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
Canada, U.S. governments watching, but not intervening, in coal mine pollution controversy
8 min. readU.S. officials accused Canada of of omitting information on selenium pollution flowing from B.C.’s Elk...
B.C.’s mines represent a staggering liability for taxpayers: report
The province holds only $1 billion in financial assurance against a $2.1 billion cleanup liability
Federal funding for Wood Buffalo National Park a drop in bucket: First Nations
Commitment of $27.5 million for Canada's largest national park will boost staffing, but will it...
Canada suppressing data on coal mine pollution, say U.S. officials
International treaty at risk as Canadian commissioners accused of omitting information on selenium pollution flowing...
Green MLA Adam Olsen on how B.C.’s new fish farm rules could backfire
‘We are allowing these companies to pollute for free’
‘Nowhere else to turn’: First Nations inundated by oilsands projects face impossible choices
Indigenous communities living downstream of the Alberta oilsands say regulatory processes favour industry, creating a...
Where is the action to save Wood Buffalo National Park?
Progress has been slow since UNESCO monitors visited the 44,807 square kilometre park at the...
Wood Buffalo: Canada’s largest national park and its people in peril
International officials are warning the Canadian government not enough is being done to protect the...
Tsilhqot’in back in court in fight over Fish Lake as Taseko Mines readies for exploration
The Tsilhqot’in Nation is back in court this week in another effort to stop Taseko...