Local & Provincial Items (September)

Local

  1. Farmers’ Markets:
    Vernon: Mon/Thursday, 8 – 1,     Kal Tire Place.
    Armstrong: Sat., 8:30 am – 12:30 pm, IPE fairgrounds.
    Lumby and District Public Market Oval Park, 9 – 1 pm  until Sept 19, 2026, when the Butter Tart Festival is on!

Provincial

  1. West Coast Climate Action Network shares NDP letter. An open letter from the NDP calls for renewed Provincial climate leadership. Former MLAs, MPs, Indigenous leaders, and community leaders have written to Premier Eby calling to recommit to provincial leadership to make climate action a government priority. To read the letter, go here.

  2. How much water should Nanaimo allow future data centres to use? Nanaimo is in the midst of approving a large data centre. Some people are raising concerns about what this means for a city already worried about fresh water usage. For the Times Colonist story, go here.

  3. British Columbia is logging its last old growth. Protestors camp outside Port Renfrew to protect the small amount of Vancouver Island’s old-growth rainforest, one of the rarest ecosystems on the planet. To read more, go here.

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