No one was in Bute Inlet’s Southgate Valley when rock and ice above Elliot Creek launched itself 6000 feet down from the Homathko Icefield into a glacial lake.
Did anyone hear, see or feel anything?
Continue reading Tongue of the glacier: Elliot Creek landslide, Bute Inlet, 2020Warning: 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.
Continue reading The shadow of residential schools ‘gets longer and longer’CKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Chief Darren Blaney, of the Homalco Nation, suggests that six months training is not enough to equip the Campbell River RCMP to deal with intense situations like that which led to the recent shooting of Jared Lowndes.
Continue reading RCMP lack of training may have led to Indigenous deathsCKTZ News, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
About a hundred people attended the memorial for Jared Lowndes, who was gunned down by the RCMP outside the Campbell River Tim Hortons’ takeout window on July 8, 2021.
Continue reading The Memorial for Jared LowndesNational Observer, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
First Nations backing Ottawa’s plan to phase out salmon farms in the Discovery Islands feel betrayed after a court ruled in favour of aquaculture companies looking to restock fish at their sites in the region.
Continue reading First Nations feel betrayed by court decision
