Cloe Logan is a reporter and photographer covering food systems, the environment and politics for Canada’s National Observer.
Logan, who is a graduate of the Langara Journalism program, spent the last year working as a staff reporter for the Parksville Qualicum Beach News on Vancouver Island where she wrote a series highlighting the lack of a cold-weather shelter in the area, while also covering municipal and breaking news for the paper. Prior to that, she contributed to an investigation into inauthentic Indigenous art sold in Vancouver's souvenir shops with The Discourse.
Quickly swimming through the depths of Canada's East Coast waters is the North Atlantic shortfin mako shark — an endangered species reaching up to 13 feet long.
Petroleum slicks, human and animal waste, deceased animals and garbage. All this and more have been spotted floating in the water by volunteers working to salvage B.C. homes and communities flooded by the recent catastrophic storm.
As Kevin Estrada boated around flooded agricultural land while assisting neighbours during B.C.’s climate disaster, he noticed salmon struggling amid tall grass and flowing water.
The meeting, which stretches two weeks, sees 52 member countries sit down to discuss the conservation and management of tuna and tuna-like species (including makos) in the Atlantic and its adjacent waters.
A grassroots group in Saskatchewan wants to “share land as treaties intended” by allowing Indigenous people to practise their traditional ways of life on privately held land. Farmers can put up a sign welcoming them to hunt, gather or hold ceremonies without fear.
The group, which has been building tiny houses in Blue River, B.C., since 2017 in an attempt to block the pipeline, was presented with the Carole Geller Human Rights Award on Tuesday.
The group argues the Drive Carbon Neutral program is greenwashing, and is therefore tricking customers into participating in an initiative with false claims, which it says goes against the Competition Act.
Thursday was a big day for Canada at COP26 — the country pledged to end foreign fossil fuel finance by 2022 and Quebec signed on to the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance — but observers are disappointed the country isn’t moving faster to ditch the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel: coal.
