Your guide to Vancouver Writers Festival and Seattle Lit Crawl + is Amazon's attempt to buy a city council backfiring?, teens sue Canada over climate inaction, Cascadia coast hospitals not prepared for quake, a variety show created by OR prison inmates & art by Juan Alonso-Rodriguez
Trudeau wins in Canada, but minority government may be good for BC pipeline opponents, US wants to log Alaska's Tongass forest, can Columbia River dams survive a megaquake?, north California town returns land to tribe, Vancouver Book Award announced & visual poetry by Katrina Roberts.
Yakama & Lummi Nations call for removal of three dams on the Columbia River, how BC riding mirrors Canada's four-way federal election, Portland antifa activist killed in hit-and-run, controversy over WA grizzly reintroduction plan, 2019 Washington Book Awards, & poetry by Spokane's Ellen Welcker.
A memorial for old growth cut at Oregon State University, Seattle's filthy rich suburbs, excessive use of solitary confinement at Tacoma immigration jail, starving grizzly photos in BC draw attention to salmon, remembering Vancouver writer Jim Wong-Chu and an essay by Melissa Korbel.
BC Hydro kills hundreds of migrating salmon near Squamish, OR governor bans flavored vaping products, orcas taking in few poisons after new rules, Seattle's new Burke Museum is literally transparent, and poetry by Seattle's Cali Kopczick.
Marmots are in decline, US announces protection for mountain caribou, energy from cow poo in eastern Oregon, WA cities rejecting ICE deportation flights, how classical OR composers engage with popular music & and essay by Jackie Shannon Hollis.
Notes from the Cascadia Innovation Corridor conference + what to do about a polluting Seattle recycling plant, official resigns in BC legislature scandal, WA finally addresses protection for marble murrelet habitat, a documentary on sexual assault by Seattle filmmaker Baljit Sangra, & poetry by Susan Kay Anderson.
Seattle starts arresting sex workers again in turnaround, vaping ban would hit Oregon cannabis industry hard, measures in Idaho would boost wage &, education, WA governor wants wildlife officials to kill fewer wolves, writer JB Fisher investigates a 61-year-old Oregon mystery & poetry by Thomas Brush.
Introducing the our Writing Cascadia Workshops + Vancouver mayor Kennedy Stewart pushes candidates to address Cascadia issues, new documentary brings Spokane domestic violence from shadows, Seattle's Intiman Theatre is still in financial trouble, & a memoir in essays by OR writer Melissa Matthewson.
100,000 turn out for Vancouver climate strike, Spokane mayor's race heats up, MacArthur genius grant to Seattle criminal justice reform advocate, protecting Oregon's spring chinook, a choral symphony performed at a Hanford reactor & poetry by Weston Morrow.
