Brenna Owen

Reporter Vancouver

About Brenna Owen

Brenna Owen is a community-driven multimedia journalist and a guest on Coast Salish territory, where she’s completing a Master of Journalism at UBC. She’s also a member of the National Student Investigative Reporting Network. Brenna has travelled to three United Nations climate conferences as a civil society delegate and got her start in journalism at CFRC, the community radio station in Kingston, Ontario.

58 Articles

The clouds move among the old growth forest near Port Renfrew, B.C. on Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

B.C. forests minister overhauls forest practices to give more control to First Nations

British Columbia's forests minister has introduced a bill to amend the Forest and Range Practices Act, saying it would "reshape" forest management in the province.

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Rosanne Casimir speaks during a news conference ahead of a ceremony to honour residential school survivors and mark the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, in Kamloops, B.C., on Sept. 30, 2021. Photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

B.C. First Nations Chief says, 'Reconciliation demands honesty and transparency"

Indigenous people have had enough apologies and want action from the Catholic Church and federal government, says the chief of the Tk'emlups te Secwepemc First Nation in British Columbia.

Protesters sit chained to a tree stump at an anti-old-growth logging blockade in Caycuse, B.C. on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jen Osborne

Protest over old-growth logging on Vancouver Island marks one year

In the year since the first camp was set up to prevent old-growth logging around the Fairy Creek watershed on southern Vancouver Island, an expert in Canadian environmental movements says the protests have made a mark on politics and public discourse.

Damaged vehicles and a structure is seen in Lytton, B.C., on Friday, July 9, 2021, after a wildfire destroyed most of the village on June 30. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Property insurance risk modelling shifts to account for climate impacts

The estimated $78 million in insured property damage from the wildfire that devastated the community of Lytton, B.C., in June is a fraction of the rising costs of disasters fuelled by climate change, the Insurance Bureau of Canada says.

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Report warns thousands could die if wildfire response isn’t changed

Western Canada must urgently address the threats posed by highly destructive wildfires or face deadly and costly consequences, says a group of forest and environmental experts from British Columbia and the United States.

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A helicopter with a water bucket flies past the Tremont Creek wildfire burning on the mountains above Ashcroft, B.C., on Friday, July 16, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Health effects from wildfire smoke will worsen, predict doctors and experts

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A helicopter pilot prepares to drop water on a wildfire burning in Lytton, B.C., on Friday, July 2, 2021. File photo by The Associated Press/Darryl Dyck

Stories of bravery amid 'unimaginable horror' of Lytton wildfire

A statement issued by the wildfire-ravaged Village of Lytton describes how little time residents had to flee and underscores the extreme challenges ahead as the Fraser Canyon community looks to rebuild.

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Demolishing former residential school a longstanding goal for northern community

Survivors of a residential school in northern British Columbia have given the community strength and courage to keep pushing in a decades-long fight to demolish the building, says the deputy chief of the Daylu Dena Council.

People are silhouetted while playing and gathering at English Bay Beach at sunset, in Vancouver, B.C., on Monday, June 21, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

Lytton, B.C., hits 46.1 degrees, breaking all-time Canadian high

The temperature in a village in British Columbia's southern Interior reached a scorching 46.1 C on Sunday, June 27, 2021, afternoon, marking a new all-time high recorded in Canada.

A nurse prepares a shot of the COVID-19 vaccine at the Yukon Convention Centre in Whitehorse on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. File photo by The Canadian Press/Mike Thomas

Couple who flew to Yukon for vaccine, breaking COVID rules pleads guilty

A husband and wife who flew to a remote Yukon community to receive early doses of COVID-19 vaccine in January were "cavalier" and "thoughtless," a judge said after the couple pleaded guilty to violating the territory's Civil Emergency Measures Act.

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