Vancouver Island

Recent research suggests youth struggling with illicit drug use may use cannabis to mitigate the risk of overdose and that establishing housing, work and income supports is their priority before treatment. 

Vancouver Island marmots may just be the antidote required for the dystopian times we are living in.

The Pacific Salmon Explorer, a user-friendly data-visualization tool, provides valuable insights into the current health of salmon across British Columbia. 

“You only have to look out the window right now to see the effects of climate change,” Erik Krogh, Vancouver Island University air quality researcher, as smoke from U.S. wildfires smothers southern British Columbia.

British Columbia's success at flattening the curve on COVID-19 will allow the easing of more restrictions on businesses, recreation and travel, says Premier John Horgan, who urged people to celebrate carefully when visiting a lake or the beach.

Early runs of Stuart sockeye and chinook salmon were devastated last year because they couldn't make it past a massive landslide on British Columbia's Fraser River, government officials said on Tuesday, June 9, 2020.

The escape of an estimated 20,000 non-native fish off Vancouver Island demonstrates the urgent need to phase out ocean-based farming and calls into question the federal government's own five-year deadline, say wild salmon advocates.

It seems barely a day goes by without an announcement about layoffs, temporary closures or permanent mill shut downs in British Columbia's struggling forest industry.

A young plaintiff in a lawsuit against the federal government says she has suffered the debilitating consequences of Lyme disease because climate change has expanded the habitat of disease-carrying ticks.

The contenders in Monday's, October 21, 2019, federal election spent the last day of the campaign calling for voters to unite behind their parties amid accusations of dirty politicking and outright lying.

Four days before Canadians go to the polls, the leaders of Canada's three largest federal parties argued on Thursday, October 17, 2019, over how the country will be governed if there is no clear winner on election day.

Andrew Scheer says he is personally against abortion, but promised a Conservative government under his leadership would not reopen the debate.

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer did not take part in Friday's, September 27, 2019, massive climate-change marches as Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau waded in deep, accepting the criticism of teenaged climate-change activist Greta Thunberg along the way.

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau met teenaged Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg in Montreal on Friday, September 27, 2019, in advance of the cross-country marches that are expected to dominate the federal election campaign.

Climate change will dominate the federal election campaign today, Friday 27, 2019, with most of the leaders joining marches demanding cuts to greenhouse-gas emissions.