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.
West Coast infrastructure is on the rise to stem the wave of ocean plastics
Marine debris recycling depots are being set up in coastal communities to feed a circular plastics economy in B.C. — and beyond.
New hunting ban aims to preserve B.C.’s rare spirit bear
Some First Nations on B.C.’s central coast are celebrating now that black bear hunting in their territories is closed to protect the exceptional cream-coloured spirit bears concentrated there.
Primary health care ‘collapsing’ in B.C. rural communities, critics say
Back-to-back closures of small community emergency rooms in North Vancouver Island over the weekend is another example of the overall erosion of the primary care system in rural communities, the BC Green Party and the BC Nurses’ Union say.
Islanders worry they’ll be marooned if medical emergency strikes at night
With local crew shortages impacting BC Ferries' ability to transport ambulances overnight, Quadra Island residents fear BC Emergency Health Services is leaving them stranded in medical emergencies.
Mining risks for Pacific Northwest salmon murky due to lack of transparent data
The impact of mining on key salmon watersheds in northwestern Canada and the U.S. is impossible to gauge because of a lack of transparency and access to data, a cross-border study finds.
With no place to live, some B.C. seniors are couch-surfing
A lack of appropriate housing and services is leaving B.C. seniors vulnerable, provincial advocate Isobel Mackenzie says.
Canada hopes to lure more nations into fighting illicit fishing on the high seas
Canada is championing an alliance pledged to combat illicit fishing on the high seas and urged international partners to protect 30 per cent of the world's marine areas by 2030 at a recent UN Ocean Conference.
Recycling isn’t the ‘panacea’ that saves oceans from plastic
Canada and its international partners have to commit to weaning themselves off unnecessary plastics and aggressively creating a global circular economy to curb marine plastic pollution at the UN Ocean Conference in Lisbon.
New land trust creates a rare climate zone ‘backbone’ that stretches Saturna Island
The Money Creek conservancy protects and connects biodiversity in B.C.'s scarce Coastal Douglas Fir zone.
Save Old Growth organizer slated for release from immigration holding centre
One Save Old Growth activist is expected to be released from custody while another remains in jail for another week after corrections staff failed to get him to his bail hearing.