Rochelle Baker
Journalist | Quadra Island |
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About Rochelle Baker
Rochelle Baker is the Quadra and Cortes Islands reporter for Canada's National Observer, thanks to a grant from the Local Journalism Initiative of the Government of Canada. Rochelle has worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer in BC's Lower Mainland for over 10 years.
Ceremonial tour of memorial for residential school children offers connection
The tour of carver Stan C. Hunt's monument to residential school children provides a touchstone for understanding and grief on National Indigenous People's Day.
Canada must speed decarbonizing ports to slash rising shipping emissions
Canada urgently needs to chart a course of action to drastically reduce the shipping sector’s surging greenhouse gas emissions, says an International coalition working to decarbonize the maritime industry.
B.C. rolls out rural transportation surveys but the roadmap for action is unclear
B.C. is examining long-standing roadblocks to intercity transportation for rural communities on Vancouver Island and other underserved areas in the province.
Cut off by wildfire, B.C. communities must wait another week for vital route to reopen
Rocks the size of coffee mugs continue to drop hundreds of feet down steep bluffs onto Highway 4, an important transportation route closed by wildfire activity on Vancouver Island a week ago.
B.C. communities on edge as wildfire shuts down highway, slowing deliveries of fuel, medicine
Vancouver Island communities isolated by a stubborn wildfire and ongoing Highway 4 closure urge tourists not to visit and avoid the risky detour route to ease the load on the fragile supply chain.
B.C. launches blueprint to fend off climate’s ‘one-two punch’ on the ocean
B.C. has created a new plan to tackle the twin spectres of ocean acidification and dwindling oxygen levels seen as leading climate threats for coastal communities, marine ecosystems and industry along the West Coast.
‘This is how we live now’
“This is at least the third year where I've had to wear a respirator,” says Sayward, B.C., resident Shannon Briggs, whose children are growing up in the age of apocalyptic wildfires.
Saving the Cowichan Estuary from drowning in a climate-fed ‘coastal squeeze’
A massive restoration project is getting underway this summer in a bid to save vital wildlife habitat in the Cowichan Estuary from drowning and disappearing as climate change spurs sea level rise.
DFO raids seafood company, possibly over federal agency's own paperwork error
Fisheries enforcement officers are taking an unnecessary and heavy-handed approach over what appears to be a bureaucratic error caused the Department of Fisheries’ own licensing branch, said Sonia Strobel, CEO of Skipper Otto community-supported fishery.
Dirty water: Fisheries on West Coast may be vulnerable to money laundering
The lack of transparency about who owns or controls commercial fishing licences, quota and vessels in Canada makes B.C. fisheries attractive targets for criminals looking to launder money, former RCMP deputy commissioner Peter German cautioned a federal fisheries committee.