Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood is a Sḵwx̱wú7mesh journalist living and writing in North Vancouver. In 2022 she won the Canadian Association of Journalists' Emerging Indigenous Journalist award. She writes stories about Indigenous Rights, the arts, sustainability and social justice. She has worked with The Tyee, Media Indigena, CBC, CiTR 101.9 FM, and National Observer. She earned her Master of Journalism degree at the University of British Columbia. Her best days are spent wandering through the North Shore mountains.
Stories by Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood
How Clayoquot Sound’s War in the Woods transformed a region
Almost 30 years after the ‘war in the woods’ stopped most industrial logging in Clayoquot...
Meet the Cheakamus, the only community forest to develop carbon offsets in B.C.
It may be lesser known than the poster-child Great Bear Rainforest, but the humble Cheakamus...
Canada invests $25 million into natural carbon storage in drought-stricken Prairies
Funds to conserve and restore wetlands and grasslands may provide some relief for Canadian farmers...
Conservationists’ fight against developer’s defamation case a test of B.C.’s law to protect free speech
Lawyers say Todsen Design and Construction’s libel case against two individuals and the Qualicum Nature...
‘Are you poor enough?’: First Nations face compounding financial hardship when defending rights in court
Even though Indigenous Rights are recognized under Indigenous law, the Canadian constitution, treaties and precedent-setting...
DFO ignored pleas from scientists, altered report to downplay risks to imperilled steelhead: docs
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) watered down a scientific report to downplay threats to endangered...
‘All you see is a memory’: inside the Blueberry River First Nations’ fight to repair a broken landscape
In one of the most industrially disturbed regions of British Columbia, a new landscape-based framework...
B.C.’s Copper Mountain mine proposes major tailings pond expansion, sparking cross-border concern
The expansion could increase the height of a dam holding back mining waste to 255...
B.C. charges mining, fracking companies very little for water use, new research finds
Some of the province’s biggest water guzzlers are paying as little as 28 cents for...