By Michelle Gamage, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, The Tyee Vancouver’s last drop-in space for sex workers is facing an uncertain future as the city changes how it funds the non-profit. The ...
Shilth-Sa Vancouver Island, BC – Food insecurity has reached a record high of 25.5 per cent in Canadian households, according to the latest Canadian Food Sentiment Index report published by the ...
By Tara Deschamps The royal charter that created Hudson’s Bay in 1670 is on its way to the auction block. Ontario Superior Court judge Peter Osborne on Friday approved a process that will see the ...
The answers are within us.” Dr Verna Kirkness, the founder of the World Indigenous Peoples’ Conference on Education (WIPCE), delivered this powerful message onstage in New Zealand this week. WIPCE ...
The City of Port Coquitlam, B.C., said it is “vigorously defending” public ownership of municipal lands against a claim bought in 2016 by a local First Nation. But the city said the land claim by the ...
By Wolfgang Depner Legislation to fast-track construction of a northern power line has squeaked through the British Columbia legislature thanks to a deciding vote by the Speaker for the bill that ...
By Nono Shen A grizzly bear has attacked a group of elementary school students and teachers in the B.C. central coast community of Bella Coola, leaving two people critically injured and two others ...
By Lisa Johnson Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s government plans to limit what behaviour professional regulators can police in the interest of strengthening freedom of expression. A bill introduced ...
By Rochelle Baker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada’s National Observer An American-owned cargo barge sitting dangerously low in the water near Bella Bella has reignited coastal First ...
By Lyndsay Armstrong A Cree woman serving a life sentence in Nova Scotia was given an additional 12 months for unlawfully confining two prison guards, in a decision acknowledging possible mistreatment ...
By Lauren Krugel Alberta and Ottawa are said to be closing in on a “grand bargain” that could see a new West Coast oilsands pipeline built in tandem with emissions-offsetting measures, but it’s ...
By Wolfgang Depner and David Baxter British Columbia’s jobs minister says ending a tanker ban to service a pipeline from Alberta to B.C.’s northern coast would put billions of dollars’ worth of other ...