A female grizzly bear and two cubs could possibly herald the coming of a grizzly population to Vancouver Island, which hasn’t had the bears since the last ice age.
🐋🕊🐕 We’re endlessly fascinated by local critters, big and small. And there are always more to learn about from our readers’ backyards. So Tyee readers, what’s your favourite local critter?
Despite the rising number of COVID cases, overwhelmed hospitals and the tremendous long-term toll on individuals, prevention efforts have been abandoned. Andrew Nikiforuk writes. image
#Exclusive: On the heels of the last significant police action on #Wetsuweten territory, B.C. quietly embarked on a process to “streamline” its response to what it saw as a rising wave of protests across the province. @npub1t9l5...3fa2 reports.
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“Western voters in recent weeks have demonstrated they’re exhausted, angry and frustrated with incumbents — but they’ve also indicated that when offered a choice between far-right ideology and policies that address struggles, they’ll opt for the latter.”
The scalable model keeps thousands of bicycles out of landfills every year, and helps cyclists fix their rides on the cheap. 🚲 image
For nearly six days, water was accumulating behind a 30-metre-high debris accumulation deposited by a massive landslide across Chilcotin River. The river reduced to a trickle. But on Monday, the B.C. Interior finally got the alert they were waiting for.
Apparently Yesenia from Russia, Fay from England and Belle from France who has no Twitter followers are “northern Ontarios” “still buzzing” from Pierre Poilievre’s rally in Kirkland Lake! Steve Burgess on whether PP is winning the battle of the bots.
As fellow animals, our ancestors took time to marvel at the sheer intensity of the lives of their sisters and brothers. Now we just call them species. And we dutifully count their disappearance like accountants. Andrew Nikiforuk writes. image