Canada’s proposed changes to Plant Breeders’ Rights regulations threaten farmers’ ability to save seed, increasing corporate control.

Dorothy Smith, survivor of residential school, fights for Indigenous rights, teaching, healing, and protecting her nation’s ...

The last time the nuclear industry got its way in Ontario, the province’s erstwhile publicly-owned electrical utility, Ontario Hydro, spent over two decades building 20 nuclear reactors. It was a ...

Salmon people are celebrating success and renewing their commitment to restore historic salmon runs in the headwaters of one of the world’s greatest rivers, the Columbia. The Columbia River flows into ...

A new force for climate action has taken root this past summer in the Comox Valley: the Youth Climate Corps British Columbia. As part of the broader YCCBC program, young people aged 17-30 work ...

Ten years ago, I found myself in Scotland looking in awe at the valley of Glen Coe. The valley looms above you, rising in a great sweep like an earthen tide. A wave of reds, browns, and greens, and ...

When times turn dark, hope is as resolute as a salmon pushing upstream, fighting the odds with every stroke. This issue carries stories of purposeful action flowing from grit and love of the world, in ...

The steep flanks of Tsitika Mountain on northern Vancouver Island are scarred with clearcuts and slash piles almost to the boundary of the Tsitika Mountain and Robson Bight ecological reserves. When ...

Environmental groups and First Nations are celebrating a “decisive” turning point in the battle to protect the ecology of Baynes Sound, 100 km north of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. It took years of ...

Western Canada’s award-winning environmental news magazine. The Watershed Sentinel has been the voice of the grassroots environmental movement in BC (and beyond) for over 25 years. When environmental ...

Western Canada’s award-winning environmental news magazine. The Watershed Sentinel has been the voice of the grassroots environmental movement in BC (and beyond) for over 25 years. When environmental ...