WA senate passes ban on "bump stocks," does Portland's mayor want to clear homeless out of downtown?, navy fuel spill in Straight of Georgia, is eastern OR ready for the big Cascadia quake?, a new film exploring Cambodian Seattle in the 90s, & a review of a history of the Secwepemc people of BC.
Once a mining area, Cheam Lake Wetlands in British Columbia's Fraser River valley offers pleasant, easy hikes during all seasons. Within view of 2,100-meter Mount Cheam, the trails here wind through conifer forests, past vibrant wetland ecosystems, and offer great opportunities for bird-watching.
British Columbia's bold budget, Seattle offers free transit passes to high school students, trucking sea lions in Oregon to save steelhead, Oregon's Bitcoin mining gold rush, BC Indigenous writer Terese Mailhot on motherhood and inherited sorrow, and "Bunker" a poem by Azura Tyabji.
Gun control measures stall in WA legislature, Oregon may delay vote on part of carbon cap & trade bill, BC wine makers challenge Alberta ban, high-skilled immigrants in Seattle face new hurdles, an interview with Portland surrealist painter Elizabeth Malaska, and a poem at Poetry Northwest by Mia Kang.
Should oil & gas companies pay for climate impacts to BC? Portland to sue big pharma for misleading on opioids, is Vancouver progressive, conservative or something in between? Seattle band Caspar Babypants rocks the kiddie scene, and short fiction by Spokane author Shawn Vestal.
Bucking the trends, Seattle transit use is up, Oregon House passes bill to eliminate "boyfriend loophole" limiting gun purchases for domestic violence convicts, study shows ocean acidification less intense where seaweed is abundant, Portland's Willy Vlautin on heroes, and BC's most famous dog author.
BC pipeline sands oil a losing economic prospect, WA moves to ban salmon farms & death penalty, meth use on the rise in OR, the hidden sexual harassment crisis among farm workers, what's Donna Miscolta reading? And a poem by Alex Gallo-Brown.
Cascadia Magazine original story: short fiction by Seattle writer Donna Miscolta. Plus, BC continues to confront outrage over Colten Boushie case, a new group pushing for high-speed rail in Cascadia, will WA legislature ban cancer-causing foam, a sperm whale sighting, and un-natural motherhood by Leni Zumas.
"My mother never really read my sister’s diary – she only skimmed it, so that she got names and dates wrong. I know. Because I read it thoroughly, even made edits occasionally, inserting commas in my sister’s life." New short fiction by Seattle-based writer Donna Miscolta.
Cascadia Magazine original: meet the Indigenous activists fighting a pipeline across British Columbia. Plus: First Nations react to acquittal in Colten Boushie murder case, Seattle's hostile architecture against homeless, trying to save a rare lily in Oregon, & a brutally frank essay by BC's Terese Mailhot.
