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.

86 Articles

TJ Watt stands beside a giant red cedar tree before (in Sept. of 2021) and after (in May of 2022) it was cut in an old-growth forest in the Caycuse watershed in Ditidaht First Nation territory on Vancouver Island, B.C. Handout photo by TJ Watt

Old-growth funding lag for B.C. First Nations means giants still being logged

British Columbia has asked First Nations if they want old-growth forests set aside from logging, allowing time for long-term planning of conservation and sustainable development, but it has yet to fund the process on a large scale, advocates say.

News, Politics | November 28th 2022

A Kermode bear, better know as the Spirit Bear is seen fishing in the Riordan River on Gribbell Island in the Great Bear Rainforest, B.C. on Sept, 18, 2013. File photo by The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward

Logging patterns show targeting of B.C. old growth

The worsening effects of climate change are compounding the historical loss of British Columbia’s old-growth forests, says the co-author of a new paper that shows decades of logging on the province’s central coast targeted the highest-value forests first.

News, Politics | October 4th 2022

Water flows over the Cleveland Dam as people walk with a dog in Cleveland Park in North Vancouver, B.C., in 2015. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. couple files lawsuit over deadly dam accident

A woman whose husband saw a "wall of water rushing toward them" as the pair fled a massive torrent released from a North Vancouver dam in 2020 is suing Metro Vancouver's regional district for negligence.

News | September 21st 2022

Harassment of Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland condemned by politicians

Current and former politicians from across the Canadian political spectrum have condemned an incident in Alberta during which a man appeared to verbally accost Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday, August 26, 2022.

News, Politics | August 29th 2022

Tents line the sidewalk on East Hastings Street in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, where city workers started efforts to clear the encampment on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. File photo by The Canadian Press/Darryl Dyck

As Vancouver dismantles downtown tent city, residents say they have nowhere to go

A resident of a street encampment in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside watched on Tuesday, August 9, 2022, as workers began removing some people's belongings after the city handed out notices advising that tents and other structures will be dismantled.

News | August 10th 2022

Quebec Premier Francois Legault and B.C. Premier John Horgan answer questions during a press conference on the second day of the summer meeting of the Canada's Premiers in Victoria, B.C., on July 12, 2022. Photo by The Canadian Press/Chad Hipolito

Trudeau says premiers must deliver 'tangible results' with health spending

The federal government wants to make sure billions of dollars transferred to the provinces and territories for health care will "deliver real, tangible results for Canadians" with shorter wait times and better services, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says.

News, Politics | July 14th 2022

Premier John Horgan gestures during a break from a meeting of Canada's premiers at the Songhees Wellness Centre in Victoria, B.C., on Monday, July 11, 2022. Photo by The Canadian Press/Chad Hipolito

Horgan urges feds to shoulder half the health-care load as premiers meet

Canada's provinces and territories need a partner that will share half the financial load on the health-care system, which is buckling without stable, predictable and long-term funding, British Columbia Premier John Horgan said on Monday, July 11, 2022.

News, Politics | July 12th 2022