B.C.

The internal survey gathered data based on one question: "In the past 12 months, have you worried that food would run out before you got money to buy more?" 

Lucretia Schanfarber, who lives on the remote edges of a tiny B.C. island plagued by shaky internet service, has launched free, weekly Zoom gatherings to inform, inspire and connect gardeners worldwide.

Maurita Prato and her team, with help from other community members, organizations and funders, were able to start a "Good Food Box" program, which delivered free and healthy boxes to people’s homes at the beginning of the pandemic.

Julia Smith has a problem. Despite litters of fast-growing piglets and surging demand for her pork, she can’t find an abattoir that can slaughter them before December. Demand for local meat has surged during the pandemic, leaving the province’s abattoirs booked months in advance and many small-scale producers struggling.  

Elizabeth Moore, an Indigenous food gatherer, works with schools, hospitals and the greater community to increase food security and knowledge in the area.

But the survey done by Research Co., found 19 per cent of people in B.C. are steering away from ordering food because of worries surrounding COVID-19.

Lawyers for Climate Justice believe their colleagues should consider taking on pro bono work where they can help with efforts to cut carbon pollution.

The food policy lead for the Kamloops Food Policy Council spoke to Canada’s National Observer about how the group is making that happen. 

Last week, the provincial Ministry of Agriculture announced that starting next year, anyone rearing farm animals — everything from bees to llamas to cattle — in the province will need to register their property under the government’s Premises ID program.

Simon Fraser University professor Tim Takaro is set to have challenge of pipeline company's injunction order heard in court on March 3.

The delivery service’s additional fee has since been called “ridiculous” by Premier John Horgan, while Jobs Minister Ravi Kahlon said the solicitor general’s office will consider seeking legal action against the company.

When reputable organizations pull their investments in fossil fuels, they help marginalize oil, gas and coal companies, write James Rowe, Jeff Corntassel, Emily Lowan and Juliet Watts.

The report, released by the Salmon Coast Field station, analyzed more than 150 salmon populations in the Broughton Archipelago and inlets on northeast Vancouver Island and the central coast.

He has worked in food system development for eight years and is now the provincial manager of Can You Dig It at the Public Health Association of BC.

Farmer Shannon Roberts says the CP Rail expansion would completely change her life. If it moves forward, Roberts says Blooming Meadows, where she grows flowers and garlic with her sister, would be 150 metres from the site.