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Parks Canada is partnering with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities to share decision-making power in parks and heritage sites.| West Coast NOW
Rochelle Baker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer For the Gitga’at Nation, Douglas Channel on the BC’s north coast is more than a shipping lane — it’s also a haven for at-risk humpback and fin whales. Now, a new wave of shipping traffic to the LNG Canada project in Kitimat means the whales must navigate the threat of deadly ship strikes […] The post From Sanctuary to Shipping Lane: LNG Canada Tankers Threaten BC’s Whale Haven appeared firs...| West Coast NOW
By Matt Simmons, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Narwhal By early September, B.C. politicians will decide the fate of the province’s next big LNG venture. According to an announcement quietly posted on a provincial government website last week, the Ksi Lisims LNG environmental assessment was completed on Aug. 7 and referred to B.C.’s ministers of environment and energy for a final decision. The ministers — Tamara Davidson and Adrian […] The post Decision Loom...| West Coast NOW
By Rochelle Baker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer Two small inlets with immense ecological and cultural importance on BC’s remote north coast are getting some initial protection as part of the Great Bear Sea project. The province and the Gitga’at and Gitxaała Nations are implementing a new 14-square-kilometre wildlife management area to protect the Kitkiata and Kishkosh Inlets off the Douglas […] The post BC Takes First Steps to Protect Coa...| West Coast NOW
By Isaac Phan Nay, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Tyee As the federal government issues fewer permits for foreign workers, some British Columbians say they’re already feeling strained. Migrant workers whose work permits are expiring say they’re feeling abandoned, and some rural B.C. business owners say they are looking at a staffing crisis. As data shows […] The post Ottawa’s Foreign Worker Cap Is Already Being Felt appeared first on West Coast NOW.| West Coast NOW
By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, EnergeticCity.ca FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — A local summertime music festival will return for its fifth edition next month, bringing local talent to a two-day event in Fort St. John. Fred Fest, founded by McRae Powder Coating owner and Fort St. John resident Fred McRae, will take place on […] The post Annual Fort St. John Music Festival Returns for Fifth Edition This Year appeared first on West Coast NOW.| West Coast NOW
Parks Canada is partnering with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities to share decision-making power in parks and heritage sites.| West Coast NOW
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By Mike Graeme, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Indiginews A hand-built tiny home arrived in Gitxsan territories in July, marking the latest act of grassroots resistance to the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) pipeline. With support from more than 100 volunteers, the mobile structure was built over two weeks in May in “Victoria” for Gitxsan Matriarch Maas […] The post Tiny House for Matriarch Opposing PRGT Arrives in Gitxsan Lax’Yip From ‘Victoria’ appeared first on ...| West Coast NOW
An International Overdose Awareness Day event in Fort St. John on August 31st will honour lives lost, raise awareness, and offer support.| West Coast NOW
By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, EnergeticCity FORT ST. JOHN, B.C. — A local production won several awards at the province’s community theatre festival which took place in Fort St. John this year. Over 100 performers travelled from around B.C. to put on their productions during the week-long festival, including entries from five different theatre companies […] The post Local Bluebirds Production Wins Awards at Community Theatre Festival appeared first on West Coas...| West Coast NOW
By Ed Hitchins, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, EnergeticCity CHARLIE LAKE, B.C. — A local Indigenous-owned heritage site is being pointed to as an example of the successful repatriation of cultural items, according to the First Peoples’ Cultural Council (FPCC). Reports released by the FPCC entitled ‘From Stealing to Healing: Repatriation and B.C. First Nations’ and ‘Repatriation […] The post ‘Everything Has to Come Together’: Report Highlights Tse’k’wa as Repatriat...| West Coast NOW
Former Haida Gwaii journalist makes her fiction debut with A Room in the Forest, a coming-of-age novel set in the forests of Haida Gwaii.| West Coast NOW
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Stan Hutchings is one of the last of his kind. He is a professional ‘creekwalker’ – a charter patrolman contracted by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to walk the vast streams of the Skeena River and count salmon populations.| West Coast NOW
