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.
Death of consumer carbon tax leaves $1.5-billion hole in B.C. budget
Werner Antweiler, associate professor at the Sauder School of Business at the University of B.C., says that leaves about $1.5 billion in revenue the province will need to make up, which could include cutting spending or raising taxes elsewhere.
B.C. Hydro plans rate hike
Dix announced Monday that the New Democrat government is submitting a "rate stability direction" to the B.C. Utilities Commission for approval of a BC Hydro rate increase of 3.75 per cent on April 1, followed by the same bump next year.
'Tesla Takedown' protests against Musk and Trump come to Canada
Canadians in several cities, including Ottawa and Vancouver have joined a wave of "Tesla Takedown" protests to denounce CEO Elon Musk and his role advising U.S. President Donald Trump.
Why booze was the first go-to lever in the trade war
The dozens of Kentucky bourbons listed on the BC Liquor Stores website range from a two-ounce bottle of Maker's Mark, priced at $5.29, to a $2,400 bottle of Woodford Reserve, aged in cognac barrels and presented in a crystal decanter.
Google has mislabeled Canada's provincial parks as 'state' parks for years
Canadians have taken to social media wondering why Google Maps was referring to some provincial parks as "state" parks, an incorrect designation that has ruffled feathers at a time of heightened tension between Canada and the United States.
B.C. pulls back on retaliation moves because of U.S. tariff pause
B.C. Premier David Eby said he had spoken with the leaders of B.C. mining and refining firms, who indicated they are redirecting products to alternative markets, ahead of Tuesday's scheduled imposition of 25 per cent U.S. tariffs on Canadian products, with the exception of energy, which faces a 10 per cent tariff.
Eby says tariffs could cause a recession worse than 2018 and supports pandemic-style relief
The premier said retaliatory tariffs on U.S. imports, part of the federal government's proposed response to Trump's threat, would generate billions of dollars that should be "immediately deployed" across Canada to help people and businesses.
B.C. must pursue energy independence in face of tariff threat: minister
There was urgency before the U.S. election last November, Dix said, but "there's more now" as President Donald Trump threatens to impose 25 per cent tariffs on Canadian goods.
Salmon return to spawn in urban streams in Metro Vancouver
Efforts to rehabilitate urban waterways have helped bring spawning salmon back to parts of Metro Vancouver, including unlikely-looking streams surrounded by industrial and residential development.
Two people dead and another is missing in wake of B.C.'s weekend atmospheric river
Environment Canada figures show the Metro Vancouver city was among the hardest hit by an atmospheric river that drenched B.C.'s south coast, receiving 256 millimetres between Friday and Sunday night.