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Earl Muldoe, the famous Gitxsan Hereditary Chief, died last week. This is his powerful legacy.

VANCOUVER - Former Vancouver mayor Philip Owen, a driving force behind North America's first life-saving supervised drug injection clinic, has died.

Article content A woman has filed a $1.25 million lawsuit against the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, alleging that, while she was a scholarship student, she was sexually harassed by her mentor and the foundation then pressured her to sign a non-disclosure agreement to keep it quiet. Cherry Smiley, 38, is a member of the Nlaka’pamux Nation in British Columbia and the Dine’ Nation. She received a scholarship to the foundation in 2016, when she was in the second year of her PhD program at Concordia University in Montreal. She alleges she was sexually harassed by her mentor, Stephen Kakfw...

This dispute resembles the protests over Clayoquot Sound (also on the west coast of Vancouver Island). Dubbed the “War in the Woods,” more than 850 people were arrested in 1993 for blockading logging roads. That protest, sparked by a decision to allow logging in the area, was the largest act of civil disobedience in Canadian history and a seminal event in the history of the environmental movement. This research can shed light on current and future conflicts. People who support the goals and values of a movement can be drawn into it, what social movement scholars call “the mobilization ...

How to Sell a Carbon Tax. And Not In Oregon, conservative politicians literally run and hide from carbon pricing. How did BC’s similar party make it law? Erik Neumann Today | Jefferson Public Radio / InvestigateWest Erik Neumann is a radio producer and writer. The story was published as partner of a partnership with InvestigateWest. SHARES A man holding a sign opposing Oregon’s climate bill talks to fellow rallygoers from the roof of a truck at an event on the Oregon Capitol steps in Salem, June 27, 2019. Photo by Bryan M. Vance, OPB. [Editor’s note: Thi...