Workers at Renton Boeing plant react to 737 crash, debate heats up about I-5 expansion in Portland, "bowl of Jell-O" effect would affect Cascadia skyscrapers, salmon cannons help migrating fish in BC, Lindy West on the TV adaptation of Shrill, and fiction by Sharma Shields.
How Seattle faced the early AIDS crisis, thousands of WA buildings could collapse in major quake, Seattle safe injection site on hold, a mining company wants to pollute more radioactive waste in cleanup, saving a historic Oregon backcountry ski cabin, and poetry by Martha Silano.
Oregon legislature pays out $1.1 million in harassment cases, WA moves toward eliminating vaccine exemptions, creating affordable housing near a Seattle park, a very big, lonely Douglas-fir, how Vancouver's Chelene Knight helped create a feminist literary festival, & fiction by Jeanette Weaskus.
Big news toward a cure for HIV in Seattle, Oregon considers sentencing reform for minors, Jay Inslee's struggles with climate agenda in WA, the Lummi Nation's connection to orcas, firefighting foams puts toxics in Portland's groundwater, a Seattle Super Hiker, and an interview with the editors of Moss.
A poet's account of being arrested protesting a BC pipeline, WA gov Jay Inslee is running for US president, new WA bill would stop detaining people with mental illness in jails, mapping BC's kelp forests, a profile of Oregon's master guitar maker, and poetry by Abi Pollokoff.
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Portland’s Dao Strom is a fantastically talented artist on many levels. In a new collection of work called “On an Open Field” now online at Cascadia Magazine, Strom combines photos, music, and text in an exploration of what it means to live between the cultures of Vietnam and America. You’ll also find an interview with Strom by Portland journalist and musician Lauren Kershner. Read more here.
CBC reports that the Cascadia measles outbreak has spread to Vancouver BC, with 15 cases reported. CBC looks at the roots of BC’s anti-vax movement, which is rooted in parents’ anxiety about the medical establishment. Meanwhile, KUOW looks at whether the latest measles outbreak will convince more parents to vaccinate.
The Seattle Times has a thorough report on the problem of homelessness among former foster kids in Washington— and looks at how a program in Tennessee that increases the ratio of case workers to kids has shown dramatic reduction in rates of homelessness. In related new Real Change reports that young people in and out of Washington’s in-patient mental health system also have high rates of homelessness. And the Oregonian reports that many people with mental health issues in Oregon are languishing in jails because facilities are in short supply.
Canada’s government is suddenly in crisis over a scandal over favorable treatment of a corporation accused of paying bribes. At the heart of the controversy is the country’s former attorney general, Vancouver MP Jody Wilson-Raybould who’s a member of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nation. Wilson-Raybould testified yesterday that prime minister Justin Trudeau pressured her to stop investigating SNC-Lavalin, which is embroiled in a bribery scandal connected to Libya. The Tyee looks at her connections to Indigenous traditions, and the Georgia Straight sees her case as classic case of trying to silence a whistleblower.
Seattle Weekly has a detailed report on the ways climate change is having an impact on Washington, including flooding on the Chehalis River, salmon die-offs in Puget Sound, and increased frequency of wildfires. In related news, Samantha Wohlfeil at the Inlander looks at a variety of climate-related bills in the Washington legislature, including increasing funds for clean power, and changing building energy efficiency requirements. And Crosscut has a fantastic profile of Tarika Powell, an environmental activist at Seattle’s Sightline Institute who grew up in the segregated South as is now an expert on natural gas issues. And Eugene Weekly profiles an OSU professor who looks at climate impacts on wildfire: “Fire is wild, and there’s very little we can do to control it.”
Willamette Week’s spring arts guide features all sorts of great music, visual art, and literary stuff coming up in Portland and beyond, including a new book of essays from Mitchell S. Jackson on growing up black in Northeast Portland. The Georgia Straight has a preview of spring arts coming to greater Vancouver. Oregon Arts Watch previews choreographer Minh Tran’s new work, and Seattle Weekly looks at a new homage to Danielle Steele, and queer reimagining of romance novels at Mount Analog.
That’s tonight’s collection of news & arts across Cascadia. –Andrew Engelson
Oregon passes first state-wide rent control in US, Jagmeet Singh wins Burnaby seat, Amazon backs out of Seattle skyscraper project, piece of sacred meteorite returned to Oregon tribe, a profile of a master Suquamish basket-maker, an interview with Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, & poetry by Shazia Hafiz Ramji.
Burnaby, BC by-election stirs anti-immigrant anger, new pipelines kill orcas, but Canada's energy board doesn't care, getting more housing without displacement in Vancouver, Portland police shooting ruled justified, Seattle Weekly stops print publication, native teen art in Seattle & poetry by Quenton Baker.
BC budget boosts assistance to families, racism in policing of Portland's bars & nightclubs, will WA & OR ban plastic bags?, social media fuels anti-vax sentiment, Chelene Knight on finding black community in Vancouver's literary scene, and an interview with poet Alex Gallo-Brown.
US lands bill has big impact on wilderness across Cascadia, what it's like to be homeless in snowy Vancouver, Seattle passes school levy but state cuts library funds, send your comments to stop Oregon using pesticide that kills pines, Oregon documentary filmmaker nominated for Oscar & poetry by Abi Pollokoff.
