Funding for Royal BC Museum misspent
For immediate release May 17, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – In response to the BC NDP announcing $789M in funds to rebuild the Royal BC Museum...
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BC Green Caucus
- May 3
Furstenau: Coroners Report on drug poisonings is tragic evidence that more action is needed
For immediate release May 3, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Today’s BC Coroners Service report revealed that in March 2022, 165 people in B.C....
BC Green Caucus
- Apr 28
Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act report tabled
For immediate release April 28, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Today, the Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act released their final...
BC Green Caucus
- Apr 12
Furstenau: Record-setting deaths from toxic drugs need urgent action
For immediate release April 12, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Today’s BC Coroners Service report revealed that in February 2022, 174 people in...
BC Green Caucus
- Apr 5
Furstenau: British Columbians left in the dark with a rising sixth wave
For immediate release April 5, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Sonia Furstenau, Leader of the B.C. Greens and MLA for Cowichan Valley, has issued...
BC Green Caucus
- Apr 4
Furstenau: IPCC Report underscores urgent need for government to end fossil fuel subsidies
For immediate release April 4, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Sonia Furstenau responds to the release of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate...
BC Green Caucus
- Mar 30
MLA Olsen responds to introduction of DRIPA Action Plan
For immediate release March 30, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Today, the BC NDP announced the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act...
BC Green Caucus
- Mar 29
Furstenau: Homebuyer protections are a drop in the bucket as we combat the housing crisis
For immediate release March 28, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Today, the BC NDP introduced changes to the Property Law Act to implement a...
BC Green Caucus
- Mar 10
BC Green leader responds to lifting of mandates
For immediate release March 10th, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – In response to the province announcing an end to the use of the provincial mask...
BC Green Caucus
- Mar 9
Furstenau: All-party committee on toxic drug supply to be given terms of reference
For immediate release March 9th, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Sonia Furstenau, leader of the B.C. Greens and MLA for Cowichan Valley, has issued...
BC Green Caucus
- Mar 9
Furstenau responds to Coroner’s Death Review Panel on Drug Toxicity
For immediate release March 9, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Today, the BC Coroners Service reported the recommendations of the Death Review...
BC Green Caucus
- Mar 1
Furstenau: 15,000 businesses at risk as groundwater licensing deadline passes
For immediate release March 1, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – In acknowledgement of the deadline to register for groundwater licensing in B.C.,...
BC Green Caucus
- Feb 24
Furstenau: Activating committees builds trust and political consensus to tackle overlapping crises
For immediate release February 24, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – After rising in the House to speak to the motion on Select Standing Committees,...
BC Green Caucus
- Feb 15
Speaker rules against question of privilege over misleading FOI statements from government
For immediate release February 15th, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Today, the Speaker of the House ruled against a question of privilege...
BC Green Caucus
- Feb 9
Green MLA raises question of privilege over government’s misleading FOI statement
For immediate release February 9th, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – In response to a question of privilege he raised pointing to the Minister of...
BC Green Caucus
- Feb 9
Furstenau: Record-setting deaths from toxic drugs requires urgency
For immediate release February 9th, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Today, the BC Coroners Service reported the total number of deaths in 2021 due...
BC Green Caucus
- Jan 31
Furstenau: Response to anti-vaccine mandate protests
For immediate release January 31st, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – In response to the recent anti-vaccine mandate protests, Sonia Furstenau,...
BC Green Caucus
- Jan 27
Furstenau: Updated data needed on age of people hospitalized with COVID-19
For immediate release January 27th, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Sonia Furstenau, leader of the B.C. Greens and MLA for Cowichan Valley has...
BC Green Caucus
- Jan 25
Furstenau: Watershed security strategy and fund a step in the right direction
For immediate release January 25th, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy announced it is...
BC Green Caucus
- Jan 18
Furstenau: Clarity, not confusion needed from BC NDP on COVID-19
For immediate release January 18th, 2022 VICTORIA, B.C. – Sonia Furstenau, leader of the B.C. Greens and MLA for Cowichan Valley has...