National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Communities are staging protests across B.C. on Friday, urging the province to protect at-risk old-growth ecosystems from logging and to establish a new forestry framework.
Continue reading Communities staging protests across BCNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
I’m keen to get that vaccine. That’s Sulyn Cedar’s new mantra.
“I like that phrase because it rhymes,” says the Quadra Island senior and self-described earth-activist grandma with a laugh.
Continue reading Quadra and Cortes welcome vaccination roll-outNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Some intercity bus companies on Vancouver Island are going to be fuelled by a $10.7-million COVID-19 cash injection from the B.C. government over the next year.
But it’s still unclear if the rubber will hit the road in a number of rural, remote North Island communities that had non-existent or inadequate intercity service even prior to the pandemic.
Continue reading Intercity buses are getting a boost, what about remote communities?National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
B.C.’s forestry minister made clear a moratorium on old-growth logging is off the table as she responded to critics of the government’s progress on a promise to overhaul its approach to forestry.
BC Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau pressed Minister Katrine Conroy during question period last week to outline what meaningful actions government was taking to immediately protect critical old-growth forests, suggesting instead that the NDP was employing the “old strategy of talk and log.”
Continue reading BC will not impose a moratorium on old-growth loggingNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Premier John Horgan is getting failing grades when it comes to protecting B.C.’s old-growth forests, according to a report card issued by a coalition of environmental groups on Thursday.
Continue reading BC is getting failing grades in forestry, report says
