By Melissa Renwick, Ha-Shilth-Sa, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Victoria, BC – A new wind buoy being deployed off the southern tip of Vancouver Island could help remote communities cut their diesel dependence.
Continue reading New buoy explores the potential of Vancouver Island’s offshore wind powerTerrace Standard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
A group of Gitxsan hereditary chiefs, matriarchs and elders issued an “eviction notice” to Stikine MLA Nathan Cullen on Saturday (Nov. 27), citing failure to ensure the safety of his constituents including the Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en.
Continue reading Gitxsan hereditary chiefs issue northwest B.C. MLA eviction notice from territoryBy Matt Simmons, The Narwhal, Local Journalism Initiative reporter
From a bridge above train tracks in New Hazelton, B.C., supporters of the Gitxsan Nation watched on Nov. 18, as Gitxsan children and teens tossed marshmallows at a fleet of heavily-armed RCMP units descending upon the tiny town in the northwest part of the province.
“They had tactical units, sniper teams and riot suppression gear and we had children with marshmallows,” Kolin Sutherland-Wilson, a Gitxsan member of Wilp (house group) Git’luuhl’um’hetxwit, told The Narwhal in an interview.
Continue reading ‘We are not here to get killed’: Wet’suwet’en solidarity actions met with armed police responseBy Melissa Renwick, Ha-Shilth-Sa, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Tofino, BC – During art class at the Wickaninnish Community School in Tofino, Dominic Hansen eagerly volunteered to introduce himself to his class.
Despite having already been in school together for nearly three months, Hansen’s classmates listened to him attentively, as if they were hearing him for the first time. In Nuu-chah-nulth, he shared his name, his parent’s names and where he comes from.
Continue reading Interweaving Nuu-chah-nulth culture into a school curriculumTerrace Standard, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
After two days of court hearings, all those arrested from the Coastal GasLink (CGL) pipeline construction site in northwest B.C. have been released with conditions.
Last week the RCMP arrested 29 people from the construction site near Houston, while enforcing an injunction order for CGL and clearing up blockades set up by a Wet’suwet’en group and their supporters.
Continue reading All arrested CGL pipeline opponents in northwest B.C. released with conditions
