Deep water temperatures in fjords along BC’s Central Coast have increased 1.2–1.3°C over the past 70 years, a recent report shows.
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The shadow of residential schools ‘gets longer and longer’
Warning: This story contains details that may provoke distress or trauma in some readers.
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Homalco Chief Darren Blaney has the tragic distinction of being a third-generation residential school survivor.
Like his father, and grandfather before him, Blaney was forced from his home, family, and culture in the small community of Church House in Bute Inlet along B.C.’s remote central coast.
“My great-grandfather was the first one from Homalco to go to residential school in 1875,” said Blaney.
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Wilderness Tourism Association asks the SRD to support DFO’s decision
2021: Local historian says recent Bute Inlet slide was one of many
While the largest slide in human memory occurred only months ago, local historian Judith Williams says Bute Inlet ‘lets loose’ all the time.
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Surveying impacts of the Bute Inlet slide
National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Federal scientists and the Canadian Coast Guard have joined the flurry of scientific activity around the site of a massive landslide late last year in the Bute Inlet watershed on B.C.’s isolated central coast.
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