Author Archives: Bill Nation

The Watershed Salmon Watch Society is reporting an alarming increase in wild fish dying in B-C's open-net salmon farms. The society has released a report based on numbers from the fish farming industr...

Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says it's a good day for animals in Canada. The Vancouver Island M-P is celebrating that passage of a private member's bill she sponsored that bans keeping wha...

The federal government has announced its intention to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021, but a detailed plan is not ready yet. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement near Montreal....

On June 9, 2019 at approximately 2:30 a.m. the Comox Valley RCMP received a report of a possible shooting in Courtenay. Frontline officers were in the area quickly and started to gather evidence. The ...

Residents of Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and northeast B-C are being urged to conserve water as provincial officials say drought conditions have arrived earlier than usual. B-C issued a drought...

A B-C couple is setting off on a month-long West Coast hiking and kayaking expedition that retraces the passage Spanish explorers took in the late 1700s. Jacqueline Windh, a fellow of the Royal Canadi...

Thousands of Canadians gathered on a stretch of beach on the coast of Normandy, France, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, one of the most pivotal days of the Second World War. It was on Ju...

Federal Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson says testing will begin at British Columbia fish farm operations for strains of a virus that is harmful to farmed Atlantic salmon in Norway. He says the s...

A total of 137 B-C firefighters and wildfire specialists are on their way to Alberta today and tomorrow, to assist with several major fires threatening communities north of Edmonton. The 116 firefight...

The chief commissioner of the inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women says today they are holding up ``a mirror'' to Canada. Marion Buller made the remark at an emotional ceremony today mar...