National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Fairy Creek old-growth activists are facing arrest after a logging company won a court order banning blockades defending some of the last tracts of ancient rainforest on southern Vancouver Island.
Continue reading Fairy Creek old-growth activists face arrestsNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
B.C. health authorities clamped down on COVID-19 measures Monday as new cases in the province spike and the race against variants becomes increasingly dire.
Continue reading BC clamps down on COVID 19 surgeNational 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
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 logging
