Canadian National News
By Rochelle Baker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Conservation groups want Ottawa to dramatically curtail the recreational fishery as it did with the commercial fishery last week in order to save wild salmon on the West Coast. But the sport sector, equally keen to protect the prized but diminishing chinook salmon, wants Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) to make sure any further measures…
By Sam Laskaris, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Officials with Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame are continuing their quest to raise awareness and amplify the voices of some of its Indigenous inductees. Last year the Calgary-based hall launched its We Will Do Better project. The goal of this digital, storytelling campaign was to bring awareness to the role racism played during the…
By Nick Pearce, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter A University of Saskatchewan scientist sees a future where grocery bags come from pulse seeds. Dr. Yongfeng Ai has received $2.5 million through the Canadian Agricultural Partnership to spur research aiming to draw more value from plants like peas, fava beans, lentils and chickpeas. Ai spoke to the StarPhoenix about how his research works on…
By Rochelle Baker, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter For weeks at a time, crews have been scouring remote sections of the West Coast — digging out massive fishing nets, hauling lines, tossing thousand of buoys and shifting mountains of Styrofoam to try to make a dent in the ocean refuse finding its way onto B.C.’s wildest shores. A shocking 210 tonnes of flotsam…
