Sumas First News Today

Buying out all the properties built in an old Abbotsford, B.C., lakebed hit by devastating floods in 2021 could cost nearly $1 billion. But that’s less than half of the $2.4-billion cost of the most expensive option put forward by the municipality to ward against future floods, a new study has found.

In Abbotsford, blueberries become a metaphor for transracial adoption. An excerpt from The Tyee’s forthcoming essay collection, ‘Points of Interest.’

Changes will help prevent future environmental racism, but it’s unclear how they’ll affect current legal fights against exposure to pollution.

Three First Nations recently won back a swath of their territory next to the site of St. Mary’s Indian Residential School, which ran operated for more than a century. As the nations move forward with plans to develop the area through a precedent-setting land back agreement, survivors and their communities are re-examining the relationship between stolen children and stolen land that cost them the area in the first place.

A combination of rewilding and reconciliation could help B.C. protect its fish and fish habitats while improving the province’s response to climate change, according to one scientist.

First phase to include new Sumas River pump station and improvements to Barrowtown

First phase to include new Sumas River pump station and improvements to Barrowtown

First phase to include new Sumas River pump station and improvements to Barrowtown

Tuesday was an emotional day for students and staff of Upper Sumas Elementary School, which finally reopened following the unprecedented floods that hit Abbotsford, B.C., late last year.

The Government of Canada continues to be there for British Columbians as they recover from the flooding and extreme weather events that devastated the province last November.