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In the Before Times, a friend asked whether I planned to stop flying internationally in order to reduce my carbon footprint due to climate-change concerns. My answer then and now is an emphatic, NO, for a whole bunch of reasons, including that my 20-year-old car has fewer than 60,000 kilometres on it.
Even as fires rage across B.C., much of Western Canada and the United States, I am definitely not a climate-change denier. But here are two reasons why I’m not giving up my few flights each year: Blue Origins’ owner Jeff Bezos, and Virgin Galactic’s Richard Branson.
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One is that Canada’s climate-change policies focus too much on prevention and too little on adaptation. This is doubly sad when you consider that Canada has absolutely no control over the path of climate change. We emit only 1 1/2 per cent of global greenhouse gases (World Resources Institute, 2021, Climate Watch Country Historical Greenhouse Gas Emissions), and many of our expensive climate change policies only nibble at the edges of this amount and do little to prevent the loss of Canadian lives and property.
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A former deputy B.C. attorney general has been tapped to investigate the Vancouver police board’s handling of a review of police street checks, after concerns were raised about the deletion of allegations of police racism and misconduct.
The provincial government has asked David Loukidelis to investigate, among other things, the roles of the Vancouver police board and police department in the production of a review released in February.
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