The courts rejected BC s bid to force places of worship to follow health
orders. Double standard?
Amanda Follett Hosgood lives and writes amidst the stunning mountains and rivers of Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Twitter @amandajfollett. SHARES The same judge who refused to grant an injunction against churches defying COVID-19 health orders granted one against Vancouver’s Crab Park homeless camp in June 2020.
Photo by Jonathan Hayward, the Canadian Press.
Why did the BC Supreme Court refuse to issue an injunction ordering churches to stop flouting COVID-19 orders while regularly agreeing to industry requests for injunctions to use against protesters?
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From street level, West Coast Reduction cuts an imposing presence on Vancouver’s waterfront. Across the railway tracks at the north end of Commercial Drive, ranks of towering storage tanks surround the massive blocks of its industrial plant.
Looking down on an aerial view from Google Maps, however, the tanks and buildings look a little hemmed in by container yards of the terminals that surround it, which is exactly how owners of the decades-old agricultural rendering plant feel these days.
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Industry special interests wish to disparage the port authority to secure a new lease for a privately owned food waste processing and manufacturing plant in Vancouver, and unfortunately former premier Mike Harcourt didn’t reach out to the port authority for the other side of the story. We are not forcing the agricultural sector out of the port.
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Grain shipments are up about 25 per cent this year, and the agricultural sector has been driving significant growth in container trade, exporting legumes, fruit, seafood, meat, and more. Port authorities are federal government agencies. We don’t create trade, but we must accommodate it. We must also protect the environment and local communities from the impacts of trade challenges with multipl
GCT Deltaport Celebrates Completion of Final Tracks at Deltaport Intermodal Rail Yard
GCT Canada is pleased to announce the completion of the final two tracks of the GCT Deltaport Intermodal Rail Yard Expansion Project, which sets GCT Deltaport apart as the most efficient and capable ship-to-rail discharge facility in the world.
The GCT Deltaport Intermodal Rail Yard Expansion Project is the second, $300 million privately-funded stage of the multi-phased expansion Deltaport Terminal Road and Rail Improvement Project (DTRRIP), a collaboration with the Port Authority and the Province of British Columbia. The densification approach to this project demonstrates GCT’s commitment to increasing capacity within our existing footprint and minimizing operational and environmental impacts on the surrounding community.