Sidney Coles
About Sidney Coles
Sidney Coles holds PhDs in comparative literature and applied psychology from the University of Toronto. She is a freelance journalist living on traditional Lekwungen Territory in Victoria, B.C., whose writing focuses mainly on the impact of extractive industries on Indigenous land rights.
First Nations in B.C. forge alliances over shared environmental concerns
A four-day event livestreamed multiple expert panels and Q&As on diverse topics from deep sea mining, climate change, tanker traffic, and a deep dive on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and their deep impacts on communities.
When your duty to protect the land clashes with settler laws
In B.C., Indigenous Peoples are expected to move seamlessly between two worlds and two sets of laws — sacred law and colonial law. When these are in conflict, they are asked to abandon one for the other.
From wildfires to logging: What we really lose if we lose the trees
We disrupt the current programming of the “wildfire season” to tell you that those trees, the TMX pipeline and those ancient fires are connected.
A deeper look at the dark history behind Gordon Lightfoot's song
Canadian folk icon Gordon Lightfoot reflected back to us one of our most enduring national myths. The Canadian Railroad Trilogy was powerful stuff.