Brenna Owen
Reporter | Vancouver
About Brenna Owen
Brenna Owen is a community-driven multimedia journalist and a guest on Coast Salish territory, where she’s completing a Master of Journalism at UBC. She’s also a member of the National Student Investigative Reporting Network. Brenna has travelled to three United Nations climate conferences as a civil society delegate and got her start in journalism at CFRC, the community radio station in Kingston, Ontario.
'Clean' industries eligible for reduced hydro rate as B.C. aims to cut emissions
B.C. is partnering with the province's hydroelectric utility to offer a lower rate for some industries and public transportation agencies with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the province announced on Thursday, January 28, 2021.
B.C.'s top doctor limits staffing at five industrial worksites to slow pandemic
Thousands of workers who would normally return to their jobs at industrial projects in northern British Columbia after the holiday break are spending more time at home in an effort to ease the strain on the region's health-care system.
B.C. lacks strategy to address rising seas, flooding: coastal adaptation researcher
Parts of British Columbia could see massive losses if the province doesn’t start planning for flooding as ocean waters rise and storms surge due to climate change, according to a researcher at the University of British Columbia.
Do Canadian kids need better media literacy?
Kids in Canada need greater access to up-to-date media literacy education to help them navigate what’s real and what’s fake or misleading online, experts say.
Pandemic fuels conspiracy QAnon theories in Canada, experts say
Conspiracy theories, including those propagated by the once-fringe QAnon movement, have gained traction as the COVID-19 pandemic fuels fear, social and economic insecurity, and mistrust in authorities, experts in Canada say.
Hearing over controversial Coastal GasLink pipeline resume
Arguments over the extension of the environmental assessment certificate for a natural gas pipeline in B.C. resumed in court on Friday, October 2, 2020, with lawyers for Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs telling a judge an evaluation is needed on the potential risk of violence to Indigenous women and girls.
B.C. Supreme Court hears Wet'suwet'en petition for review of Coastal Gas Link certificate
Lawyers for the Office of the Wet’suwet’en were in British Columbia Supreme Court on Thursday, October 1, 2020, seeking an order quashing the extension of the environmental assessment certificate for a pipeline that was at the centre of countrywide protests in February.
Lack of bees limiting crop yields across U.S., B.C., study finds
A lack of wild bees and managed honey bees is limiting pollination and yields for certain crops on farms in British Columbia and across the United States, a collective of researchers has found.
Yukoners turn to farming to build self-sufficiency
Yukoners are turning to farming to boost self-sufficiency and build the market for local food, a trend local agriculture experts say is being reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
'Salmon cannon' up and running to help fish past B.C. landslide
A pump system dubbed the salmon cannon is up and running along a remote stretch of British Columbia's Fraser River in order to help fish move past a massive landslide.