CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter – Using interviews, video footage and written accounts, CKTZ News has drawn up a Fairy Creek chronology.
“Vancouver was once covered in trees that had the girth of a good third of my house. Those forests are gone,” Rainforest Flying Squad spokesperson Carol Tootill told CKTZ News.
Continue reading From the mouths of the defenders: A Fairy Creek chronologyCKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Quadra Island Farmers Market reopened on July 3rd, after an 18 month closure due to COVID, and the busiest table appears to have been writing letters to Premier Horgan in defence of old growth forests.
Continue reading Writing letters to Premier Horgan – at the Quadra Island Farmers MarketCKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
An industry response to curtailing old growth logging appeared in the Spring 2021 edition of the Truck Loggers Association magazine.
Continue reading An industry response to curtailing Old Growth LoggingBy Moira Wyton, The Tyee, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The number of Canadians who died of COVID-19 could be twice as high as reported, according to a new preliminary report.
Continue reading COVID 19 deaths could be twice as high as reportedIn the midst of heat wave that is breaking temperatures across British Columbia, the BC Wildfire Service is imposing a ban on all open fires, including campfires, fireworks, tiki torches, outdoor stoves, sky lanterns, and/or burn barrels in the Greater Campbell River area.
This prohibition will remain in effect until noon on Oct. 15, 2021, or until the order is rescinded.
Continue reading Heat wave: Campfire Ban
