Following her election loss on October 19, foolhardy voters were chastised by BC Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau:

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“It’s a strange time in politics when during an atmospheric river people come out and vote for a party that’s denying the reality of climate change, but hey, that’s just where we’re at,” she said.

There is no doubt it was extremely wet that day, especially in the Burrard Inlet area which usually gets the highest volumes of Vancouver precipitation. That significant rainfall and the damage it caused, also spurred an op-ed in the Times Colonist titled: Atmospheric rivers require new approach to water management

The newspaper calls the piece: A commentary. Shapiro is ­principal at environmental ­consultancy Shapiro & Company and Morris is director of B.C. Water Legacy and a steering member of the Watershed ­Security Coalition.
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A recent CBC story called B.C. to expand involuntary care for those with addiction issues sets out the about-face by BC Premier Eby on the controversial issue of involuntary secure care for individuals with mental health issues.
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The article includes:

As part of his public safety pitch, Eby said that the province was in discussions with the Kwikwetlem First Nation over its claim to the land on which the former Riverview Hospital for those with mental health issues sits.
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The government says that it is working on plans for a future redevelopment of the Riverview site as part of those discussions, which could potentially settle the nation's claim to the land.
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​On September 4, The Weather Network reproduced a CBC story called Edmonton, Calgary see hottest July on record:
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July was the hottest on record for Calgary and Edmonton. (Bert Savard/CBC)
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​The Weather Network quotes the CBC reporter:
It's been a hot, record-setting summer in Alberta. And it's not over yet.
This July was the hottest on record for both Edmonton and Calgary.
And on Monday, multiple communities across the province broke single-day temperature records.
On the whole, this was the third-warmest summer in Edmonton.
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An August 26, 2024 news piece from Canada’s National Observer is alarmingly titled Extended nightmarish drought strains British Columbia water systems. It claims that, in spite of recent rains, less than 10% of the province has enough water to meet our needs.

The article quotes Coree Tull from the B.C. Watershed Security Coalition: “Where we start to get real concerns is in places like Vancouver Island, where you have almost the entire island in stage five drought.”

The reporter continues: That creates a nightmarish situation where communities that in the past relied on trucking in water from better-resourced neighbors can no longer call on them because the entire region is struggling with drought, she said.

It is hard to believe that any community today would ask its neighbour to send the water trucks … maybe for immediate disaster relief, but not because of gradually dwindling supply. Anyways, it's apparently a nightmarish situation.

Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) recently released it’s pilot version of something called the Rapid Extreme Weather Event Attribution.

This was picked up by CTV News who ran the story, Human-caused climate change made this summer's heat waves 2-10 times more likely: ECCC. CTV included a graphic to show how Western Canadian heatwaves this summer were significantly hotter than they would have been without human-caused climate change:
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​From this we are told that, in Southern British Columbia (a very diverse region that includes moderate coastal and hot interior summers), our peak heat this year topped-out at 29.2 C, which is also apparently 9.2 C warmer than it would have got to prior to 1850.
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In a recent Vancouver Sun story called Environment Canada scientists can now rapidly link heat waves to climate change​ Nathan Gillett from Environment Canada describes his faster Climate Change attribution algorithm:

We’re comparing how often, say, a heat wave as strong as the one we observed in B.C. occurs in the present climate with how often it occurred in the pre-industrial climate without human influence, and we use climate model simulations to do that.

The Sun reporter adds that … where it used to take months to create a report, now they can do it in days. This means that statements like, climate change made B.C.’s 2021 heat dome 150 times more likely, will be available to the media in a more anxiety-timely manner.

They will then be able to quickly involve their UBC contacts, who will provide further sage observations such as that obtained from Lualawi Mareshet Admasu, a PhD candidate in atmospheric sciences: The temperate summers people knew in the 1960s and ’70s have changed drastically, and he said we need to adapt.

