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Water's Edge: A tour of Metro Vancouver from the oceanfront
We think we know our oceanfront. We sunbathe at English Bay, jog the Stanley Park seawall and drive high above Howe Sound, casting affectionate glances at one of the most scenic landscapes in Canada....
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Water's Edge: Paddling Metro Vancouver's scenic shores
One does not embark on a 10-day paddling trip without considering those who went before. First Nations plied these waters for millennia in dugout cedar canoes described by the Bill Reid Centre at Simon...
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Water's Edge: Industry versus nature in Canada's busiest port
When we look out at the craggy industrial face of the Port of Vancouver, we see freighters from around the world, piles of sulphur and coal, grain unloaded from rail cars into silos, commercial float...
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Water's Edge: Park life and sulphur piles in Burrard Inlet, where homes...
For 15 minutes I pinball around the offices of the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation — “People of the Inlet” — until a decision is made allowing me to launch my kayak from a small rocky beach next to the...
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Water's Edge: A fresh look at Vancouver's postcard locations
It is a calm sunny morning at Third Beach in Stanley Park and not even an introduced eastern grey squirrel is bouncing around for free peanuts. About the only thing stirring in the corner parking lot...
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BC Hydro issued enforcement order for run-off, sediments from Site C
BC Hydro has received a provincial enforcement order to immediately control run-off water and sediments from ongoing construction of its Site C dam project in the Peace River. A...
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Water's Edge: Mud, marsh and 'menace' seals from Wreck Beach to Steveston
I awake to the sound of a gull and crows scrounging through my gear for food. The gull thinks it has something, but it’s just a plastic baggie containing my pocket matches. “Get out of here,” I scream....
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Global experts support proposed B.C. cave protection bill
Karst experts from around the world are lending support to an NDP private member’s bill designed to protect B.C.’s fragile and extensive cave systems from damage by individuals and corporations such as...
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B.C. birds in decline: 5 to watch
Publication of the BC Breeding Bird Atlas is raising alarms about the decline of several species across the province. The atlas is one of the largest citizen-science initiatives in B.C. history. More...
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Water's Edge: Like a flea among elephants at Roberts Bank
If we just left things alone, Canoe Pass wouldn’t be the quiet little backwater that it is, all but forgotten next to the other three arms of the Fraser River. That’s not how it works on the industrial...
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Water's Edge: Border hopping by boat exposes more than cheap gas and milk
There is no line in the sand marking the international boundary on the oceanfront at Point Roberts. A marker offshore officially indicates the border, but on the shoreline the forested cliffs and...
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Pacific angel shark documented for first time in B.C. waters
Mark Cantwell had anticipated another enjoyable day of free-dive snorkelling off Victoria’s Clover Point, photographing sea urchins and other common marine life. What the Environment Canada policy...
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Water's Edge: Trainspotting and people watching in South Surrey and White Rock
Surrey’s answer to West Vancouver’s Marine Drive lies up on a bluff, a stretch of extravagant homes on expansive properties tucked away among the natural forest along Crescent Road. Down below, on the...
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Water's Edge: Industry versus nature in Canada's busiest port
When we look out at the craggy industrial face of the Port of Vancouver, we see freighters from around the world, piles of sulphur and coal, grain unloaded from rail cars into silos, commercial float...
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Video: Containing burning forest fires
Ryan Chapman, operations manager for the BC Wildfire Service discusses how they try to control the burn of a forest fire on Beatton Airport Road near Fort St. John.
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Government orders wildlife rehabber to collar controversial bear cubs
The B.C. government has ordered a wildlife rehabilitation centre to put GPS collars on two controversial black bear cubs spared death by a conservation officer last year to find out if they get...
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Ottawa proposes that commercial floatplane passengers and crew wear life vests
The federal government is recommending long-awaited regulations that would require all passengers and crew on commercial floatplanes to wear inflatable life vests during flights over water. Transport...
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Vancouver Airport scares record one million birds away from runways for safety
Vancouver International Airport scared a record more than one million birds away from runways last year in a ramped-up effort to reduce the number of times airplanes hit birds. The airport moved almost...
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Harbour seals in Strait of Georgia healthier than Puget Sound
Levels of two “persistent organic pollutants” in harbour seals have declined dramatically over the decades, but remain considerably higher in Washington state’s Puget Sound than in southern B.C....
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BC Hydro's Site C dam rises from the historic Peace River
Along the Peace River — More than two centuries ago, Rocky Mountain Fort bustled with activity as a North West Company fur-trading post at the edge of the world. In the 1790s, the first European...
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