Roslyn Cassells

Open Public Buildings To Homeless - Surrey Mayor Should Open "People's House" to Homeless People As Temperatures Drop

Roslyn Cassells — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 23:35:50 +0000

Death from exposure, hypothermia constant companions of homelesss people and companion animals

Open public buildings to homeless people and their companion animals, or they might freeze to death on the street, it's that simple.

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River Otter has right to be in Vancouver Parks

Roslyn Cassells — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 22:02:42 +0000

Native Species should be supported, not evicted!

Nov. 26, 2018. The River Otter currently living in Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden, a Vancouver Park Board Park, should be left unmolested by humans!

The current plan to trap and relocated a native species from a Vancouver Park Board public park must be stopped. Native wildlife should be supported, not evicted, from our parks and waterways.

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Homeless South of the Fraser - compassionate solutions

Roslyn Cassells — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 22:32:26 +0000

GreenVote Housing & Homelessness Policy - municipal election BC 2018

October 12, 2018 Hard times south of the Fraser River…Surrey is the second largest city in the province, with a large homeless population and even bigger population of people in core-housing need…living in housing they cannot afford, for which they are sacrificing other basic needs in order to remain housed.

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Feathers Fly at "public" meeting for Surrey Peacocks

Roslyn Cassells — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 19:55:18 +0000

Council and Bylaw on the back foot as residents decry undemocratic inhumane plan!

PEOPLE WANT COEXISTENCE - CITY WANTS ERADICATION July 19, 2018. Despite all attempts at dissuading peacock advocates from attending the July 17 meeting, including threats of arrest and removal of any persons deemed unacceptable by Surrey Bylaw head Jas Rehal, man

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Surrey Peacock Educational Campaign Begins!

Roslyn Cassells — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 03:40:00 +0000

Coexistence over killing...

"Understand, educate, coexist!" is the mantra of wildlife experts when it comes to human-wildlife conflicts. Local residents concerned about the city's lethal plan to trap peafowl in breeding season have started on a plan of their own...one which resonate

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Wildlife expert criticizes Surrey's plan to destroy peacock flock

Roslyn Cassells — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 00:38:32 +0000

Definitely a flawed plan...

"Definitely a flawed plan...wrong time of year and individual trapping is doomed to short and long term failure!" Dave Pauli - Humane Society of the United States - Seni

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Surrey's breeding season trapping leads to Ministry of Environment and BCSPCA investigations

Roslyn Cassells — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 22:49:12 +0000

Poorly thought out plan will injure and kill the Sullivan peacocks

June 26, 2018. Surrey City Council last night forceably removed residents hoping to speak to council about the report on the peacock eradication plan the city approved in last night's council meeting. The citizens, who had been in contact with council and byl

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Surrey proceeds with road construction during breeding season of endangered species

Roslyn Cassells — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 01:47:05 +0000

Local activist speaking for animals denied standing in BC Supreme Court on Jan. 8 2018

Media release – Jan. 9, 2018 in Surrey, BC. With regret a Supreme Court judge ruled Monday against a local woman’s petition to halt construction on a North Surrey park, home to a number of endangered, threatened, at risk, of special concern, and provincially blue and red-listed species.

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Local woman gets Supreme Court date to hear case of SARA violations by City of Surrey - Monday January 8 at 9:45am

Roslyn Cassells — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 00:08:35 +0000

Species at risk in Hawthorne Park defended by local environmentalist

Local community activist and teacher Roslyn Cassells today won an early court date to demand the City of Surrey do their duty towards wildlife and the local ecology in the hotly disputed Hawthorne Park road construction project, which would bisect the north Surrey nature park putting lives and habitats at risk. The case for injunctive relief will be heard in New Westminster Supreme C

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Wildlife - the forgotten victims of Site C dam in northeastern BC

Roslyn Cassells — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 23:37:05 +0000

NDP/Green alliance proceed with Canada's most ecologically devastating project ever approved

The newly elected BC NDP/Green Party alliance in British Columbia has shown their true colours today when they gave the go-ahead to the most ecologically devastating project ever approved in Canada to date - ignoring the laws of the land which protect nature and indigenous rights, to pursue their political ambitions with complete disregard to their duty to the people of BC and

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Watch your back fucker

Roslyn Cassells — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:17:43 +0000

karma will be a bitch

Watch Your Back Fucker

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Give me your solidarity not your charity

Roslyn Cassells — Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:03:57 +0000

Structural change not spare change

Give me your solidarity,
not your charity.
Policy changes,
not your cast-off clothes.

Safe, affordable housing - not a mat on the floor
Public transport and health care for all...
Access to higher education
based on merit, not money.

Justice for my sisters
on the highway of tears and everywhere

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Love us not

Roslyn Cassells — Mon, 09 Nov 2015 23:20:18 +0000

on being poor and homeless

Love us not

Government policies, public opinion, some former friends, and even family...if you are poor, they love you not.

Carefully designed policies and rules exclude, defund, detach, reject, and disrespect our humanity...and with the sweep of a pen we are out...of our homes, out of money, out of programs, out of consideration.

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Splitting the Sky died March 13 2013

Roslyn Cassells — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 23:02:14 +0000

Indigenous sovereigntist, prison justice activist, human rights and ecojustice warrior

In the highest of honour I will remember Splitting the Sky who died suddenly March 13 2013 in Adam's Lake, BC.

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Rabbit rescue groups launch campaign to save 800 rabbits in Canmore, Alberta

Roslyn Cassells — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:01:48 +0000

Town of Canmore plans to begin gassing rabbits as advocates rush to save lives

Positive Solution to Save Canmore Rabbits, a working group campaigning to save the approximately 800 abandoned pet rabbits in Canmore, Alberta, has launched a letter-writing campaign, and are considering a boycott should the town take draconian action against the resident rabbits while non-lethal alternatives are available at no cost to the town.

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