster court case after another. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

How we got to the Cowichan decision: The slow evolution of Aboriginal title in Canadian lawA recent B.C. Supreme Court judge shut down a landowner’s attempt to reopen the Cowichan title case, but the dispute itself is 148 years in the makingwww.theglobeandmail.com

For those following the Cowichan story: Montrose just lost its application to re-open the trial and be added as a defendant. Judge ruled that this is between Cowichan & government, not private parties; also, Montrose knew all along this case was happening and could/should have applied years ago.

Possible to agree with this and also lament that this is exactly the language Republicans (and really, every party in every country in every election, these days) used when they re-obtained power?

Pretty happy today

It's great to see all the kudos pouring out for Guilbeault. But I can't help wishing more had come during the Trudeau years, when he was more often accused of buying a pipeline. Gotta hold power to account, but it often feels we're afraid to give credit where it's due (& when it's needed).

We all know how we feel about this “demonic, mewling turducken of a referendum question,” but can anyone say it the way @sproudfoot.bsky.social says it? I don’t think so. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

Opinion: Danielle Smith tries to blame 700,000 illusory Albertans for her separatism gambitWith her have-it-both-ways referendum question, the Premier has made the math clear: Her political skin is more important than Alberta or Canadawww.theglobeandmail.com

whoa