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“#Reclaiming the Thunderbirds sports team name at the University of British Columbia” At UBC, the athletics department is working with local First Nations to decolonize and Indigenize sport. They have a new tagline and are introducing renewed storytelling about how the Thunderbirds—the school’s varsity teams—got their name. (Photograph by Felicia Chang) At the heart of…
“#Meet the RV dwellers facing eviction in Tofino, B.C.” Melissa Leonard finishes her bartending shift and hears the familiar crash of waves on her bike ride home, the sound carried in on the breeze from the open Pacific. But home itself—an RV on a campground facing closure—reminds her she might not be here much longer….
“#If you thought the cutting of B.C.’s ancient forests was winding down, you’d be wrong” Our editorial: Over the decade ending in 2018, an average of 15,200 hectares of old growth hit the ground annually in coastal forests alone. That’s an area per year the size of Vancouver. In the early 1990s, an attention-grabbing poster…
“#The battle to save B.C.’s old-growth trees—before it’s too late” It came as a bit of a shock to Shawna Knight, a 43-year-old mother of two who runs the Buddha Box, a locally sourced food outfit in Shirley, on Vancouver Island’s southwest coast. Co-founder of the famous Cold Shoulder Cafe in the local surfing mecca…
“#Sea otters are back with a worrying vengeance in B.C.” Sea otters off Vargas Island in B.C.; the animals eat 20 per cent of their body weight each day (Photograph by Melissa Renwick) From the stern of a skiff speeding away from Vancouver Island, Joe Martin trains a steely gaze on the scattered islets just…
“#Under B.C.’s dome of smoke and ash” After the months-long COVID lockdown, B.C.ers have been forced back indoors as yellow, sooty air swallows entire streetscapes In a province that relishes the outdoors, it’s hard not to feel trapped. For about a week, wildfire smoke from California, Oregon and Washington state has hung over British Columbia,…
“#Under B.C.’s dome of smoke and ash” After the months-long COVID lockdown, B.C.ers have been forced back indoors as yellow, sooty air swallows entire streetscapes In a province that relishes the outdoors, it’s hard not to feel trapped. For about a week, wildfire smoke from California, Oregon and Washington state has hung over British Columbia,…
“#Executive MBA programs in Canada 2021: British Columbia” Offerings tailored to professionals with years of experience, with specializations in health care, finance and more Beedie School of Business Simon Fraser University, Vancouver Part time: 20 months Work experience required: 10 years, including 4 years’ management experienceTuition: $58,500 Launched in 1968, this program is the longest-running…
“#That time life-sized, animatronic dinosaurs were on auction in Langley, B.C.” Bidders at a sale of the velociraptors, pterosaurs and T. Rexes this August fell into two categories: grazers and carnivores More than 500 dino-related items were up for grabs at Able Auctions in Langley, B.C., in what one auctioneer called a once-in-a-lifetime event (Photograph…
“#New fossil discovery shows 50 million-year-old Canada-Australia connection” The new fossil lacewing species from British Columbia, Canada, with an almost complete wing. Credit: The Canadian Entomologist. Used by permission. The discovery of a tiny insect fossil is unearthing big questions about the global movement of animals and the connection to changes in climate and shifting…