Bookish events across Cascadia next week, Cascadia apple exports plummet in Trump's trade war, ICE raids taking a toll on Yakima families, the toxic legacy of BC coal mines, Seattle police accountability in question, the untold stories of Wild Wild Country, and an essay on poet WS Merwin by Michael Wiegers.
Cascadia Magazine original fiction: "Interloper" by Matt Briggs; Vancouver housing is VERY expensive, orca J50 likely dead, the moral case for a carbon fee, fewer arrests for drug users, connecting photographers and prisoners, a poem by Shankar Narayan and a serialized novel by Spokane's Samuel Ligon.
Seattle Mariners: 1, affordable housing: 0; should Indigenous people have more say on oil & gas projects? Nike gambles on Kaepernick, fixing WA's troubled mental health system, Tara Campbell's essay on growing up in Skamania county, and poetry by Constance Schultz.
Into Cascadia's wilderness, Oregon schools start with new security measures, one year after Eagle Creek fire, tariffs hit small solar companies, big boost for Vancouver transit, Seattle artist Anthony White engages with trash, and an interview with memoirist Kelly Sundberg.
More on Trans Mountain pipeline ruling, secrets inside Cascadia's trees, feds making safe injection in Seattle difficult, sexual assault rates high among Indigenous women, a pirate Seattle radio station, an essay of addiction by a BC mountain climber, and an interview with Portland author Patrick deWitt.
An interview with the founders of The Evergrey & Bridgeliner, Canadian court rejects BC pipeline expansion, 800K salmon to be farmed in WA despite phase-out, a quarter of BC wildfires started by humans, a UBC author helps women to reclaim desire, an essay by Michelle Zauner, & much more...
Hike a great trail near Mount St. Helens, an orca mother in Salish Sea grieves for dead calf, anti-abortion measure qualifies for OR ballot, will small growers succeed in BC's legal weed industry?, company hopes electric jets will take off, can Seattle's Showbox Theater be saved & poetry by Chelsea Dingman.
Where to hike this weekend, helping prevent homelessness by slowing evictions, wildfires grow in eastern OR & BC, new solar projects in Cascadia, fighting natural gas, an interview with Gus Van Sant about his new film about Portland cartoonist John Callahan, and poetry by Seattle's Kamari Bright.
Wide-open race for Vancouver city government, wildfires grow in east Cascadia, Seattle restaurant owner accused of sexual assault, will Oregon repeal sanctuary laws?, finding ancient footprints, hard-hitting stand-up from Indigenous comic Howie Echo-Hawk, and short fiction by Leni Zumas.
Seattle names new police chief, wildfires spark evacuations in eastern Cascadia, making sense of proportional representation in BC, anti-union efforts on the rise, threatened butterfly returns to Oregon, imaginary maps of Cascadia, and raising children in a doomed world.
