Judith Lavoie
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@LavoieJudith Judith Lavoie is an award-winning journalist based in Victoria, British Columbia. Lavoie covered environment and First Nations stories for the Victoria Times Colonist for more than 20 years and is now working as a freelancer. She previously worked on newspapers in New Brunswick, Cyprus, England and the Middle East. Lavoie has won four Webster awards and has been nominated for a National Newspaper Award and a Michener Award.
Stories by Judith Lavoie
‘Removing the evidence of our existence’: logging of culturally important trees rampant in B.C.
11 min. readCulturally modified trees are an important marker of Indigenous Peoples’ presence on and stewardship of...
‘They were forced off their territory’: all eyes on precedent-setting Vancouver Island title case
For weeks, the B.C. Supreme Court has been hearing arguments by the Nuchatlaht First Nation...
B.C. allows logging in critical habitat of one of the province’s sole recovering caribou herds
Satellite imagery reveals new cutblocks are ‘nibbling away’ at the critical habitat of the endangered...
Sea lice are becoming more resistant to pesticides — that’s a problem for B.C.’s beleaguered salmon farms
Open-net fish pens are the perfect breeding grounds for the parasites, which feast on the...
Nuchatlaht take fight for heavily logged territory to B.C. Supreme Court. Here’s what you need to know
Extensive industrial clearcutting destroyed salmon streams on an island the B.C. government says the Nuchatlaht...
Oversights and overstatements: where B.C.’s mine waste audit fell short
Despite the province’s world-class claims, the safety of mine tailings storage is not up to...
New salmon farm proposals for B.C. coast raise questions about Ottawa’s promised 2025 phase-out
Twelve proposals to expand or create new open-net pen operations — many pitched in partnership...
Why Imperial Metals surrendered its mining rights in B.C.’s Skagit headwaters
After the mining company accepted $24 million from a coalition of groups in exchange for...
Connecting the dots between B.C.’s floods, landslides and the clearcut logging of old forests
Deforestation dramatically alters how landscapes are able to cope with extreme weather events like the...
