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Klahoose First Nation is one of the largest First Nations forest tenure holders and forestry operators in B.C. They hope to soon be the only licensee in their territory.
The Connected Coast’s fibre-optic spine to bring rapid internet to coastal communities will snake more than 3,400 kilometres along the coast south from Prince Rupert and Haida Gwaii and around Vancouver Island —– becoming one of the longest coastal subsea networks in the world.
Larry Johnson takes the responsibility of his traditional name — Anii-tsa-chist, or Keeper of the Sea — bestowed to him three decades ago by a much-respected uncle very seriously. “I’m very proud of the name,” said Johnson, the president of Nuu-chah-nulth (NCN) Seafood, and a fisherman descended from generations of fishermen. “It is an honour to hold it and to try to live up to that name, and that's what I try to do every day,” he said. It’s why Johnson is so excited by the prospects of seaweed aquaculture, one of the newest ventures NCN Seafood has undertaken in partnership w...
Quick action by a small, remote First Nation on the West Coast appears to have smothered the spread of COVID-19 in the tiny island community. But the next big step for the Klahoose First Nation will be to maintain the gains it's made and continue with household bubbles over the holidays, Chief Kevin Peacey said. The Klahoose community on Cortes Island, B.C., emerged from lockdown last Tuesday after quarantine ended for all four individuals affected by the virus and no new cases were identified, Peacey said. Get top stories in your inbox. Our award-winning journalists bring you the news that i...
The last thing Byron Harry imagined having to stickhandle during a COVID-19 community lockdown was a cougar leaping onto his truck. Harry was pulling a graveyard shift at the Klahoose Nation’s emergency checkpoint, which was set up to contain a cluster of cases that had broken out in the remote community on B.C.’s Cortes Island just days before. The logistics and operations team leader with the community’s emergency operation centre (EOC) was sitting in his vehicle working under the glow of his laptop at 3 a.m. when he felt the tailgate dip. Get top stories in your inbox.