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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Big crowd out at the BC legislature, calling on the BC government to stop logging old-growth forests, pledging to vote on this issue on October 24 #bcpoli

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

There’s lots of bullshit flying around about this announcement this week, but there’s a kernel of truth here: even at the height of these so-called community-supporting projects, the folks working on them are worried about the precarity of their jobs. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

A post on twitter from the BC NDP, in which Premier David Eby describes talking to workers on LNG Canada Phase 1, who even at the height of that project were already anxious about their job security.

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The extinction of the southern resident orcas could now have a name and a price tag: “Pacific Link” for $44 billion of mostly taxpayer money,” said Conservation and Policy Campaigner Lucero Gonzalez. #cdnpoli www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/canadas...

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Canada’s most expensive extinction attempt now has a name: “Pacific Link Pipeline”

Wilderness Committee condemns “project of national interest” designation for new west coast oil pipelineVANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh AND səlilwətaɬ TERRITORIES — With no remorse in h...

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Pacific Link pipeline and RBT2 will drive the southern resident orcas to extinction, and $1.2 trillion wouldn't change that.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Carney carefully weaves in his shock doctrine narrative, telling us why we have to do this NOW so “we can continue to live our lives as we choose.” The implication being: no oil pipeline, no sovereignty. Which is an unhinged thing to say, actually!

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We’re encouraging people to support residential school survivors and other Indigenous-led organizations for One Day’s Pay — a campaign asking people to donate their pay from the statutory holiday or what they can afford. Here are some deserving groups... OneDaysPay.ca

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wednesday, September 30, is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day to remember and honour the victims and survivors of the Canadian residential school system. Please take the time to reflect on its destructive legacy and challenge colonial and racist systems that remain in place.

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If we are serious about dismantling patriarchy and rape culture, we would stop calling it Cornell 7. It's the Cornell 57. Passive bystanders are a pillar of misogyny. Men must actively intervene in shifting social norms & refuse to participate in rape *culture* Its the Cornell 57, not Cornell 7.

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This is a total indictment of climate policy in Canada. Decisions like this are not compatible with a safe future, and absolutely nothing can rationalize this kind of failure. #cdnpoli

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 28/09/2026

A Canadian scientist says Mark Carney's government is subsidizing the destruction of nature, contravening Canada's global biodiversity commitments. @sarahkcox.bsky.social reports. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...

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Carney’s Push to Fund Industry Imperils Canada’s Nature Promises | The Tyee

Canada participated in a ‘historic’ global moment for biodiversity. Experts say we’re not following through.

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A tree can be a clubhouse To play with friends To play a board game To plan an imaginary game Some trees are relaxers on a hot play date -Nina Coste, 6

An illustration by my kiddo, with the text above, and the scenes depicted

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

We've fought the "working forest model" before. Read our Forest Campaigner Sarafina Lewis-Henderson's take on the return of a long-dead strategy to put logging company profits over the protection of old-growth forests #bcpoli #oldgrowth www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/bc-gove...

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B.C. Government’s “working forest model” only works for logging companies

Under “no net loss” approach, land can only be added to protected areas if other protected land is rezoned for loggingIn the weeks before calling a snap election, the B.C. provincial government began ...

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Gutless neoliberals in government in the US lost two elections just running on “trump is bad” and almost nothing else. It would be even more embarrassing if the gutless neoliberals in government here in B.C. lost an election they didn’t need to call for the same reason. #bcpoli

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Ok, look, framing a snap election as a "firebreak against Trump" when you already have a majority is unhinged. #bcpoli

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Labour pushback against Carney's neoliberal policies, First Nations pushback against Carney's neoliberal policies (www.ipolitics.ca/2026/09/22/r...) it's almost as if having a goldman sachs banker as a prime minister is working out exactly how you'd think it would...

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Major Projects Office 'doesn’t know what they are doing' on First Nations, says national chief

"Are you too good to come talk to our chiefs?" The AFN national chief says she's stopped inviting the Major Projects Office CEO Dawn Farrell after previous requests went unanswered.

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

“Certainty for the forest industry cannot come at the expense of the land, water, wildlife or future generations. A modern approach to forestry must recognize Indigenous title and jurisdiction and ensure ecosystem health is not secondary to timber supply." syilx.org/proposed-wor... #bcpoli

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Proposed “Working Forest” Model Raises Concerns For Syilx Okanagan Territory | Syilx Okanagan Nation

MEDIA RELEASE | September 16, 2026 tkwəɬniwt (Westbank), Syilx Okanagan Nation Territory: The syilx Okanagan Nation is raising concerns about British Columbia’s proposed Working Forest Landscape Model...

