With an eye on ensuring safety and cutting down on disruptions to the surrounding community, the province has announced minimum standards for publicly funded overdose prevention sites across British Columbia.
Inconsistencies are emerging in the process of awarding settlements to former Indian day school students, as some have faced multiple rejections while their classmates received compensation from the class action without an issue.
Chants, cheers, laughter and screams could be heard at a secluded section of Nitinaht Lake as school children and their invited guests raced each other in Ditidaht Community School’s annual Paddle Day event.
Tina Joseph, an organizer and staff member of Ditidaht Community School, said the fun day event has been going on for 14 or 15 years, except for the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period.
“We usually invite guests,” she told Ha-Shilth-Sa.
Chantel Moore’s daughter Gracie is 11 this year.
“She’s growing. She often talks about her mom and how she misses her,” said Gracie’s grandmother Martha Martin on June 4, 2025, the fifth anniversary of her daughter’s fatal shooting by Edmundson City Police Force Officer Jeremy Son during a wellness check.
“She was six when her mom passed,” said Martin. “She struggled with it for a really long time. She would always ask, ‘When are the angels going to be done with my mom? Can they just send her back now?’”
A pair of carved wooden masks that have been sitting in storage at a California university have finally returned home. A small delegation from Yuułuʔitʔatḥ (Ucluelet First Nation) arrived at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) on May 20 to pick up the precious cargo.
It was in April 2024 when Ha-Shilth-Sa Newspaper shared the story of the masks and UCSF’s desire to return the items, amongst others, to original owners where they can be identified.
Yarrow, also known as bloodwort, soldier’s wort or +astpapt, is a native plant that has been used by nearly every culture in the world for medicinal purposes. It’s been used for so long is there is no exact record or its origins, with some traditions dating back to ancient times.
Just over six months after 53-year-old Darlene Smith was critically injured after being run over by a vehicle while sleeping in a tent, a Campbell River woman has been charged with multiple offences related to the shocking incident.
It was just after midnight on November 10, 2024, when a vehicle came racing through a quiet downtown alley in Campbell River. It is a place where some of the area’s unhoused set up tents when they can’t find space in a shelter, and that is just what Smith was doing.
For mułaa (pronounced mu-thla) Rising Tide Surf Team, the love of surfing runs in tandem with learning how to say surfing – and all the surf words – in Nuu-chah-nulth language.
Anyone can come along for the ride too; mułaa worked with Gisele Martin at the Tla-o-qui-aht Language Department and Samantha Touchie from Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ Government to create a surf map that showcases the traditional names of surf breaks from načiks (Tofino) to Ucluelet.
“Reconciliation in B.C. is having a near-death experience,” says a First Nation leader after the Legislative Assembly passed two bills this week designed to fast-track projects.
Thick hair hanging in a dark cloak to cover his boyish face, young Darryl McCarthy crouches on the forest floor over a pile of wood shavings. For several minutes he’s been scraping pieces of steel together, patiently trying to arouse fire from the sparks. Next to him sits ƛuupin, a boy of similar age, tapping a knife edge with wood, driving it down the grain of cedar pieces to feed the fire they hope will soon appear. Wearing a camouflage cap, Jordan Touchie comes with a cup full of wood shavings, silently helping the younger boy to produce the necessary eruption of sparks.