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Every Tuesday for a year now, 76-year-old Carl Olsen has stood on the Trans-Canada Highway at Vancouver Island's Goldstream Provincial Park protesting the province’s plan to widen the roadway.
$162-million plan for 2.6 kilometres of the Malahat corridor within Goldstream Provincial Park was reaffirmed in last month’s provincial budget.
The protected area covers nearly 700 square miles of the tribes’ ancestral ocean and coastal lands between the California-Oregon border to just south of Trinidad in Humboldt County.
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Tsawout First Nation says the proposed bylaw encroaches on its traditional rights and will damage the island’s ecology by putting too many people in the location
Staff and residents at Veterans Memorial Lodge in Victoria, together with members of the Tsawout First Nation, commemorated the 20th anniversary of a totem pole created by Indigenous artist Calvin Hunt to reflect the legacy of Indigenous veterans who served in the Canadian Armed Forces.