National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Fairy Creek old-growth activists are worried the RCMP will move into protest camps and make arrests with impunity while denying media and other legal observers the ability to scrutinize their enforcement of an injunction order on southwestern Vancouver Island.
Continue reading RCMP crackdown at Fairy Creek appears imminentThe Refuge Cove general store should soon be reopening.
This is the Desolation Sound’s only grocery store in a deep-water harbour and is normally open from June until September.
Continue reading Refuge Cove General Store ReopeningCEO Peter Wrinch emailed the following update from Hollyhock:
“The new restrictions threw a bit of a wrench in our plans for opening, so we have pushed our opening back to June 25th.”
Continue reading Update from HollyhockFor the first time in over two months, the number of new COVID cases on Vancouver Island dipped down to single digits on Wednesday. They rose to 21 again Thursday and there are more cases in North Vancouver Island than a week ago, but the overall trend across the Island has been downward for more than a month.
Continue reading COVID numbers: overall trend across the Island has been downwardthe Discourse, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
All that we know and all of our relationships grows from the words of our ancestors — that is the guiding principle at First People’s Cultural Council’s (FPCC) Indigenous language programs.
Continue reading All that we know grows from the words of our ancestors