A recent story in the Vancouver Sun titled Granville Island tenants worried about lack of plan to combat rising sea levels paints a troubled picture of a flooded future for the beloved multi-functional location. The reporter stresses the fragility of the situation stating: Only a bit of decking and some riprap protect 340 businesses, which employ more than 3,000 people.

The latest cause for alarm is yet another study of the so-called Doomsday Glacier in Antarctica. That paper, Widespread seawater intrusions beneath the grounded ice of Thwaites Glacier, West Antarctica, discusses the influx of tidal water under the transition zone between the grounded glacier and the floating ice shelf extension. It sets out:

The rushing of seawater beneath grounded ice over considerable distances makes the glacier more vulnerable to melting from a warmer ocean than anticipated, which in turn will increase projections of ice mass loss.

That said, the study also conversely reports decreasing rates of glacial retreat:

1.0 km/yr from 1992 to 2011
0.6 km/yr from 2011 to 2018
0.5 km/yr from 2018 to 2023

The BC government is giving 100% of Haida Gwaii to the Haida Nation, who live in 2 villages (Old Masset and Skidegate) with a combined population of about 1,360 (according to Indigenous Services Canada). Another 1,140 or so Haida members live on the islands, off-reserve. Haida Gwai’s total population is around 5,000 – half are Haida members and half are non-members.

According to the Business In Vancouver report, BC's Haida Nation to have title over all of Haida Gwaii, former Attorney General and indigenous treaty expert, Geoff Plant, doesn’t see a problem:

“The result of being able to do this by negotiation is you can be very clear about excluding private land, local government and public infrastructure from this declaration of title, for now,” Plant said.

“They carved out private lands, so that question does not arise right now. There is an ample opportunity over time for the Haida to sort out what the right regime will be for land use and resource use on Haida Gwaii. But the question doesn’t arise today.

“In the long run, these things are going to have to be sorted out, but I don’t think that they are necessarily a problem now.”

A Global News story called Marine heat wave linked to 20% drop in North Pacific humpbacks: Study, asserts that a 2014 anomalous warming event in the North Pacific called The Blob, is linked to a decline in Humpback whale numbers. This arises from a study published by the  Royal Society titled: Bellwethers of change: population modelling of North Pacific humpback whales from 2002 through 2021 reveals shift from recovery to climate response.

The local experts contacted by Global News agree that The Blob was, of course, caused by anthropogenic climate change. It’s just yet another indicator of our impacts as humans … says Karina Dracott of Oceanwise. Jackie Hildring, for the Canadian Pacific Humpback Collaboration (CPHC), adds So just in case anyone is looking for additional motivation to soften the impacts of climate change, here’s another one.

Humpback numbers did drop-off from 2014 but have recovered somewhat since 2019. It is important to note that the long term trend is positive according to this Royal Society study graph and inset:
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​ The Nishnawbe Aski Nation (NAN) consists of 49 member First Nations, 30 of which are in remote Northern Ontario locations and dependent upon the construction of temporary winter roads for supply delivery. On February 9th a press release titled Chiefs Declare Winter Road State of Emergency as Warm Weather Threatens Vital Shipments included:

“The winter road season should be well underway, but temperatures remain unseasonably warm, making them extremely dangerous and unsafe to use. This poses severe safety risks to community members and commercial drivers who are risking their lives for necessary travel,” said Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler. “Our communities rely on these roads for delivering essential goods and our leaders are understandably concerned. We will begin discussions with our federal and provincial Treaty partners immediately to ensure that sufficient freight and road repair subsidies are provided to NAN communities so air transport can be arranged as quickly as possible.”

A February 11th Global News story followed, explaining that Impassable winter roads create 'dire' situations for Ontario First Nations. The Grand Chief was interviewed:

Fiddler said the conditions are the latest example of how climate change, which threatens to make the winter season increasingly shorter and unpredictable, disproportionately impacts First Nations.

Along with subsidies to cover the immediate cost of air transport in the short-term, NAN also want long-term solutions like airport expansions or a permanent highway network to be built. Such projects would obviously be incredibly expensive.