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.
A hike up Oregon's Tomlike Mountain + the story of a Seattle couple deported to Mexico, federal banking act helps Cascadia pot shops, a radical experiment in no-barrier housing, how did a humpback whale in BC die?, portraits of Portland writers, and poetry by Shin Yu Pail
New poetry by Melinda Price Wiltshire, city of Seattle's pension fund invests in private prisons, OR ballot measure would decriminalize drugs, new court delay for TransMountain pipeline, Yakima's homeless crisis, Spokane need more strip clubs! & a new Haida manga by Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas.
Thousands of young people march for action on climate across Cascadia, investigating wind energy off the Oregon coast, WA's Methow Valley prepares for wildfire, creating a sanctuary for orcas, four Seattle artists working to highlight climate change and poetry by Risa Denenberg.
Justin Trudeau in hot water over blackface pics from Vancouver teaching days, strong gun storage measure aims for the OR ballot, will churches save Seattle's tiny villages?, how opioids ravaged Alaska Indigenous communities, and poetry by Shin Yu Pai.
Vancouver's beloved Canuck the Crow is missing, will anti-fascist flags fly at Portland Timbers matches?, BC woman wins case on medically assisted death, US govt. to expand area for orca protection, saving shrub-steppe ecosystems, and flash fiction by Seattle's Anastacia-Reneé.
A fascinating night at Cascadia Magazine's Words & Ideas reading, bus crash raises concerns about BC forest roads, Seattle mulls minimum pay for Uber drivers, BC ends "birth alerts," Bering Sea ice melt hits Seattle fishing fleet, a tribute to August Wilson and an essay by Portland writer Janice Lee.
"Three Abortions in Oregon" by Sophia Shalmiyev, Seattle streetcar expansion off the rails, The Blob returns to the coast of Cascadia, the people of BC really want to stop turning their clocks forward & backward, the fascinating history of an all-black WW2 paratroop unit in Oregon & poetry by Shin Yu Pai.
First Nations & unions call for action on dwindling salmon, will Vancouver build low-cost modular housing across the city?, broken lock at dam halts barge traffic on Columbia, how women and people of color are shaking up Oregon's arts organizations, and poetry by Gabrielle Bates.
