By Aaron Walker, Windspeaker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
As First Nations leaders challenge one of Canada’s largest proposed artificial intelligence data centres over its potential impact on fresh water, many say Ottawa’s newly introduced clean water legislation leaves a fundamental question unanswered: Who ultimately decides what happens to waters in First Nations territory?
Continue reading AI Data Centres: Can Bill C-37 deliver real authority to First Nations over water?
By Aaron Walker, Windspeaker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A decade after the first burrowing owls were released onto its reserve lands, the Upper Nicola Band is marking what leaders and partners describe as a rare conservation success in a province where the species remains on the brink.
On April 22, community members, knowledge keepers, and conservation partners gathered on the Douglas Lake reserve to release six more captive-raised burrowing owls as part of an ongoing recovery effort that has quietly become one of the most productive breeding sites for the species in British Columbia.
Continue reading Upper Nicola program a ‘gold standard’ in effort to save B.C.’s burrowing owls
