Since its inception, the BC NDP has been the party of labour. The party’s ties to unionized workers have created a crucial working-class voting block. Home to thousands of forestry workers, Vancouver Island’s rural electoral ridings have been New Democrat strongholds for decades. That loyalty is now being tested as the provincial government shifts towards […]
Dr. Karen Price is an independent scientist and recent member of the old growth technical advisory panel for B.C.’s ministry of forests. B.C.’s massive old-growth forests, along with primary forests worldwide, are vanishing. Anyone who looks down from a plane, or onto Google Earth, can see the swaths of young harvested forest. More broadly, we’re […]
British Columbia’s international reputation relies heavily on wild, remote and unspoiled imagery. The messaging promotes sparkling lakes, clean rivers, snow-capped peaks and diverse wildlife, of which abundant salmon and native trout, like steelhead, have important roles to play. Since Europeans’ first contact with Indigenous peoples, B.C.’s riches have driven prosperity. Unfortunately prosperity came at a […]
