Description

It’s another emergency, both in BC and in the Federal Green Party

Segment 1: Emergency

• EmergencyInfoBC
• BC wildfires: quick statistics | BC Gov News
• Despite wildfires and heatwave threats, B.C. has never used Canada’s cellphone alert system
• BC declares state of emergency as wildfires grow, forcing more evacuations
• Metro Vancouver saw 15 times more heat wave deaths than estimated during unprecedented alert

Segment 2: Green Party

• Struggle for control of Green party heads to court  
• Thread on the lawsuit
• Elizabeth May statement
• Dimitri Lascaris launches Green Left Canada
• Background story on Zatzman

Quick takes

• Nova Scotians head to the polls Aug. 17
• Nisga'a Nation and partners propose new $10B LNG megaproject in B.C.
• New rules protect young workers
• Background on age of work in BC
• Penticton goes to court over B.C.-run homeless shelter in city
• Renaming places: how Canada is reexamining the map