Though he has zero vision, Randy Fred has won an estimated dozen national lawn bowling championships.

Fred, a member of Tseshaht First Nation, won his latest title at the 2023 Canadian Para-Bowls Championships.

This event was held at the Stanley Park Lawn Bowling Club in Calgary. The tournament ran from July 24-30.

Fred, who represents the Nanaimo Lawn Bowling Club, was the only competitor in the B1 category, for those that have no sight. Thus, he knew he would capture another national title.

Facebook is being heavily criticized by federal officials, as the site continues to block news with British Columbia under a state of emergency and over 20,000 in the Northwest Territories facing an evacuation order due to wildfires.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took aim at the social media giant on Monday, Aug. 21, amid the worst forest fire season in Canada’s history.

As the sun beamed onto Esowista beach, youth of the Mułaa, Rising Tide Surf team gathered around Lacy Kaheaku, a native to Hawaiʻi, to learn how to carve traditional wooden surfboards and the Indigenous roots of the sport.

“Women did a lot of the surfing in native Hawaiian culture,” said Kaheaku, adding that royalty, alongside warriors, would also surf. “But majority of the leisurely surfing was done by women.”

As wildfire season roars throughout the province, smoke travels from north and northwest of Vancouver Island making its way to impact Nuu-chah-nulth territories.

According to the Coastal Fire Centre, last week's cold weather event caused a shift in wind direction to a northerly direction, which brought smoke to loom over the majority of Vancouver Island.

On Aug. 18 to 20 the Alberni Athletic was home to the second annual For the Love of the Game tournament.

It’s an open men’s and women’s basketball tournament organized by Memphis Dick, Destiny Hanson and Jenelle Johnson Sabbas. Eight men’s and five women’s teams showed up for the double knock-out event, with the Ucluelet Guardians and the Island Lightening taking home the top wins.

Six and a half years after filing a claim to the B.C. Supreme Court, the Nuchatlaht are committed to continue the court battle to prove title over their territory on northern Nootka Island - even if the process takes several more years.

A new, revised final settlement agreement has been reached by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, following a complaint made over 15 years ago.

Over $23 billion will be distributed to those who have been impacted by actions that have been ruled as discriminatory by the CHRT.

In late 2021 the Royal B.C. Museum announced that they were shutting down their third floor to decant iconic exhibits, such as Old Town, to decolonize the museum. But less than two years later, Old Town reopened on July 29, with some changes and a new approach.

Old Town, originally created in the early 1970s, replicates a Victoria streetscape from the late nineteenth century to the early 20th century with cobble streets that visitors can walk while looking through window shops, the grand hotel, the train station, among other iconic features.

For the first time in four years, elders from First Nations across British Columbia converged for two days celebrating the role they hold in their respective communities.

The BC Elders Gathering opened Aug. 15 at the Vancouver Convention Centre, bringing together nearly 1,800 elders and their helpers to an annual event that has been sidelined due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The last Elders Gathering was at the city’s convention centre in 2019, attracting a similar number of participants.

While Jolyn Watts was competing at the Special Olympics World Games, her father was running an excavator, building a bicycle trail alongside the highway between Tofino and Ucluelet.

“I was making a rock wall around this culvert,” recalled Lloyd Watts. “I was being real crabby.”

But Lloyd’s day changed after news came through his phone about the result Jolyn’s 1,500-metre race, a long-distance run that earned her a gold medal.