Conservation groups are demanding the Canadian government take immediate emergency action to save the Southern Resident killer whale population. According to Ecojustice, only 72 remain in the species three pods, following the recent deaths of three killer whales, including an infant.
The province is looking to the wind as it seeks to power a growing British Columbia.
Shalaya Valenzuela has not been resting on her laurels since winning an Olympic medal this past summer.
Valenzuela, a member of Tseshaht First Nation, was on the Canadian women’s rugby sevens squad that captured the silver medal at the Paris Olympics.
Though she took part in all team activities at the Games in France, Valenzuela was officially listed as an alternate with the club and didn’t see any game action. But she was still awarded a medal.
The Maaqtusiis Knights played a respectable game against Queen Margaret’s Royals (QMR) out of Duncan on Saturday afternoon, Dec. 7, at Ucluelet's 2024 Basketball on the Edge tournament.
The Ahousaht team of junior and senior all-native players suffered back-to-back losses the day before, but doubled back from Flores Island, a 30-minute boat ride from Tofino, to nab an exciting 65-62 victory over QMR.
Maaqtusiis player Kalani Charleson, 17, said the travel didn’t make him tired.
Clayoquot Sound’s living wage has risen again, making it the second highest in the province behind Whistler.
The living wage for Clayoquot Sound, which is calculated by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, BC Office and Living Wage BC., is $27.42 - a 3.43 per cent increase from last year. It is the hourly rate that each of two parents working full-time must earn to support a family of four based on the actual costs of living in a particular community. Minimum wage is B.C. is currently $17.40 an hour.
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.