Judith Lavoie

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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

Dora Blondin hangs trout from Great Bear Lake

Healing and hope: how Indigenous guardians are transforming conservation

By Judith Lavoie

Feb. 13, 2019 6 min. read

Australia has reached its international conservation commitments through Indigenous Protected Areas, creating 3,000 jobs in...

A playground in Fort Chipewyan overlooking Lake Athabasca.

Ottawa’s Wood Buffalo plan ‘not good enough’: First Nations

By Judith Lavoie

Feb. 7, 2019 7 min. read

Canada’s largest national park is at risk of losing its status as a World Heritage...

Fish Lake, known as Teztan Biny in Tsilhqot’in language.

Taseko Mines tells court Ottawa erred in rejecting New Prosperity mine

By Judith Lavoie

Feb. 5, 2019 5 min. read

The company argues the project — twice-rejected at the federal level and opposed by the...

Mike Sawyer

Coastal GasLink pipeline permitted through illegal process, lawsuit contends

By Judith Lavoie

Jan. 11, 2019 8 min. read

The controversial gas pipeline at the centre of clashes between RCMP officers and Indigenous land...

Encana gas well

Industry-hired experts downplay impacts of major projects: UBC study

By Judith Lavoie

Dec. 21, 2018 8 min. read

A review of 10 recent environmental impact assessments in B.C. found professionals hired by companies...

Proposed site of Teck's Frontier Mine 30 km south of Wood Buffalo National Park. If built, it would be the largest mine ever constructed in Alberta's oilsands.

Parks Canada shirks UN request for review of Site C dam impacts on imperilled national park

By Judith Lavoie

Dec. 11, 2018 7 min. read

UNESCO issued a stern warning that, in order to keep Wood Buffalo National Park off...

Teck warned of federal charges under the Fisheries Act, financial documents reveal

By Judith Lavoie

Dec. 10, 2018 7 min. read

The company has been put on notice regarding the persistent discharge of selenium pollution into...

Courtnay Redding Grand Forks Flooding

‘We have been ill-prepared’: B.C. offers flooded Grand Forks businesses disaster relief six months in

By Judith Lavoie

Dec. 5, 2018 8 min. read

A combination of climate change, clearcut logging and outdated emergency response practices are being blamed...

Courtnay and Jesse Redding Grand Forks flood

Grand Forks residents prep for winter in sheds, RVs after catastrophic flooding

By Judith Lavoie

Nov. 26, 2018 19 min. read

Downstream of the southern province’s barren cutblocks, Grand Forks, British Columbia, was devastated by spring...

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