Northern British Columbia's inland rainforest, a rare ecosystem with 1,000-year-old trees, is under threat from clear-cut logging. Activists are working to protect these relatively unknown forests, home to wildlife including endangered mountain caribou.
Residents of British Columbia's Peace Valley -- including members of the Saulteau First Nations -- are fighting the controversial Site C dam project, which would flood their land and alter the region's ecology. Alison Bate talks with families whose lives have been turned upside down by the project.
First Nations chief Ernest Alfred set off a battle to ban fish farms in British Columbia by occupying a tiny island in Broughton Archipelago. Indigenous activists claim the farms spread disease to wild salmon, and in June, the BC government announced future permits must meet First Nations approval.
Eden Robinson, a Haisla/Heiltsuk author from British Columbia, talks with poet Rachel Rose about her Trickster series of novels, her goofy sense of humor, forming a writing community among Indigenous writers, and her approach to crafting narrative and finding a compelling narrator.
First Nations activists are using an array of tactics to oppose KinderMorgan's proposed TransMountain pipeline across British Columbia. Using lawsuits, direct action, and construction of tiny homes in the pipeline's path, Cascadia's Indigenous nations are taking lessons from the Standing Rock protests in North Dakota.
