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
28 Indigenous Guardian programs get federal funding
4 min. readPilot programs to help young people get onto land and monitor fishing, tourism activities
How B.C. proposes to roll back industry self-regulation
Province takes first steps to improve system that makes industry consultants responsible for environmental monitoring
Did B.C. misrepresent public ‘support’ for Douglas-fir protection plan?
The province recently celebrated ‘98 per cent’ support for a forest plan but, upon closer...
Canada’s new Indigenous Protected Area heralds new era of conservation
The 14,000 square kilometres of rugged boreal forest and sprawling wetlands in the Northwest Territories...
How this man’s legal challenge could stall LNG Canada
A massive new fracked gas export plant in Kitimat may have just received the go-ahead,...
Teck Resources pegged with $8 million fine for toxic smelter pollution of Columbia River
U.S. judge rules it is ‘inconceivable’ company did not know its Trail, B.C. lead and...
The death of Trans Mountain pipeline signals future of Indigenous rights: Chiefs
As a federal court quashes the controversial project, lawyers and Indigenous leaders agree it’s more...
B.C. court okays Taseko’s exploratory drilling in Indigenous park for rejected mine project
A decades-long battle against the New Prosperity mine, proposed within the bounds of sacred Tsilhqot’in...
Tsilhqot’in call on NDP to pull last-gasp mine permit issued by BC Liberals
Taseko’s twice-rejected New Prosperity mine conflicts with First Nation’s land use plan