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Kitimat, B.C.

B.C. town ‘built by industry’ adjusts to life with LNG

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Marty Clemens

July 16, 2025 8 min. read

A 90-metre flare lit the skies over Kitimat as LNG Canada readied its systems in...

In Bella Bella the sky is soft and pale blue, with warm light illuminating houses and a larger building covered in Heiltsuk art. Two children ride their bikes down the wide open street

The climate is in chaos. Housing is unattainable. This First Nation is building homes to face turbulent times

By Steph Kwetásel’wet Wood

July 15, 2025 12 min. read

Heiltsuk Nation is just one Indigenous community in B.C. working to build homes that are...

A volunteer firefighter sits beside a chainsaw and gas during a fire training in Argenta, B.C.

‘It’s not just a drill’: inside one B.C. community’s grassroots wildfire response

By Louis Bockner

July 14, 2025 7 min. read

The small community of Argenta, B.C. tackled a massive wildfire in 2024 — now they're...

Kelowna housing: An aerial view of the Wilden real estate development built up around Walroy Lake and other connected wetlands

When housing policy is climate policy

By Lindsay Sample

July 11, 2025

In this week’s newsletter, we spotlight how B.C. communities are navigating twin crises simultaneously

An aerial view of grasslands on the eastern slopes of Kelowna, with agricultural and urban development sprawling out below towards the shores of Okanagan Lake

In the shadow of Kelowna’s housing boom, fragile ecosystems depend on those fighting to save them

By Ainslie Cruickshank

July 10, 2025 15 min. read

As urban sprawl threatens the Okanagan’s rare grasslands, a proposed wildlife corridor offers a glimmer...

A photo of a group of people walking with umbrellas in the rain with trees in the background

‘We’re going to create space for our animals’: B.C., feds commit $8 million for ecological corridors

By Ainslie Cruickshank and Aaron Hemens (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

July 9, 2025 5 min. read

Funding will help communities identify, plan and improve corridors that link vital patches of wildlife...

An illustration of a tree planters' tent camp in a forest at night, with a first aid tent to one side. A shadow looms over the tents, representing the threat of sexual violence.

Out of the shadows: confronting sexual violence in tree-planting

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

July 9, 2025(Updated May 15, 2026) 16 min. read

Drop a group of young people into a remote forest and some will find fun...

A gas pipeline station at sunset

Oil giant broke deal to deactivate thousands of pipelines and faced no penalty, documents reveal

By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter) and Zak Vescera

July 7, 2025 6 min. read

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. failed to deliver on a promise to deactivate thousands of inactive...

A plane from the BC Wildfire Service flies near a plume of smoke from a wildfire above Argenta

This B.C. company says it can change the weather to stop lightning and wildfires — but won’t say how

By Jesse Winter

July 2, 2025 8 min. read

The startup claims it can prevent wildfires by disrupting lightning before it strikes. Experts say...

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