Blackfish, wild: 100 days with sacred whales

Blackfish, wild: 100 days with sacred whales

I could hear breathing in the charcoal dark as silent bodies passed the shoreline; huge lungs, in huge animals, blow salty ocean spray into the night. It was my first of almost a hundred nights at an observation outcamp in Johnstone Strait, a channel along the North...
Beneath the Great Bear Rainforest

Beneath the Great Bear Rainforest

For the better part of four years, I have been held captive by the area on the north-central coast of British Columbia, dubbed The Great Bear Rainforest by environmentalists in the 1990s. It is an immensely powerful global icon of interchange between terrestrial and...

Goldcorp’s Midas touch turns UVic into accomplice

Goldcorp’s donation of half a million dollars to UVic’s Peter B. Gustavson School of Business, which UVic says will foster “social and sustainable innovation,” should do more than raise your hackles. It should send your irony-spidey senses off the radar....