Tag: British Columbia

Get Outside! Enderby Cliffs

Enderby Cliffs in British Columbia's north Okanagan country is an exhilarating hike to the top of striking cliffs with dizzying views. In autumn look for soaring raptors and golden western larches.

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Clear Cut: Saving BC’s Inland Rainforest

Northern British Columbia's inland rainforest, a rare ecosystem with 1,000-year-old trees, is under threat from clear-cut logging. Activists are working to protect these relatively unknown forests, home to wildlife including endangered mountain caribou.

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Get Outside! Old Glory Mountain

This challenging hike to the top of a 2,377-metre peak in British Columbia's Rossland Range offers astonishing view of peaks on both sides of the US-Canada border as well as abundant wildflowers and the site of a historic weather station.

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Get Outside! Mount Erskine

The highest peak on British Columbia's Salt Spring Island (sans roads and towers), Erskine contains old-growth forest, impressive cliffs, jaw-dropping views, and opportunities to view endangered sharp-tailed snakes and even some elusive forest elves...

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Sea Star and Ode to a Crow

Two poems by Vancouver's Fiona Tinwei Lam explore human interactions with nature in Cascadia: observations on the endangered sunflower sea stars of the West Coast, and an ode to Canuck, Vancouver's most famous crow.

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House Arrest

Poet Danika Dinsmore gives an impassioned, first person account of being arrested and sentenced for demonstrating against expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline across British Columbia.

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British Columbia’s Basic Income Study

University of British Columbia economist David Green has been commissioned by the BC government to study the pros and cons of basic income. In an era of automation and income inequality, a basic income could provide stability -- but critics on the left and right question its cost and effectiveness.

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Fighting for Peace Valley

Residents of British Columbia's Peace Valley -- including members of the Saulteau First Nations -- are fighting the controversial Site C dam project, which would flood their land and alter the region's ecology. Alison Bate talks with families whose lives have been turned upside down by the project.

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