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Special Reports

Old Growth Stewardship

Pacheedaht First Nations orders forestry protest camp out of Walbran Valley

As yet another protest encampment begins growing in the backroads of Pacheedaht traditional…

Volunteer offers bagged lunch at DTES alley
Opioid crisis

Saving lives on the Downtown Eastside with Indigenous teachings

It’s a $10 taxi ride from Vancouver’s Fairmont Waterfront to East Hastings and Main – the…

Mount Underwood forest fire

Power back in Bamfield area and Nitinaht, but ‘unsafe’ road remains closed indefinitely

Power has returned to the Bamfield area and Nitinaht, but the road to the communities will…

Language

Nuu-chah-nulth language keeper Jeneva Touchie named Ucluelet’s Citizen of the Year

Nuu-chah-nulth language keeper Jeneva Touchie (Čakʷaasiqḥw̓iłim) is Ucluelet’s 2025 Citizen of…

Whalers' Washing House

‘For some of us, it’s natural’: Yuquot celebration marks return of whalers shrine

A grey whale came to the shore of Yuquot on Aug. 2, exposing its fins above the surf as the…

Residential schools

High School’s orange crosswalk reminds new generations of need to step into the future

A Social Justice class at Alberni District Secondary School has turned project into a lesson for…

Chantel Moore

Chantel Moore’s mother talks about change in policing, 5 years after her daughter’s shooting death

Chantel Moore’s daughter Gracie is 11 this year. 

“She’s growing. She often talks…

Aquaculture

Orca swims into a fish farm near Tofino, leaves unharmed

Small town whispers about an orca swimming into a fish farm near Tofino are true.

On the…

Clam gardens

Building the road to food sovereignty, rock wall by rock wall

This is article is part of a series of stories on Nuu-chah-nulth clam gardens.…

Cameron Bluffs wildfire

Study on 2023 Highway 4 wildfire calls for safe alternate route, expecting ‘future disruptions’

The 2023 wildfire at Cameron Lake cut off Port Alberni and points west from the rest of the…

Esperanza Inlet diesel spill

Toxic chemical found in shellfish three months after fish farm diesel spill

Nearly three and a half months after roughly 7,500 litres of diesel oil seeped into the marine…

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