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The view of Victoria Harbour and the Olympic Mountains yesterday morning — sorry, Alberta, but the smoke is courtesy global climate change (Photo: David J. Climenhaga).

We have met the enemy and he is us — Alberta in the midst of a climate damn emergency

VICTORIA — The world is waking up to the fact the climate emergency is, well, an emergency.

This certainly isn’t good news for Alberta, although, perversely, it may be good news in the short term of the United Conservative Party of Premier Jason Kenney and governments like his in other petroleum dependent jurisdictions.

As climate change makes things worse for millions, governments in heavily impacted places will become more aggressive with jurisdictions and businesses they view as contributing to the problem.

“This is a climate damn emergency,” an exasperated California Governor Gavin Newsom said the other day as he promised to fast-track the state’s planned transition to 100-per-cent renewable energy. This does not bode well for Alberta’s oil, no matter how ethical we pretend it is.

And the climate damn emergency is hard to deny. The west coast of the United States is aflame. What may be the hottest ambient air temperature in human history, 54 and a half degrees Celsius, was recorded in Death Valley this summer. Serious people are suggesting it may not be long before millions of people in the United States face becoming climate refugees.

You don’t have to go to California to see that it’s real, either. You just have to sniff the air here in British Columbia’s capital these past few days.

It’s said here this will win help Joe…

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VICTORIA — When I was growing up here in Lotusland,

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Death toll from fall of Montreal statue still stands at zero, but apoplectic Wexiters may be at risk

The death toll from the fall of John A. Macdonald’s

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We have met the enemy and he is us — Alberta in the midst of a climate damn emergency

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Alberta takes over as Canada’s political Crazytown; privatized health care suffers a setback

VICTORIA — When I was growing up here in Lotusland, British Columbia had the reputation of being the Crazytown of Canadian politics. The late Allan Fotheringham, the Vancouver Sun columnist

Order saying Alberta schools won’t have to enforce social distancing lands like a sucker punch

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Kaycee Madu, no stellar cabinet performer, is promoted to where he can do less harm; other stars fall

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So long and see you soon — AlbertaPolitics.ca will shut down for a week

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Death toll from fall of Montreal statue still stands at zero, but apoplectic Wexiters may be at risk

The death toll from the fall of John A. Macdonald’s statue in Montreal Saturday still stands at zero, the gods be praised. One would have thought it was much higher,

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OK, Canada’s good to go for those 3M medical masks — at least until Donald Trump changes his mind again

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Canadian Politics / Death toll from fall of Montreal statue still stands at zero, but apoplectic Wexiters may be at risk

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Alberta takes over as Canada’s political Crazytown; privatized health care suffers a setback

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