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In the 2026 budget released in February, the Carney government cut $1.4 and $4.3 billion from ECCC & DFO. These cuts stand in stark contrast to the flood of $82 billion military funding allocated for the next five years. Read the full story: WildernessCommittee.org/FloodtheZone

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

But there are alternatives Because after all, a new oil pipeline isn’t an inevitability; it’s a political choice, and one we don’t have to make. 2/2 🧵 Read the full report: www.wildernesscommittee.org/publications/flood-zone #markcarney #cdnpoli #oilandgas #fossilfuels #climatechange

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Prime Minister Mark Carney is employing a Trump-inspired strategy called “flooding the zone,” where he throws so many policy announcements and new laws at us that we’re hardly able to respond. Our new report, Flood the Zone, unpacks this strategy 👇1/2🧵 #markcarney #cdnpoli

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This story broke last week, but just catching up on it, and it’s a huge deal. The latest in a long and growing list of shady moves that NDP partisans would be absolutely up in arms about if another party did the exact same thing: globalnews.ca/news/1202630...

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B.C. government ends public access to directory in place since 1930s | Globalnews.ca

Jody Toor, MLA for Langley-Willowbrook and government services critic, said a directory of this nature has been in place and available since the 1930s.

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The West Coast Oil Pipeline will cost upwards of $44 billion dollars while worsening natural disasters. You have until September 18 - write now: WildernessCommittee.org/RejectWCOP #climatechange #westcoast #bcpoli #cdnpoli #albertapolitics

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 18/08/2026

For months, Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank have watched their water lines cut and their wells marked for demolition in Israel’s slow strangulation of Palestinian agriculture, as farmers tell Mondoweiss "there is no tomorrow" for them. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/dest...

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‘Destroying agriculture is the purpose’: How Israel is drying up the West Bank’s most fertile farmlands

For months, Palestinian farmers in the northern West Bank have watched their water lines cut and their wells marked for demolition in Israel’s slow strangulation of Palestinian agriculture, as…

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 28/07/2026

BC Parks calls Carmanah Walbran Park "one of the most remarkable wild places on Vancouver Island.” But for months, it has been nearly inaccessible, as a logging company has gated one entrance and left landslide debris blocking the other, @camfenton.bsky.social reports. thenarwhal.ca/bc-carmanah-...

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Logging company closes access to B.C. provincial park | The Narwhal

Many B.C. parks are accessible only by resource roads controlled by private companies. The Carmanah Walbran closure raises questions about access to public land

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Parts of the Walbran-Carmanah valley have been blocked off to the public for a year now. When people can't get into these forests, they can't know them, and that makes it easier for industry to log what's left. #oldgrowth #bc Take action today: www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/...

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Every time I think Premier Eby and the B.C. NDP government have hit the limit of their cowardice, they go and top it.

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

A team of a dozen volunteers worked hard to clear the dense rainforest undergrowth on the legendary Walk the Wildside Trail, which winds along the south shore of Flores Island in Clayoquot Sound, from the Ahousaht village of Maaqtusiis to the sprawling white sand beach of Cow Bay 🐚 #oldgrowth

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We kicked off our 2026 trail building season on the last weekend in June, on the incredibly powerful territory of the Ahousaht 🌞 #clayoquotsound #oldgrowth #britishcolumbia

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

TAKE ACTION ▶️ Five years after the deadly heat dome that claimed more than 600 lives in B.C., the provincial government is considering greenlighting FortisBC's Tilbury LNG expansion. Write your letter to stop Tilbury LNG 👇 www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/...

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Say no to Tilbury LNG expansion!

Expanding fossil fuel infrastructure is unacceptable for people, species and the planet. Show your dissent today!

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

“Prime Minister Carney is showing his enthusiastic willingness to accept and fund the extinction of endangered species and future where oil and private profit are more valuable than the entire Salish Sea ecosystem.” -Lucero González www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Why expansion of Delta container port is going hand-in-hand with Alberta pipeline proposal | CBC News

The lack of a northern route for Alberta's proposed new pipeline to the B.C. coast may have grabbed the headlines during Thursday's announcement of an Ottawa-B.C. memorandum of understanding with more...

