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Waste

Four Vancouver Island municipalities move against single-use plastics

By Francois Macone, Radio Victoria,  CILS 107.9 FM, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

A major victory in the fight for the preservation of the environment. The island municipalities of Victoria, Saanich, Tofino and Ucluelet will see their drive to ban the use of single-use plastic bags officially legitimized by the province, through amendments to the Community Charter, Colombia announced on Saturday. British.

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Disaster, Indigenous Nations

The Squamish Nation’s Great Flood

By Martha Perkins, North Shore News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

High atop Canada’s Western mountain ranges, geologists have been amazed to chance upon the fossils of prehistoric aquatic creatures.

How did remnants of a vast tropical seabed wind up touching the sky?

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Health

COVID spreading in Vancouver’s downtown eastside

By Jen St. Denis, The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

The president of a union that represents hundreds of workers in the Downtown Eastside says not enough is being done to inform residents and  workers about rising levels of COVID-19 exposure in the neighbourhood.

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Rivers & Oceans

Tsilhqot’in community pray for the salmon return

By Rebecca Dyok, The Williams Lake Tribune, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

?Esdilagh First Nation Chief Roy Stump remembers the last time he caught and harvested a salmon.

It was before the wildfires that devastated the Cariboo-Chilcotin region in 2017.

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Community

‘More Justice More Peace’

By Bayleigh Marelj, The Discourse, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

On the morning of Thursday, Aug. 27, Charity Williams woke up to an email from the City of Victoria. It told her that she needed to alter the mural she had organized by noon that day, or they would do it for her. The mural, which is in Victoria’s Bastion Square, was installed by 17 Black, Indigenous and people of colour (BIPOC) artists on Aug. 14. It was funded by a grant from the City Of Victoria. It reads “More Justice More Peace.”

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