The last remaining ER doctor in Port Hardy come July wants B.C. to allow the use of physician assistants, employed in other provinces in Canada, to deal with the hemorrhage of doctors and nurses in the North Island region.
This Oak Bay-based musician, mother and grandmother is spending her retirement from the public service working with her neighbours to reduce their carbon footprints and adapt to climate impacts.
A First Nation and conservationists striving to protect the trove of large orange coral fans are cautiously optimistic that Fisheries and Oceans Canada will put an interim fishing moratorium in place to protect the fragile ecosystem.
Ottawa has to stop letting local port authorities do the heavy lifting in preventing cruise ships from dumping billions of litres of corrosive wastewater along the B.C. coast, environmentalists say.
It's not clear who are the winners and losers in the future of the commercial salmon fishery as Ottawa transforms an industry once the backbone of the coast. But trends suggest those with the deepest pockets will come out on top, industry experts say.
A record number of humpbacks were documented in 2022. But as the resident whales' population grows on West Coast, so do the dangers to the species of special concern.
Folks may find slimy, slithery, creepy creatures repulsive, but reptiles, insects, and mollusks make up nearly a third of Canada’s species at risk and need their fair share of the conservation spotlight.
The privately owned Link Island, a biodiversity jewel in the Salish Sea, has been gifted to protect and shelter some of B.C.'s rarest species and ecosystems.
For the past 13 years, this spoken word poet from Victoria, B.C., has mentored hundreds of high school students at the annual Victorious Voices spoken word festival.
