Increasing funding for B.C. Parks should be a priority for political leaders this election after a busy summer exposed the consequences of years of neglect, some outdoor advocates say.Campers at the overflow tenting area at Watersprite Lake, near Squamish, B.C. The area was overcrowded during the summer because day passes were required for nearby Elfin…
This article was created in partnership with the National Geographic Society. In December 2018, Great Britain’s Royal Statistical Society named the core fact in this story—that only about nine percent of all plastic ever made has likely been recycled— its statistic of the year. Mass production of plastics, which began just six decades ago, has…
There are few people, fewer moments of applause and zero campaign handshakes or hugs, but the in-person events B.C.’s political leaders are holding are still vitally important for getting a read on the priorities of each party. Two of B.C.’s three party leaders were in Maple Ridge on Thursday: NDP Leader John Horgan, centre, and Liberal…
It was a comfortable looking home in a high-risk location, on Stringtown Road in the wooded hills south of Lake Oroville—a brown wood house with a stone chimney and big picture windows facing the forest. The pleasantly cluttered garden had tomato plants, a glass flamingo, and an abalone shell. It was here that a Cal…
After weeks of speculation, B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan has made official the worst-kept secret in the province: British Columbians are heading to the polls. Leader of the B.C. NDP John Horgan, centre, B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson, left, and B.C. Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau are headed for a snap election on Oct. 24. (CBC)After weeks of speculation,…
The last stop B.C. NDP Leader John Horgan made during the 2017 election campaign was on the Surrey side of the Port Mann Bridge, where he held a sign that said, “End tolls, vote NDP,” while he waved at drivers.B.C. NDP leader John Horgan makes his final stop of the 2017 election campaign on the…
At 11 a.m. on Friday, September 18, Tropical Depression 21 became Tropical Storm Wilfred. When another tropical storm formed near Portugal later that same day, it was labeled with the first letter of the Greek alphabet: Alpha. When yet another tempest formed in the afternoon in the western Gulf of Mexico, it was named Beta.…
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The stones didn’t give up their secrets easily. For decades, villagers in the dust-blown hills of China’s Loess Plateau believed that the crumbling rock walls near their homes were part of the Great Wall. It made sense. Remnants of the ancient barrier zigzag through this arid region inside the northern loop of the Yellow River,…
Today the squawks, shrieks, and whistles of parrots reverberate through the rainforest of Puerto Rico. But a few decades ago, these sounds almost disappeared. Deforestation had taken its toll on Puerto Rican parrots. Before European colonization in the 1500s, their population was estimated at a million. By the 1970s, as few as 13 Puerto Rican…