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 […]
Premier John Horgan was crystal clear about why B.C. needed a strong majority New Democrat government when he called an early election just over a year ago. “I cannot imagine 12 more months of bickering, 12 more months of not knowing whether a bill would pass the legislature because of uncertainty in numbers,” he said, […]