Dirk Meissner
Reporter with The Canadian Press
About Dirk Meissner
Bird watchers, plant lovers, nature seekers find sanctuary at oasis in city core
The bird watchers gather in the parking lot at the Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary, binoculars and cameras at their sides, chattering about their most recent siting of a tiny wren or a noisy warbler.
151st Cowichan Exhibition includes new category: best home-grown pot
One of Canada's oldest fall fairs is putting a new twist on its annual showcase of local livestock, produce and fruit by adding a new category for best home-grown marijuana.
Time of essence as Fraser River slide blocks spawning salmon: Wilkinson
Time is critical to find a solution to a massive obstruction in British Columbia's Fraser River as 90,000 salmon wait downstream and an estimated two million more sockeye are about to arrive, federal Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Tuesday, August 6, 2019.
Mount Polley mine disaster five years later; emotions, accountability unresolved
People are swimming and fishing in Quesnel Lake five years after the largest environmental mining disaster in Canadian history, but residents of Likely, B.C., are still struggling with unresolved emotions about what happened and who will be held accountable for the dam collapse at the Mount Polley mine.
Vancouver Island treaty agreement in principle includes West Coast trail lands
A popular British Columbia backcountry trail known for challenging hikers is slated to become part of a treaty agreement in principle between the federal and provincial governments and two Vancouver Island First Nations.
B.C. teen overdose inquest recommends improvements in substance abuse treatment
A British Columbia coroner's inquest jury recommends improvements in provincial substance abuse treatment, detection and prevention services for young people following an inquest into the overdose of a Victoria-area teen.
Indigenous drummers lead pipeline protesters on 22-kilometre march in Victoria
The government approval of the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion won't stop efforts in British Columbia to halt the project, protesters gathered outside Victoria's city hall said on Saturday, June 22, 2019.
Teens have privacy rights, doctor tells inquest into 16-year-old's opioid death
Two family doctors and an orthopedic surgeon told a British Columbia coroner's inquest on Thursday, June 20, 2019, about the dilemmas they faced treating a 16-year-old patient who denied he was abusing drugs but showed signs of a growing opioid addiction.
Butterfly garden keeper manages to film large tarantula shedding exoskeleton
A 20-centimetre tarantula capable of killing a bird has been filmed at its most vulnerable state shedding its armour-like exoskelton at a Victoria-area tropical jungle insectarium.
Victoria council debates asking Ottawa to help fund Remembrance Day
A move to seek federal funding for Victoria's annual Remembrance Day events may have backfired, the city's mayor said on Friday, June 7, 2019.