The District of Tofino plans to re-introduce parking meters in the downtown area, raising concerns of offshore residents who are already struggling to find space for their vehicles.

“Tofino’s summer vibrancy leads to increased parking pressures downtown, and pay parking is a proven way to increase turnover and parking availability as well as improving road user safety, while providing an important funding source to support community programs, services, and facilities,” according to the District of Tofino.

The provincial government recently announced an investment of $8.9 million, over a period of three years, for First Nations and the province to partner in the establishment of a guardianship training initiative. 

“It supports, officially and importantly, things that have been going on in nations forever,” said Nathan Cullen, minister of Water, Lands, and Resources, in an interview with Ha-Shilth-Sa. “That is: having people out on the land and the water, observing, monitoring, protecting [and] enforcing - depending on which nation we're talking about.”

What was supposed to be a fun trip to the U.S. to play lahal nearly turned tragic as a Nuu-chah-nulth family of three were struck head-on by a suspected drunk driver.

Stephen Lucas Sr., his wife and daughter left their homes in Port Alberni and Nanaimo to Auburn, WA. to spend the Easter long weekend playing in the Muckleshoot Stick Game 2023 tournament. The tournament was held at the White River Amphitheatre, 48 kilometres southeast of Seattle.

On a rainy April morning in the Village of Tahsis, voices from the Mowachaht/Muchalaht First Nation broke through the downpour with traditional song, reminding the crowd that their ancestors occupied the remote coastal site for thousands of years.

On April 6 the Canadian Coast Guard formally recognized this heritage when two artworks were unveiled at its Tahsis station: a totem pole carved by Sanford Williams and a conference room door bearing the carvings and painting of Patrick Amos.

A young woman all dressed in white regalia is seated on a handmade wooden bench that she had just been carried into the room on. She is being honoured at the April 8 ceremony as she reaches a new stage in life from childhood to womanhood, but also, she is taking in the teachings from the extended family that love her.

On April 1 the province set out to provide free contraception to all British Columbians covered under MSP.

This includes oral contraceptives, intrauterine devices (copper and hormonal), hormonal implant, hormonal injection, and emergency contraception, such as Plan B, which requires no prescription.

The First Nations Health Authority will continue to fund patches and rings, which are not included in recent changes, said Dr. Unjali Malhotra, the FNHA’s medical director, who specializes in women’s health.

In 2008, when the Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks Guardianship Program took over the maintenance of the Meares Island Big Tree Trail, they had lots of work to do.

Saya Masso, lands director for the Tla-o-qui-aht Tribal Parks Guardian Program, has been a guardian since 2008 when the positions were first inaugurated to help implement the land vision outlined in the Tribal Park Declaration.

Since the signing of the BC First Nation Justice Strategy in 2020, a carefully outlined plan with 43 actions to reform the system and restore Indigenous legal traditions, one of the priorities outlined is the implementation of 15 First Nation justice centres throughout the province.

The first four centres in Prince Rupert, Prince George, Merrit, and virtually marked their opening in January 2022.

In late 2022 the BCFNJC announced that the next centres to be opened will be in Nanaimo, Victoria, Vancouver, Surrey, and Kelowna in 2023. 

With concerns for ‘fire, life and safety’ the City of Vancouver, with help from the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) are conducting a sweep in an effort to close an illegal encampment where approximately 80 tent structures stand along Hastings Street in the city’s notorious DTES (Downtown East Side).

For the Tseshaht beachkeepers, March 23 began when they met their supervisor down at the Port Alberni docks. They took two boats down the Alberni Inlet to Equis, where they had left Hemlock branches along a string of buoys with hopes to catch herring eggs. But with no luck they returned to Keith Island where they spent the remainder of the day.

Later on that day the crew decided to take their time on their way back home to Port Alberni. It was when they neared Nahmint Bay that they noticed sprays a few hundred metres ahead.