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

There won’t be orcas here in the future, but at least we’ll be able to find comfort in the fact that our governments gave tens of billions of taxpayer dollars to the richest and most polluting industry in history

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

the political class is trying to tell us governments funnelling tens of billions of $ to the richest, most-polluting industry on earth will do a single thing to make our lives more affordable/less shitty, as if we’ve all got brains the size of a ping pong ball and were born yesterday #cdnpoli

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith just said “doubling Alberta’s oil production in an environmentally friendly way,” just in case you thought having your statements grounded in anything resembling truth or reality was a necessity to win elections in Canada. #cdnpoli

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

BREAKING: The Wilderness Committee is condemning today’s announcement of a new Canada-British Columbia Cooperative Prosperity Agreement as an abandonment of both governments’ efforts to fight #climatechange and protect the #environment. www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/wildern...

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Wilderness Committee slams new federal-B.C. deal on pipeline, megaprojects

New agreement drives southern resident killer whales closer to extinctionVANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh AND səlilwətaɬ TERRITORIES — The Wilderness Committee is condemning today’s anno...

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Buckle up for the feds to take the bill for the northwest transmission line, in exchange for Eby dropping his opposition to a new pipeline. A generational sellout, B.C. NDP style www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Carney, Eby to announce 'multi-billion-dollar' agreement ahead of Alberta's pipeline update | CBC News

The B.C. premier's office said the agreement being announced Thursday "will power decades of job growth and prosperity."

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Turns out his “values” were just recycling stephen harper’s fifteen year old petro politics. That he convinced lots of people here he was about anything other that status quo corporate conservatism is one of Canada’s greatest political scams.

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🚨 TAKE ACTION - tell the B.C. government to restore public access to Walbran and Carmanah 🌲 Write to the district manager responsible for the area, local MLA Josie Osborne & Minister of Forests Ravi Parmar. Send your letter today ⬇️ #oldgrowth #walbran www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/...

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Restore public access to Walbran and Carmanah Valleys in B.C.

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

A balanced public conversation about the future of old-growth forests isn’t possible if the provincial government bars access to the largest tracts of intact ancient forests. #bcpoli

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Take action in solidarity with Tla-o-qui-aht, and call on the BC NDP government to respect Indigenous rights here: www.wildernesscommittee.org/take-action/...

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Stop mining in Clayoquot Sound

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Comprehensive coverage on the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation’s fighting against mining incursion in its territory in Clayoquot Sound:

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Old-growth forests in Ontario are in need of recognition and protection — for the climate, biodiversity and people. These rare ecosystems are carbon storehouses, habitat for wildlife and cultural touchstones that we cannot afford to lose. Read the report: WildernessCommittee.org/OntarioOldGrowth

"NEW REPORT, Old-growth forests need protection now" In the background is a huge, knobby tree-trunk covered in different shaggy lichens and plate-like mushrooms. It is surrounded by a lush green forest.

At a time when economic, political and social human-made systems are buckling under cracks and pressures, there is solace and strength in recognizing the insight available to us in the workings of ecosystems. If we only let them.
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Old-Growth Forests Need Protection Now
details the wealth of old-growth forest that still stands in Ontario and what the forest needs from us.
Old-growth forests in Ontario are hotspots for wildlife, essential carbon storehouses, cultural touchstones for Indigenous communities and landscapes for ecological research, education, recreation and solace.
The research is clear that these ecosystems must be priorities for protection to address both the climate crises and biodiversity loss, but many are still at risk from commercial logging, mining exploration and urban sprawl.

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

We've been to caribou habitat, we've seen how the forest minister's disregard for these endangered animals is having an impact on the ground. We're not going to fact-check his claims because you already know that they're wrong. We're asking you take action instead: WildernessCommittee.org/Caribou

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

For his unwavering love of SELE₭TEȽ and leadership of the Douglas Treaty Right, we are proud to award W̱SÁNEĆ elder ZȺWIZUT Carl Olsen with the 2026 Eugene Roger’s award – presented every year to conservationists who work exceptionally hard to protect nature 🐟🌲 #victoria #nature

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

The current BC forest minister has said a lot of outrageous things, but this might take the cake. Blaming caribou and calling them stupid for getting scared when their habitat is destroyed by logging is such a callous worldview to hold. coastmountainnews.com/2026/06/10/f... #bcpoli

A passage from an interview with BC forest minister Ravi Parmar. It reads:

"Parmar was critical of caribou for how they grow “spooked” when disturbed and exhaust substantial energy running away over long distances.

“That’s usually one of the reasons that leads to their demise, and that’s one of the reasons why we’ve had to defer harvesting in different parts of the province, because they need a vast area of land,” he said. “Not the smartest animal, that’s for sure.”"

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Torrance Coste @torrancecoste.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"Just one more LNG project bro. I swear bro just one more terminal. Please bro."

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