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
On B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, some of Canada’s oldest living trees escape the chopping block
14 min. readThe treasured high-elevation Dakota Bowl has been slated for auction with BC Timber Sales every...
Mount Polley loses appeal of $9,000 penalty for violating new wastewater permit
The company responsible for Canada’s largest tailings spill failed to meet new provincial conditions for...
No longer a rainforest: B.C.’s Sunshine Coast improvises to survive long-term drought
Farmers, gardeners, brewers and regional managers are banding together in a beautiful partnership to both...
Federal watchdog urged to investigate Canada’s ‘longstanding failure’ to stop B.C. Elk Valley coal mine pollution
Report from the University of Victoria’s Environmental Law Centre says new proposed mines could further...
Site C dam, oilsands pushing Canada’s largest national park closer to endangered list
Despite repeated calls for action from the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, Canada has failed to...
Audit of B.C.’s tailings pond regulations casts shadow on government’s ‘world class’ mining claims
B.C. positions itself as a world leader in responsible mining, but an internal review of...
How to heal a river
After more than a century of logging, agriculture and now-accelerating development, Vancouver Island's Koksilah River...
Tsilhqot’in Nation fights B.C.’s approval of Gibraltar mine’s waste discharge into Fraser River
A provincial permit allows the mine to discharge the equivalent of nearly 10 Olympic-sized swimming...
‘Smoke and mirrors’: Indigenous groups, conservationists challenge report claiming B.C. mines have no impact on Alaska waters
Critics raise concerns about joint B.C.-Alaska government report that had input from industry, saying the...
