The Provincial government has quietly announced that it intends to implement the BC Land Act Proposed Amendments, and is asking for public input before the end of March 2024. The changes would give First Nations power to co-govern what takes place on land and water they have claimed as their traditional territory. This would pretty much include all of British Columbia.

A sneak preview of what’s in store is provided by a pilot project that has been in existence for a few years now, with respect to the shíshálh (Sechelt) Nation. The shíshálh Nation / British Columbia Foundation Agreement was signed in 2018. A thorough reading of the document makes it clear that the BC government believes that the shíshálh have title rights over the territory they called swiya.

Prior to the co-governance Foundation Agreement, the shíshálh had already published their own Land Use Plan called lil xemit tems swiya nelh mes stutula which remains current today. In that document the swiya is broken into Forestry (pink), Cultural (orange), Conservation (green), and Stewardship (grey) designations:

​The lands actually owned by the shíshálh at the time of this plan, are shown in brown.
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From NASA Analysis Confirms 2023 as Warmest Year on Record, we see that most of Canada is in the red.

​2023 was Earth’s warmest year since modern record-keeping began around 1880, and the past 10 consecutive years have been the warmest 10 on record. -NASA
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The news is apparently even more onerous for us. According to Natural Resources Canada: Canada is warming faster than the world as a whole — at more than twice the global rate — and the Canadian Arctic is warming at about three times the global rate.

That accelerated pace is often repeated in the media and by authorities such as Geography Professor, Gordon McBean. Last summer CTV News ran the story Canada warming twice as fast as rest of planet, Western University environment expert says:

“When we talk about 1.5 degrees, that’s 3 degrees in Canada, and we’re projecting now that it looks like it could go to 2.5 degrees globally, which could be 5 degrees in Canada by the end of this century,” he said.
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The latest in a litany of stories about last year’s record heat, is the CBC piece titled The year 2023 was one of the warmest on record for the Maritimes. It begins by stating: The year 2023 was by the far the warmest on record for the planet.

Amplifying that implied crisis, the article adds: In terms of average temperatures, 2023 was the fourth consecutive year that temperatures in the region have ranked in the top five to 10 warmest.

This visual is then provided:​
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​An article in the January 3, 2024, North Shore News titled December 2023 likely warmest on record for North Shore was accompanied by a picture of oceanside sandbagging. The December 28th King Tide passed without incident, yet the subsequent story still used the image to convey environmental drama:

​Obviously, the intent was to link December temperatures with global warming, and in turn sea level rise. The orange Tiger Dam imprints a sense of emergency. Although the reporter knew the flooding never came to pass, she needed a visual hook.
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Net-Zero was all the buzz in 2023, and it sounds so friendly. Not Absolute-Zero or Rock-Bottom-Zero … lots of wiggle room in a Net-Zero future, right?

Boomer grandparents assume an abundance of wiggle room when they claim to support efforts to reduce CO2, because they are concerned about the overheating world they are leaving to their grandchildren. If they truly believe that the world is being destroyed by fossil fuels, why are they doing nothing about their own product consumption and jet travel lifestyles? Little Johnny’s life is at stake! They are hypocrites.

Maybe they secretly agree with the view that warming is just a part of a natural cycle. Since the Little Ice Age (1300 to 1850) the Earth’s temperature is apparently up by 1.5C. The crisis narrative says this is bad and it’s man’s fault. From this we must accept that if man wasn’t around the Earth would have remained locked into the final stage of a minor ice age forever, and that the temperature coming out of that cold period was optimal for the planet.

You don’t want to argue such things though, and be ostracized as a Denier.
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What is Art? At the Vancouver Art Gallery (VAG) it apparently includes an exhibit called Conceptions of White. Take the Curator Walkthrough available on that webpage to get a better understanding.

You will be exposed to the standard disturbing images of the Ku Klux Klan, a lynch mob, and a White-trash male shouting racial abuse at a Black policewoman. Another display called Ancient Hair presents collage-like cut-outs pinned to a sheet of paper with handwritten side-notes including: When were white people invented?

​That grade-school-quality presentation suggests that hair curliness demonstrates that the classical Greek and Roman cultures may not have been White. It is courtesy of respected historian Nell Irvin Painter, who also wrote the book History of White People.
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The City of Vancouver planners are going forward with Imagine West End Waterfront. This plan involves serious geo-engineering including raising Sunset and English Bay beaches about a metre, burying the seawall in non-beach areas, and creating marsh land along with a couple of small islands.

The impetus behind the project is decolonization of the foreshore, as well as flood-proofing against anticipated sea level rise (SLR). On page 4 of the City’s Information Booklet a map of the waterfront shows the flooding envisioned with 1.2 metres (120 cm) of SLR at high tide, during a 1-in-200 year storm event. The existing beaches, seawall, and lower grass areas would be partially inundated, however there is no risk of infrastructure damage outside of the park boundaries given that Beach Ave. is several metres above the seawall.

The City’s exaggerated 120 cm scenario for future SLR stems from the Provincial Government’s outdated Change in Sea Level in B.C. (1910 - 2014) which actually forecast 26 to 98 cm SLR by 2100. That prediction was based on global modelling and not on local, real, observations that show relative sea level rise at the Vancouver Harbour station of only 3.7 cm ↑ per 100 years.

The BC Government’s Drought Information website currently displays the following warning banner:

B.C. is experiencing severe drought conditions. Learn more about the Province's response to severe drought, the current drought conditions in your area, and what you can do.

If you then click onto the Drought Information Portal you are presented with this photograph:

This succinctly illustrates the disturbing impact of drought in our province, right? Is the abandoned boat washed-up above what used to be the shoreline of Osoyoos Lake? Maybe it lies useless along a dried-up river bank near Cache Creek?

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Canada Post is currently informing us through a major TV / online public relations campaign, that regular and expedited delivery services within Canada are now carbon-neutral:

For every tonne of greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) generated by domestic Regular ParcelTM and Expedited ParcelTM deliveries, we remove one tonne of CO2e from the atmosphere by purchasing high-quality, verified and accredited carbon offsets. The environmental projects supported by carbon offset purchases remove the same amount of carbon from the atmosphere generated by parcel delivery.

Canada Post sets out that their carbon offset investments involve preserving a large area of BC coastal lands in the Great Bear Rainforest (GBR):

We are supporting the Great Bear Forest Carbon Project. The project protects forests that were previously available for logging, which conserves and grows existing carbon stocks and reduces emissions caused by harvesting, road building and other forestry operations. The project is wholly owned by a unique alliance of First Nations, creating jobs for the future, and protecting the Great Bear Rainforest.
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A recent BC-CTV story on the “housing crisis” in Vancouver is titled: 'Bold action' coming on housing, Vancouver mayor says. The gist of Mayor Sim’s bold action is building more units, faster:

"We have a supply and demand imbalance in the city of Vancouver. How we address that is we build more housing. If we do not build more housing, this will get worse," Sim said.

Sim’s announcement comes after BC Housing Minister, Ravi Kahlon, set out new building targets in his September 26, 2023, press release and selected 10 municipalities to start:
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• City of Abbotsford – 7,240 housing units
• City of Delta – 3,607 housing units
• City of Kamloops – 4,236 housing units
• District North Vancouver – 2,838 housing units
• District of Oak Bay – 664 housing units
• City of Port Moody – 1,694 housing units
• District of Saanich – 4,610 housing units
• City of Vancouver – 28,900 housing units
• City of Victoria – 4,902 housing units
• District of West Vancouver – 1,432 housing units