Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly popular on social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram and Tik Tok, but what impacts are AI generated videos and images having in the environment?
AI requires massive, specialized data centers, often called ‘AI factories’, to train and run complex models. This brings a surge in demand for power and infrastructure dependent on fossil fuels, resulting in a high production of greenhouse gas emissions.
Entrepreneurs who come from a long line of commercial fishers are capitalizing on an ocean harvest that has nothing to do with catching fish.
Kelp is presenting growing possibilities on international markets, contributing a valuable, self-regenerating ingredient to agriculture, food products and even the skin care industry.
Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ Government’s education department held an uplifting professional development day on Feb. 13 at the Cixʷatin Centre in Hitacu.
Manager of education services Jennifer Touchie said about 90 West Coasters from Ahousaht, Tla-o-qui-aht, Huu-ay-aht, School District 70 and Pacific Rim Hospice attended the full-day event, which centered around ‘Moving through trauma by connecting to culture, language and traditional foods’.
Port Alberni has a shortage or health care workers, and as doctors retire more people are going without family physicians, adding to the strain at walk-in clinics and the emergency department at the West Coast General Hospital.
A Vancouver-based dance group is working to ensure that one of B.C.’s largest First Nation cultural events happens this year, but Hoobiyee will not be held at the end of February as was previously announced.
A celebration of the Nisga’a New Year, Hoobiyee is usually held annually at the end of February or beginning of March. Besides Nisga’a participants, the event attracts thousands from across B.C. to Vancouver’s PNE Forum, and has drawn a heavy Nuu-chah-nulth presence with several performances each year from multiple nations from Vancouver Island’s west coast.
Hundreds dressed in red gathered in downtown Victoria on Feb. 14 to participate in the 17th annual Stolen Sisters Memorial March to honour missing and murdered Indigenous Peoples.
The W̱SÁNEĆ Wolf Pack led the march from Centennial Square through Government Street towards the legislature. The march formed a large circle at each intersection along Government Street for song and dance performed by the Wolf Pack, each a tribute to the disproportionate number of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG).
Judy Da Silva’s eyes light up as she forks a piece of wild smoked salmon into her mouth.
“It’s like a privilege to me. To me, it’s like gold. It’s good medicine for our spirits when we have our traditional foods,” said Da Silva at the Tin Wis Resort on Feb. 11.
Earlier this week Parks Canada officials announced that dogs are now banned from being on a part of Wickaninnish Beach, located on Nuu-chah-nulth territory south of Tofino.
The ban, which came into effect on Feb. 11, prohibits dogs from being on the section of the beach from Beach Access E to Sandhill Creek. This area is in Ucluelet First Nation territory.
The world is reeling after hearing news of a mass school shooting in a remote town of Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
On February 10, 2026, an Jesse Van Rootselaar entered the high school shooting a teacher and five students to death before turning the gun on herself. According to reports there are at least 25 others injured from the incident including a 12-year-old girl who is fighting for her life in Vancouver’s BC Children’s Hospital.
A detailed survey has been launched, with the aim of arming Nuu-chah-nulth communities with more data about the wellness of their members.