National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Quadra Island RCMP says four times as many thefts have been reported to police compared to this same time last year.
Cpl. Sean Bulford, Quadra Island RCMP detachment commander, said the overall numbers aren’t high but the rate of the increase is significant.
“Percentage wise, it’s a large increase in a place like this,” said Bulford on Wednesday.
Continue reading More Theft During COVIDBy Michael Bramadat-Willcock & Carl Meyer, National Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporters & Emma McIntosh, National Reporter, Canada’s National Observer
Ontario, Saskatchewan and British Columbia launch COVID-19 economic reopening measures this week, and all three provinces are tackling the issue on their own terms.
Continue reading Three Provinces Launch Economic Reopening MeasuresNorth Island Gazette, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
When two grizzly bears island-hopped across the Johnston Strait to Alert Bay in 2016, the community was transfixed — and afraid. Children were kept inside while conservation officers set traps. Within a week the bears were captured and relocated back to their territory in the Great Bear Rainforest. Judy Hilgemann, an artist originally from Port Alice, had firsthand accounts of the situation from her conservation officer husband, and she turned the saga into a children’s story called The Great Grizzlies Go Home.
Continue reading The Great Grizzlies Go HomeNorth Island Gazette, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
The Dzawad’enuwx First Nation in Kingcome Inlet, a small community on the mainland across from northern Vancouver Island has been on lockdown since April 17 due to concerns about the novel coronavirus.
Continue reading Kingcome Inlet Will Remain IsolatedMany of you probably know Linda Solomon Wood as the Editor-in-Chief of the CANADA’S NATIONAL OBSERVER, but the award winning investigative journalist lived on Cortes Island for five years after 9/11. While she currently lives in Vancouver, Linda returns every summer. I recently had a chance to interview her about her life and why, as the editor of a national publication, she recently hired a reporter to cover Cortes and Quadra Islands.
Continue reading 2020: Linda Solomon Wood Talks About Cortes Island & Journalism
