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Salmon Confidential: Upcoming Film Showing in Tofino 9 Apr 2013 | 02:02 am
Salmon Confidential filmmaker, Twyla Roscovich, follows biologist Dr. Alexandra Morton as she unravels the mysteries of BC’s declining salmon stocks using some of the world’s top fish labs. What she u...
BC takes small but important step 24 Mar 2013 | 08:31 am
Alexandra Morton, speaking on behalf of Salmon are Sacred (salmonaresacred .org), observed, “I am glad that the Christie Clark Liberals (with today’s Discovery Islands announcement) recognize there is...
Orcas chasing sea lions 1 Mar 2013 | 01:58 am
Videographer Adam Chilton doesn’t think surfers in Tofino were at risk from a pod of orcas that came surprisingly close to shore in pursuit of some sea lions. Surfers can be seen paddling and riding ...
Ucluelet Women keeps pet deer 22 Jan 2013 | 01:10 am
Inside their one-storey, metal-roofed, plywood shack on Vancouver Island’s rugged west coast, Janet Schwartz and her domesticated deer, Bimbo, are returning to their normal lives. Against the backgro...
2013 New Year’s Resolution: Salmon Feedlot Boycott 29 Dec 2012 | 12:31 am
Days before the end of 2012, a campaign has been launched that calls for Canadians to stop purchasing and consuming salmon that has been raised in open-net feedlots. SalmonFeedlotBoycott.com (SFB) is...
Missing girl on Vancouver Island 14 Dec 2012 | 11:08 am
Two weeks ago, Shelley Fillipoff put everything on hold and flew from Ottawa to Victoria, B.C., where, day by day, she searches the city streets. She plans to stay there until she finds her daughter. ...
STAND- Power Teaser 2 Nov 2012 | 01:12 am
STAND, presented by Quiksilver Waterman, will take viewers on a journey through the waters of B.C.’s west coast. Through the stories of an aboriginal high school class building their own stand-up padd...
DFO prohibit salmon farming unless certain by 2020 1 Nov 2012 | 09:24 am
Today Justice Bruce Cohen released the Final Report on his $26 million inquiry into the 17-year decline of the Fraser sockeye. Cohen states DFO should be relieved of its duty to promote salmon farming...
Pipeline protest spills democracy on legislature lawn 26 Oct 2012 | 01:45 am
The granola-eaters were… eating granola. And yoghurt and fruit and other Whole Earth fare. The rest of us chased the 7 a.m. cobwebs with bacon and eggs aboard B.C. Ferries’ Queen of Somethingorother t...
Tsunami Debris? 26 Oct 2012 | 01:11 am
Every year, marine debris from a number of sources washes up on coastlines around the world. Along with impacting tens of thousands of lives, the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011...
