Terrace Standard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
British Columbia RCMP E Division will be reviewing police action that took place during the arrest of two Gitxsan men at Hazelton CN rail tracks on Nov. 21, said Warren Brown, chief superintendent of the north district.
Continue reading B.C. RCMP will review Hazelton arrests following Stikine MLA’s “complaint letter”By John Woodside, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Three land defenders claim they were subjected to dehumanizing treatment at the hands of RCMP following their arrests on unceded Wet’suwet’en land on Nov. 18.
Continue reading Land defenders arrested at Wet’suwet’en blockade allege mistreatment by RCMPNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Old-growth forests the B.C. government has identified for logging deferrals are still at risk of being clear cut, according to a West Coast conservation group.
“Intentions don’t stop chainsaws,” said Torrance Coste, campaign director for the Wilderness Committee, of the government’s failure to immediately act on the deferrals announced Nov. 2.
Continue reading B.C.’s old growth still falling with delay of provincial logging deferralsBy Melissa Renwick, Ha-Shilth-Sa, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Thousands of British Columbians remain displaced following a series of devastating floods and landslides that have swallowed highway roads and entire cities in the southern part of the province.
The floods prompted British Columbia to declare its third state of emergency this year on Nov. 17. The devastation was triggered by an atmospheric river that carried rainfall two times the average amount within a 72-hour period.
Continue reading Do clearcuts contribute to BC’s flooding?National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
It’s hard work, but it’s heart work.
That’s the maxim of the climate action team helping bring the Haíɫzaqv (Heiltsuk) First Nation’s vision of clean energy sovereignty to life.
The small, remote coastal nation in Bella Bella on British Columbia’s wild central coast is in the last stage of shaping a three- to five-year clean energy plan to shift its dependence on diesel and increase the community’s climate resiliency by focusing on sustainable solutions using the sun, wind, earth and water.
Continue reading Heiltsuk First Nation doing ‘heart work’ to tackle climate crisis
