A Nuu-chah-nulth woman is lucky to be alive after being run over while sleeping in her tent in a downtown Campbell River alley.
Darlene Smith, 53, a Nuchatlaht woman and Christie Indian Residential School survivor, has been living on the streets of Campbell River since 2019. She admits an addiction to alcohol for many years now and is known to the local police, who describe her as a nice person.
The clock is ticking for First Nations and the federal government to agree upon the terms of a $47.8-billion child welfare agreement, as a change in Ottawa appears likely if the Liberal minority government is toppled.
This year’s Urban Holiday Gatherings began in Campbell River on Tuesday, where Nuu-chah-nulth-aht from the northern tribes converged at the Thunderbird Hall for an evening of feasting and celebrating their ancestral culture.
Maht Mahs gymnasium in Port Alberni saw a lot of junior basketball on Nov. 29 and Nov. 30 as dozens of Nuu-chah-nulth youth laced up for a jamboree-style tournament hosted by Tseshaht Lighting.
The two-day program included four U13 girls teams, three U13 boys teams and five U17 boys teams. Unfortunately, no U17 girls played in the event, according to organizer and Tseshaht Lightning coach Ed Nasimius Ross.
Despite growth in herring populations, Nuu-chah-nulth leaders remain concerned about the long-term health of the species, opting again to not permit a commercial catch in 2025.
But for the first time in several years, a spawn-on-kelp fishery is being planned by Ha’oom. Owned by Ahousaht, Ehattesaht, Mowachaht/Muchalaht, Hesquiaht and Tla-o-qui-aht, the fisheries society hopes to capitalize on commercial opportunities in selling herring roe, or k̓ʷaqmis, attached to kelp in their respective territorial waters.
In the wake of the police-enforced removal of homeless encampments on Pandora Avenue and Ellice Street, nine members of Victoria’s unhoused population died by fatal overdose over 11 days in November, according to downtown service providers.
Last summer police began to implement a safety plan for Pandora Avenue, which had become home to a large encampment of Victoria’s unhoused, following the July 11 assault of a paramedic responding to a call on the 900-block.
A former school play field should soon be teeming with children again, now that the City of Port Alberni has approved construction of apartments and townhouses behind Uchucklesaht’s Nucii Building on Redford Street.
The Uchucklesaht Tribe Government purchased the former Redford Elementary School in 2018. They renovated the facility, turning it into office and meeting spaces. The playing field behind the property has remained unused for years.
With an aerial view of Lovekin Rock holding space in the Pacific Ocean just off Long Beach and endless sightlines of rainforest and mountain peaks, the descent into the Tofino-Long Beach Airport (CYAZ) might be one of the most beautiful landings on earth.
Located within the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve and on Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation (TFN) unceded traditional territory, the Government of Canada built the original CYAZ runways in 1942-1943 for the Second World War.
Newly elected BC Green Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) Rob Botterell and Jeremy Valeriote round off the legislature like special teams in the Canadian Football League.
Playing neither offence or defence in a parliamentary battlefield consisting of 47 NDP and 44 Conservation MLAs, the BC Greens are the third-party duo British Columbians can look to for shaping the game.
Under a canopy of warm holiday lights from within Tofino’s community hall, dozens of West Coast residents gathered for a day-long workshop to take meaningful steps towards ending sexual violence.