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Links to select written articles gleaned from various local media outlets within our FM broadcast area as of 7:33 AM on Sat, Mar 29, 2025.

(Preference is given to articles from, or about, the Discovery Islands and, for the sake of brevity, the number of articles cited limited to 12.)

Cortes Currents – (Canada’s Emissions) Are Oil and Gas emissions holding Canada back from reaching its climate goals? – Aside from the two COVID Years,  Canada’s emissions haven’t been this low for 27 years. Methane emissions have dropped 33% over the past decade and conventional oil emissions are also lower but, because of the oil sands, the gas and oil sector’s emissions rose 7% 

Cortes Currents/Greenpeace – (2025 Election) Mark Carney versus Pierre Poilievre on climate change policy (and other stuff) – A comparisom of their positions on the consumer and industrial carbon price, integrating climate into environmental assessments of larger projects, the proposed cap on pollution from the oil sector, the capital gains tax, queer and trans rights.

Powell River Peak – (Farewell message) Outgoing North Island-Powell River MP reflects on three terms–  Rachel Blaney spent nearly 10 years in office representing the riding and serving the needs of constituents

Campbell River Mirror – (2025 Election) Poilievre stops in Campbell River while on the campaign trail – Conservative Party of Canada Leader Pierre Poilevre made a brief stop in Campbell River on March 28 while on the campaign trail. Poilievre was at the Maritime Heritage Centre, where his family toured the museum.

MyCampbellRiverMirror – (2025 Election) Federal Conservative leader visits Vancouver Island on brief tour – Federal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre was on a whirlwind tour of Vancouver Island today, stopping in several communities to support his Island candidates: Nanimo, Parksville, Campbell River.

MyCampbellRiverNow – (Housing) New housing coming to Campbell River hospital for health pros, patient families – Just Like Home Lodge is an expansion of a service the Strathcona Regional District (SRD) and Campbell River Hospital Foundation have been providing since 2019, giving family members of patients a temporary place to stay. 20 rooms for doctors and nurses, 10 rooms for travellors

Cortes Currents/Canadian Energy Centre (AKA – Alberta’s Energy ‘War Room’) – (Trump’s tariffs)  Explainer: Why Canadian oil is so important to the United States – In 2024, Canada supplied 62 per cent of American oil imports, with Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela together supplying just 14 per cent, according to the EIA.

Cortes Currents/Canadian Energy Centre – (Pipelines) U.S. tariffs or not, Canada needs to build new oil and gas pipeline space fast – argues that the industry needs more pipelines to export oil and LNG.

Cortes Currents/Canadian Energy Centre – (oil and gas emissions) ‘Significant change’ in oil sands emissions growth while sector nears $1 trillion in spending – argues that the gas and oil industries emissions are getting lower and, left to itself, will eventually meet Canada’s environmental goals. An emissions cap at this point would both harm the industry and make it more difficult for them to come into compliance.

Articles from Thursday, March 27

Cortes Currents – (community/environment) FOCI’s 2025 Broom Bash at Mansons Lagoon – FOCI also holds a Broom Bash every year. 15 volunteers and staff showed up to remove this invasive species on Saturday, March 21, 2025.

MyCampbellRiverNow – (2025 election) Tidemark hosting forum for North Island-Powell River election candidates – April 6, 5:30 to 8:30

 Cortes Currents/ Williams Lake Tribune – (archaeology) Study finds pit houses in B.C.’s Chilcotin ‘older than the Pyramids’ -Archaeological evidence collected in the first phase of a cultural heritage study suggests the historical presence of the Secwépemc in the Chilcotin was larger than once thought. 

(remaining articles from Thursday were cut to make room for today’s input.)

Media outlets accessed:

• The Bird’s Eye (Weekly based on Quadra Island, published on Tuesdays)
• Campbell River Mirror (Daily based in Campbell River),
• Cortes Currents (Now 4 times a week, based on Cortes Island),
• Cortes Round-up – (Once or twice a month) a bulletin from Cortes Island
• Discovery Islander (Biweekly based on Quadra Island, published on Fridays).
• Folk U – Weekly talk radio program based on Cortes Island
• MyCampbellRiverNow (Daily based in Campbell River),
• Powell River Peak (Daily based in Powell River),
• qathet Living (Monthly based in Powell River, next publication early in March)
• Robyn Mawhinney’s Director Report – From the Regional Director of Area C, Published bimonthly, on Fridays

Note Re Split Credits – Publication in which they appeared/ the original source. So ‘Cortes Currents/Area C Directors Report’ means the Area C Directors Report was republished on Cortes Currents.

Top image credit: Reading the newspaper – Photo by CIMSUS via Flickr (CC BY SA 2.0)