By Louis Belcourt, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
“Quizzing is a big part my life. I’ve been doing it pretty consistently for about 15 years now.”
Benji Duke is bringing his famed Pub Quiz event all the way from Victoria to the Mansons Landing Community Hall on Cortes this Saturday evening.
Continue reading Renowned quizmaster brings trivia event all the way from Victoria to Cortes Island
By Matt Simmons, The Narwhal, Local Journalism Initiative reporter
Under an early November snowfall, a tense standoff slowly unfolded between Coastal GasLink security workers, RCMP and Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief Na’moks.
“If you pass this gate, sir, my understanding is that you will be arrested by the RCMP,” a pipeline security guard told the Chief and his supporters. He was standing in front of a yellow gate across the access road to where the company is drilling under Wedzin Kwa (Morice River) about two kilometres away.
Continue reading ‘You will be arrested’: Coastal GasLink security denies Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief access to monitor project construction
By Greg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
The Cortes Community Forest Cooperative (CCFC) is hoping to reduce logging on Cortes Island by developing more wood products locally.
The organization, in partnership with the local Klahoose First Nation, holds a community forest tenure with the BC Ministry of Forests, covering about 30 per cent of the crown land on the island, according to CCFC President Carrie Saxifrage. Each year the partnership needs to harvest a demonstrable portion of trees under its tenure.
Continue reading Community Forest Cooperative seeks proposals to create products from local woodGreg Osoba, CKTZ News, through an LJI grant from Canada-info.ca
Cortes Island’s fire chief was dismissed this week ahead after five months on the job.
Dave Ives was a few weeks shy of completing his six month probation as chief of the Cortes Island Volunteer Fire Department.
Continue reading Volunteer Fire Department chief let go by the organization’s board of directors
By Mina Kerr-Lazenby, North Shore News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Like all great love affairs, the one that occurred between myself and Vancouver’s public transit system was brief and tumultuous. It was a summer fling that began at the tail-end of August, when I, like a gazillion British people before me, moved to the city in search of great landscapes, good people, and endless poutine.
Continue reading Newcomer to Vancouver: Transit like waiting for a flaky date
