South Island old growth logging protesters not blinking at criminal charges The blockades on logging roads in the Fairy Creek Watershed are about to mark one year (Aug. 9) of working to prevent licence-holder Teal Cedar from logging old-growth trees. Arrests have topped 500, and the standoff north of Port Renfrew on southern Vancouver Island […]
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‘Please tell someone:’ Langford woman whose mother was murdered begs abuse survivors to get help
‘I didn’t believe this could happen to my mom either, but it did’ Warning: This article contains content some readers will find triggering When Jacquie Bartlett heard her mother’s hushed whisper on the phone, she knew something was wrong. Her normally vivacious mother started calling only when her husband was out of the house they […]
Women hobby farmers are part of a food revolution
Raising livestock and families: the young women farmers of Sooke Kristy Sivorot does not shy away from hard work. She’s a nurse, a mother of two, a homeschool teacher for the last year, and a livestock farmer on the Sooke and Metchosin border. She didn’t grow up on a farm. She never had to collect […]
Behind the line at Fairy Creek: Inside B.C.’s old-growth forest battleground
There’s surprising activity happening behind the lines at the Fairy Creek old-growth protest sites On a hot Wednesday afternoon, while RCMP attempted to control about 40 protesters supporting their comrades in “hard blocks” at the Waterfall blockade, one part of the Fairy Creek watershed protest, three people were bushwhacking down the mountain out of sight […]
Vancouver Island farmer shares secret for inventing a new potato
Using seeds anyone can name their own variety Ever hear that to grow potatoes you just cut up any old tuber and plant the pieces? Well, you certainly can plant tubers, though they’re far more productive if planted whole, but what about planting potatoes by seed? Growing potatoes from potatoes gives a genetically identical product, […]
Families displaced by fire still looking for housing
The suspicious January fire dispossessed 15 families in Port Hardy ZOE DUCKLOW, LOCAL JOURNALISM INITIATIVE REPORTER Feb. 3, 2021, 3:52 p.m. Published in the North Island Gazette Two weeks after a fire ripped through an apartment in Port Hardy, the six families still looking for new homes are drawing attention to the housing shortage on […]
How a Team of Women Helped Make BC a World Leader in Treating Postpartum Depression
Forty years ago, one doctor noticed new moms weren’t getting help they needed. It led to a revolution in care. Shaila Misri was finishing her residency at Vancouver General Hospital in 1978, working long hours in the obstetrics ward, when she noticed something troubling. The women who came into the ward with physical problems were […]
Human-altered Landscapes: Visions of the Anthropocene
It was two years ago, while hovering over the Niger Delta in a two-dollar-per-second rented helicopter that Edward Burtynsky saw an oil-soaked scene of apocalyptic scale. Images of oily waterways flicker in dull rainbow hues; landscapes shine black and are littered with scorched trees; a boat speeds away from the helicopter. He had heard about […]
New York Times’ Daily 360 video: Spelunking for Antibiotics
It can take decades of research and more than billions of dollars to create a new antibiotic drug. Sometimes, the first step of the process starts underground, deep inside a mountain. I filmed this video with Emily McCarty, and Tim Chaffee and Nathan Griffiths did the editing.
Everything you want to know about the Site C dam — answered
It’s been two months since we promised to dive deep into the Site C dam and asked what you want to know about the megaproject. We’ve tackled the big questions: Is it past the point of no return? Why did the BC Liberal government block independent review of the project? We also looked at what First […]