Stefan Labbe
Solutions Journalist at Glacier Media Group
Reporter at Burnaby Now
Covering Climate & Environment for Glacier Media. Words in @guardian @NewsHour @globeandmail | Tips? [email protected] | Threads at stefan_labbe
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castanet.net | Cindy White |Rob Gibson |Wolfgang Depner |Stefan Labbe
A federal Crown corporation is loaning BC Ferries $1 billion to help buy four Chinese-made ferries, a purchase that federal transport minister Chrystia Freeland recently said was dismaying and should involve no federal funds. Canada Infrastructure Bank confirmed the loan on Thursday, saying the new electric ferries "wouldn't likely be purchased" without the financing.
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castanet.net | Cindy White |Rob Gibson |Colin Dacre |Stefan Labbe
As kids across the province prepare for the start of the summer holidays, the BC Highway Patrol is taking the unusual step of debunking online rumours about school zones. BC Highway Patrol issued a news release on Thursday with the headline “No, school zones are not changing to 24/7”. “Some disreputable websites are claiming that all Canadian school zones will be in effect 24/7 starting July 1, 2025.
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castanet.net | Cindy White |Rob Gibson |Colin Dacre |Stefan Labbe
An accident at a dry dock on Vancouver Island that caused significant damage to Canada’s most-advanced military submarine five years ago was caused by a series of avoidable failures, newly uncovered records show. The full details of those failures, which have previously gone unreported, include a lack of key equipment, a breakdown in communication and pressure to complete a critical test more quickly because of a local noise bylaw that may not have even applied.
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castanet.net | Cindy White |Rob Gibson |Colin Dacre |Stefan Labbe
A B.C. judge has turned down a proposed class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of a group of people allegedly subjected to unlawful police conduct while protesting old-growth logging on Vancouver Island. The case stems from 2020, when the B.C. government granted Teal Cedar Products Ltd. permits to log timber in the Fairy Creek watershed, part of Tree Farm Licence 46.
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castanet.net | Darren Handschuh |Stefan Labbe |Wolfgang Depner |Graeme Wood
A federal judge has turned down a legal challenge against Woodfibre LNG over an approval to re-purpose a cruise ship housing workers brought in to build a major liquefied natural gas facility near Squamish, B.C. The advocacy group Citizens for My Sea to Sky had sought a judicial review of a federal decision that granted the company the ability to amend its environmental authorizations to accommodate the parked ship, dubbed the “floatel.” The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada had approved...
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