Minority cannabis businesses in Cascadia seek equity in the legal weed industry, Seattle Times slams WA legislature, Oregon moves to protect net neutrality, BC professor wants to kill single family homes, a new album from Portland's Haley Heynderickx, and fiction from BC author Alix Hawley.
Entrepreneurs like Raft Hollingsworth are creating new minority-owned cannabis businesses across Cascadia. But people of color face huge hurdles in the race to enter the Northwest's legal weed industry--although new efforts are taking shape to increase equity in communities hit hardest by the War on Drugs.
WA senate passes ban on "bump stocks," does Portland's mayor want to clear homeless out of downtown?, navy fuel spill in Straight of Georgia, is eastern OR ready for the big Cascadia quake?, a new film exploring Cambodian Seattle in the 90s, & a review of a history of the Secwepemc people of BC.
Gun control measures stall in WA legislature, Oregon may delay vote on part of carbon cap & trade bill, BC wine makers challenge Alberta ban, high-skilled immigrants in Seattle face new hurdles, an interview with Portland surrealist painter Elizabeth Malaska, and a poem at Poetry Northwest by Mia Kang.
BC pipeline sands oil a losing economic prospect, WA moves to ban salmon farms & death penalty, meth use on the rise in OR, the hidden sexual harassment crisis among farm workers, what's Donna Miscolta reading? And a poem by Alex Gallo-Brown.
Cascadia Magazine original story: short fiction by Seattle writer Donna Miscolta. Plus, BC continues to confront outrage over Colten Boushie case, a new group pushing for high-speed rail in Cascadia, will WA legislature ban cancer-causing foam, a sperm whale sighting, and un-natural motherhood by Leni Zumas.
Cascadia Magazine original: meet the Indigenous activists fighting a pipeline across British Columbia. Plus: First Nations react to acquittal in Colten Boushie murder case, Seattle's hostile architecture against homeless, trying to save a rare lily in Oregon, & a brutally frank essay by BC's Terese Mailhot.
Vancouver's fifteen year experiment with safe injection, Amazon's dirty climate secret, Trump proposes huge budget cuts to Hanford cleanup, the ecological value of driftwood, Charles Johnson on mindfulness and black America, a poem by Portland's Matthew Dickman.
Get outside on a hike to Warrior Rock lighthouse near Portland, Alberta's pipeline mess, WA legislature considers bill to confront violence against Indigenous women, benefits of high speed rail, restoring the Elwha River, Spokane poet Ellen Welcker's "feral opera" and a poem by Rachel Cedar.
Three poems by Portland poet Samiya Bashir, BC First Nations plan protest against pipeline in March, will Cascadia offer amnesty to pot offenders? WA bill to protect voters' rights, sequencing genes of redwoods, excavating the painful history of Chinese in Northwest, & Douglas Coupland loves typography.
