Greens Push Pilot Project to Offer Mental Health Support under MSP

B.C.’s looming mental health crisis has experts and government searching for new solutions for British Columbians hit by the pandemic. “We’re coming to terms with the fact that health and mental health are not separate from each other,” said Green…

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Collaborating to Solve the Overdose Crisis

Leadership is about bringing people in and working together to find solutions to common concerns. Sonia believes that collaboration with others who care deeply about their community helps to yield more effective results, as every person brings another lens to…

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Furstenau releases leadership campaign platform on climate and resource resilience

COWICHAN VALLEY, BC – Sonia Furstenau, MLA for Cowichan Valley, released another plank of her leadership platform as part of her bid to be the next leader of the B.C. Green Party. The platform focused on improving the resilience of…

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Ending the systemic racism in our child welfare system

When Sonia became an MLA in 2017, she saw that one of the biggest issues in her riding of Cowichan Valley was the over-representation of Indigenous children who are apprehended from their families and placed in state care.  In BC,…

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B.C. government failing to register groundwater users, say critics

VICTORIA — Only 20 per cent of people in B.C. who use wells to get their water have bothered to register under the province’s new mandatory groundwater law. The low enrolment, which comes four and a half years after B.C. passed…

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David Suzuki supports Furstenau’s candidacy and four-day work week proposal

VANCOUVER, BC – David Suzuki is speaking out in support of BC Green leadership candidate Sonia Furstenau’s candidacy and her proposal to explore a four-day work week in BC. Furstenau published a video message from Suzuki today. “When the David…

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B.C. Greens: NDP government should cancel Site C project

The B.C. Green party has challenged the provincial NDP government’s stance that the controversial Site C Dam must go ahead because it has gone past “the point of no return,” calling for the province to abandon the project. Green MLA…

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May backs Sonia Furstenau for leadership of B.C. Greens

“Sonia is a proven leader,” May said. “She’s extremely articulate, eloquent, brilliant, sharp, also courageous. She is someone who stands up and speaks out on behalf of our natural world. She’s a champion for water. And I know with Sonia…

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Cowichan Valley MLA joins Facebook advertising boycott

Sonia Furstenau, the MLA for Cowichan Valley, announced that her BC Green Party leadership campaign will not be advertising on Facebook this month as part of the Stop Hate for Profit campaign, which calls on the California-based social media company to take…

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Green recovery key part of Green leadership candidate’s platform

Sonia Furstenau has made a green recovery from COVID-19 the second plank in her campaign for the leadership of the provincial party. The Cowichan Valley MLA’s plan is a strategy for renewal that focuses on livable communities, a green industrial…

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