Vancouver changes zoning to allow duplexes across city, Seattle University divests from fossil fuels, Oregon test scores are still low, protecting clean-up workers at Hanford, Buddhist ceremony brings together tragedy victims, Victoria writer Esi Edugyan on Booker prize shortlist, and a poem by Maya Jewell Zeller.
An essay on Vancouver's expensive housing by Chelene Knight, economic benefits of wildfire, UW expansion raises transit concerns, why is abortion on the OR ballot?, building a Cascadia innovation corridor, can Oregon's sand dunes be saved?, what does marriage mean in 2018?, and an exhibition of work by Vancouver artist Anna Wong.
Poet and memoirist Chelene Knight reflects on growing up in Vancouver, and comes to terms with the fact she'll probably never own a home there as prices continue to skyrocket. A lyrical examination of what's lost as cities confront gentrification.
A Cascadia poetry retreat, US & Canada in talks to protect Cascadia salmon, BC wildfire tornado video goes viral, Vancouver harm reduction site faces closure, coastal waters lack oxygen, celebrating the Seattle Storm's third championship, and fiction by Portland writer Nicole Calande.
New fiction from Matt Briggs at Cascadia Magazine, what would it cost to fix homelessness in Seattle?,Teacher strikes end, Canadian government ponders next moves on BC pipeline, a real life hermit on Vancouver Island, the Western nostalgia of the Pendleton Round-Up, and poetry by Seattle's Rob Arnold.
Cascadia Magazine original fiction: "Interloper" by Matt Briggs; Vancouver housing is VERY expensive, orca J50 likely dead, the moral case for a carbon fee, fewer arrests for drug users, connecting photographers and prisoners, a poem by Shankar Narayan and a serialized novel by Spokane's Samuel Ligon.
In this short story by Matt Briggs, a man living in his Honda Accord appears outside the home of Maureen Hough, a teenager whose father works a blue-collar job and pays a mortgage on a home not far from Pacific Highway South. A timely story as Seattle faces a critical housing crisis it can't ignore.
How science and art can help change us, Vision Vancouver candidate drops from mayor's race, could new anti-trust strategy hit Amazon?, human costs of wildfires, scrub jays are invading Seattle, what is Burt Reynolds doing on a Tlingit paddle, and a new documentary about Ursula K. Le Guin.
What are all those yellow stakes about? Kayakers gather to call for removal of Snake River dams, Vancouver's wide-open election, how to spend $240K in Seattle, bigleaf maples are dying and no one knows why, a Portland author on her open marriage, and poetry by Michael Schmeltzer.
Court case aims to halt Site C dam in British Columbia, new political party target rural BC, the strange story of Oregon's wooden money, are their too many harbor seals in the Salish Sea?, Oregon's first black-owned winery, and two Seattle choreographers confront the process of grief.
