By Mina Kerr-Lazenby, North Shore News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) has announced it will adopt the same protections used for rental homes throughout the province for Sen̓áḵw, its high-density project at Kits point, and all future on-reserve housing developments.
Continue reading Squamish Nation to use BC residential tenancy protections for own housing developments
By Natasha Bulowski, Canada’s National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
As the world uses more and more wood over the next few decades, the planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions associated with logging will rise, new research predicts.
Yet many of these emissions are not currently attributed to the logging industry because widely used accounting methods leave the impression that wood harvests only marginally increase carbon emissions or don’t increase them at all, according to new research published in Nature.
Continue reading Logging pollution is on the rise — but don’t expect to find it on the accounting books
By Aaron Hemens, The Discourse, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
For the 22nd year in a row, syilx Okanagan people took a canoe journey across the invisible border between “Canada” and the “United States” that divides their territory — challenging a colonial marker that continues to infringe upon their unceded homelands.
Dozens of pullers hauled at least 10 boats, including several dugout canoes, to the shore of nk’mip (Osoyoos Lake) in sw̓iw̓s (Osoyoos) in syilx homelands on Tuesday. The group sailed through the lake’s waters on the way to Oroville, Washington, before returning later in the day.
Continue reading Canoe journey crosses colonial border, upholding syilx sovereignty: ‘this is still our territory’
By Fabian Dawson, New Canadian Media, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Canada’s newly unveiled approach to attract foreign tech talent is being met with angst in America while being heralded as a game changer for the country’s emerging technologies, according to experts.
But for the multi-pronged Tech Talent Strategy to work, Canada needs to ensure that there is a clear and predictable pathway toward obtaining permanent residency, said immigration experts and IT consultants.
Continue reading Angst in America as Canada launches new plan to poach foreign tech workersOriginally published in the Cortes Island Seniors Society Newsletter
By Andy Vine
I was born April 1944 in Swansea, Wales. I grew up in Hoylake, a coastal town in Cheshire after my Dad was pensioned off from the Ministry of Food where he had worked during the war.
I had a happy childhood with one elder sister Sue and a younger brother Pete. We lived in a small hotel (big house) which my parents ran as a business.
Continue reading Recollections of an Aging Hippy
