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Rebuilding threatened salmon

Ditidaht receives funding from DFO to restore Doobah Creek watershed

July 22, 2024

The Doobah Creek watershed, an area ravaged by industrial logging, can now begin its healing…

Offshore marine protected area

Coastal First Nations and DFO protect 133, 017 square kilometres of deep sea territory

July 12, 2024

A unique ocean area four times the size of Vancouver Island has gained official protection from…

Missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

Supporters walk for Lisa Marie 22 years after her disappearance

July 1, 2024

It has been 22 years since Lisa Marie Young went missing from Nanaimo and advocates continue to…

Aquaculture

Fish farms get five more years, as feds commit to transition industry from net pens

June 20, 2024

B.C.’s fish farms now have five years to get open net-pens out of the water – a federal…

Old Growth Stewardship

Massive sections of Clayoquot Sound’s forest soon to be protected

June 18, 2024

Large portions of forest in Clayoquot Sound will be protected this month, a development that the…

Stranded Orca Calf

Whale experts say chances are good for young orca to reunite with family pod

June 12, 2024

It has been more than a month since the last confirmed sighting of the orphaned orca…

Chantel Moore

Family walks to honour Chantel Moore on harrowing four-year anniversary of her shooting death by N.B. police officer

June 4, 2024

Chantel Moore’s mother Martha Martin flew across the country from New Brunswick to be home in…

Children in foster care

Tears and words of forgiveness as couple is sentenced for death of 6-year-old Don-Tay Lucas

May 16, 2024

A Port Alberni couple has been sentenced to 15 years after they pled guilty to manslaughter in…

Opioid crisis

Has drug decriminalization gone too far? Or is this the beginning of a solution?

May 10, 2024

Has the decriminalization of drugs gone too far in British Columbia? Or are we just in an early…

Language

Despite decline of fluent speakers, jump in language learners indicates potential resurgence

May 1, 2024

Sisters čiisma and Tuu paat have spoken their Indigenous dialects - without interruption - for…

Residential schools

Art Thompson plaque unveiled at totem pole on former AIRS site

April 25, 2024

Unfinished business was attended to today at the former site of the Alberni Indian Residential…

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