Sonia Furstenau on improving the early childhood education system

B.C. Green Party leader says she favours moving early childhood education into the public education system so that affordability isn’t a barrier to learning. CBC News Sept 25 2020

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Furstenau promises to create resiliency strategy to better use, share resources

Sonia Furstenau would create a resilience strategy for the province, her leadership campaign announced in late July, as she prepares for the election to decide who will lead the BC Green Party. Furstenau’s platform focused on improving the resilience of…

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[Op-ed] Sonia Furstenau: Plan for reopening schools leaving too many students behind

It is hard to imagine the burden on decision makers who are having to determine the steps we take in the midst of a global pandemic. The considerations they can weigh and prioritize would seem both limitless and relentlessly shifting. As a…

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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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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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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 candidate’s leadership 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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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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