Island Insider

Tapping into the West Coast’s tidal waters is a highly predictable source of renewable energy that when channelled into a micro-grid might help shift remote communities off dirty diesel to generate electricity.

Author Ruth Ozeki talks about her new work, The Book of Form and Emptiness, which explores grief, love, the nebulous boundaries between madness and creativity, and the complicated relationship humans have with things.

At the current UN summit aiming to pull biodiversity back from the brink, global leaders emphasized conserving nature is vital to achieving climate targets set at COP26.

A new study appears to debunk the prevailing hypothesis that endangered southern resident killer whales are in decline due to plummeting chinook salmon stocks in the Salish Sea during the summer months.

B.C. Premier John Horgan — a self-proclaimed "Trekkie" — is being rebuked by Canadian actor William Shatner for not doing more to protect old-growth forests.

Public pressure and lessons learned from Indigenous peoples and the pandemic are keys to tackling the climate emergency, says Severn Cullis-Suzuki, the David Suzuki Foundation’s new executive director.

Outer coast killer whales, a little-known type of orca, have a vocal dialect and culture distinct from their West Coast cousins in B.C. and specialize in hunting big game, such as gray whale calves, massive elephant seals, and sea lions in California ocean waters.

The deep impacts of the climate crisis means Canadian media needs to do a better job at illustrating the connections on seemingly disparate issues, and come up with better solutions to mitigate global warming, says journalist Sean Holman.

Homalco Chief Darren Blaney has the tragic distinction of being a third-generation residential school survivor. 

Coextinction, set to premiere in Canada at the Vancouver International Film Festival, shows how the survival of southern resident killer whales is tied to the collapse of wild salmon populations and injustice against Indigenous peoples displaced as environmental stewards.

Activists, the RCMP, and logging company Teal-Jones are in B.C. Supreme Court this week to contest whether an injunction for the Fairy Creek old-growth blockades should be extended.

B.C. conservationists are wondering if Fisheries and Oceans Canada is going rogue and defying ministry orders by opening a commercial fishery on the Fraser River when endangered salmon stocks are collapsing.

B.C. Supreme Court applications to expand or curb RCMP powers of enforcement at the Fairy Creek old-growth blockades are moving forward this week.

In the past two federal elections, Vancouver Island has been a stronghold for the NDP, and one campaign observer predicts it will largely stay that way after Sept. 20. 

Pundits predict Paul Manly won't regain his seat as a result of turmoil at the leadership level, but the Nanaimo-Ladysmith incumbent says he has strong support, and voters will back him based on his work in the riding and in Ottawa.