Another *last minute amendment* to controversial #Vancouver 2026 Budget.

Mayor Sim, ABC Party majority, and allies have cut $8.2 million from Vancouver's existing retrofit program to make rental buildings less polluting and safer during climate disasters (cooling during #extremeheat)

"The climate crisis is making extreme heat more common, inflicting a deadly toll: the 2021 heat dome alone was responsible for 117 deaths in the city. Buildings are also responsible for about 60% of Vancouver's greenhouse gas emissions, largely because of gas heating." (600+ deaths in B.C. during #BCheatdome)

UBC professor:

"The word 'retrofit' is insufficient to explain the programs Vancouver's ABC part is cutting. It kind of makes it sound like this is a luxury, but cooling and living in a safe home is a human right."

Stand.Earth found, through FOI, trove of emails suggesting "provincial gas utility has had the retrofit program in its crosshairs since at least last year"

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#VanPoli #BChealth

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/news/vancouver-housing-retrofit-cuts

Another #BCheatdome 📜lawsuit launched.

But this one is a class-action lawsuit. It's against Canadian Pacific and Canadian National railways. Several lawsuits were filed after the fire 🔥 that decimated the town of Lytton, BC, during the 2021 heatdome which killed over 600 people throughout B.C.

🌡️Temperatures reached a Canadian record of 49.6 Celsius in Lytton, the day before the fire.

#ClimateChange #FossilFuels

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lytton-bc-fire-class-action-lawsuit-cn-cp-9.7000779

Wrongful death lawsuit launched against 7 oil & gas companies for #BCheatdome of 2021. More than 600 people died.

📜Lawsuit -- launched in Washington state for woman's mother who died in B.C. -- says:

"By 1968, defendants understood that the fossil fuel-dependent economy they were creating and perpetuating would intensify those atmospheric changes, resulting in more frequent and destructive weather disasters and foreseeable loss of human life"🛢️☠️

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#CdnPoli #BCpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/heat-dome-lawsuit-1.7547975

British Columbians may breathe sigh of relief as 2025 Summer temperatures expected to be "near normal" in B.C. The #BCheatdome of 2021 cost $millions in hospital & emergency care and hundreds of lives.

Mapped forecast for central Canada is concerning. Wildfires already started in Manitoba and Ontario.

"What meteorologists consider normal has also changed as the planet warms up, largely due to heat-trapping fossil fuel emissions."

#GlobalWarming #FossilFuels #Canada

https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/manitoba/warm-summer-in-the-forecast-as-droughts-and-wildfire-risks-loom-weather-network/article_2f62e603-cb0c-5991-8ea2-da1170f3f11b.html

Ecotrust Canada report calls for energy-efficient heating and cooling to be protected as a right... asking B.C. municipalities to adopt bylaws requiring rental units to maintain livable temperature ranges during #ExtremeHeat

#BCheatdome 2021 (600+ people died) illustrates #climatechange having an increasing effect on housing security and safety.

Some recommendations are being considered by the B.C. Government and several municipal governments.

#Vancouver #BChealth

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ecotrust-tenant-retrofits-1.7256117

#MarineHeatwave in British Columbia this week. Good info about it and its impact from @CBCnews:

🔻oceans absorbed around 90% excess energy and heat from GHG over 50 yrs
🔻warmer oceans have less oxygen + more pathogens = less food for marine mammals (e.g. whales)
🔻​#extremeheat = mass die-off of sea creatures (#BCheatdome)
🔻contributes to #heatwaves becoming more frequent ​+ intense

#climatechange #GlobalWarming #fossilfuels

Video: http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2255075907621

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/pacific-marine-heat-wave-1.6936075