Island Insider

One Save Old Growth activist is expected to be released from custody while another remains in jail for another week after corrections staff failed to get him to his bail hearing. 

International student and climate activist Zain Haq surrendered to CBSA on Tuesday and will remain in detention until at least Thursday when a hearing is scheduled.

International student Zain Haq, co-founder of the Save Old Growth (SOG) civil resistance group, is in hiding because he's worried the Canada Border Services Agency wants to deport him.

First Nations leaders are calling for more political engagement from federal Fisheries Minister Joyce Murray, expressing rage and grief over Pacific salmon’s path to extinction — and with it, the ongoing decimation of their communities’ culture, self-identity and food security.