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British Columbia

An image of a professional tree planter hard at work in British Colombia.
Environment
Professional tree planting: ‘It’s a combination between industrial labor and high-intensity sport’
A fire medic holds a box containing naloxone hydrochloride which is carried in all their department's emergency response vehicles, in Akron, Ohio
Health & Medicine
With rising overdoses, British Columbia expands experimental prescription initiative
Clear-cut forest near Eugene, Oregon
Environment
‘Finding the Mother Tree’ explores the intricate communication networks within a forest
Lieutenant-General Bacha Debele is show standing at a podium with his hand raised in soft focus with a guard in military fatigues is shown in focus and holding a large rifle.
Top of The World
A ‘sick joke’: Tigrayan forces reject ceasefire in Ethiopia’s embattled region
A young girl is shown leaning up against a stone column spraying a stream of water.
Environment
Unprecedented: Northwest heat wave builds, records fall
Flowers, children's shoes and other items rest at a memorial
Human rights
Gruesome boarding school discovery forces Canada to reckon with its cultural genocide history
A group of Sinixt tribal members stand together near a mound and conduct a ceremony.
Justice
Canada’s highest court rules in favor of Sinixt tribal rights at heart of hunting case
A ferry moves through British Colombia waters.
COVID-19
COVID-19 racial stats: A ‘double-edged sword’ for some marginalized groups in Canada
Coastal wolves making their way along the beach in British Columbia.
Environment
Images of Canada’s coastal wolves help promote ocean conservation efforts
The Supreme Court of Canada is seen in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Nov. 4, 2019.
Justice
Do US-living descendants of tribes in Canada have rights north of the border?
Britain's Prince William and Catherine, duchess of Cambridge, tour in a canoe during a visit to Haida Gwaii in Skidegate, British Columbia, Canada, Sept. 30, 2016.
Lifestyle & Belief
Indigenous groups in Canada fight to stay closed as restrictions ease
A front line worker from Portland Hotel Society healthcare checks on clients waiting to obtain a "safe supply" of narcotic alternatives, provided by the local health unit to combat overdoses due to poisonous additives and to help supports addicts and home
British Columbia gets creative to combat drug overdose crisis amid coronavirus
firefighters
This summer, Canada’s land of ice was on fire
an overdose naloxone kit in a woman's hands
Health & Medicine
In Vancouver, people who use drugs are supervising injections and reversing overdoses
Rick Desautel, flanked by his daughter and his wife, Linda (right), celebrates his acquittal of illegal hunting charges outside the provincial courthouse in Nelson, British Columbia, in March 2017.
Justice
Canada says the Sinixt tribe is extinct. The tribe’s American descendants disagree.
Protestors hold up signs at a rally against a proposed Kinder Morgan oil pipeline expansion on Burnaby Mountain in 2014 in British Columbia. In late May, the Canadian government announced it would fund an expansion project for the Kinder Morgan Trans Moun
With pipeline decision, Canada’s Trudeau draws ire of environmental supporters
"Water is Life"
Environment
In Canada, a pipeline environmental engineer protests her former company’s tar sands plan
Medium close up of Mo Korchinski sitting in a coffee shop.
Justice
Many women come out of prison with almost nothing. This woman helps them through the first 72 hours.
You won't find a lot of wild salmon on menus or in your supermarket anymore, but the Namgis First Nation's group in British Columbia hopes you'll find their tank-farmed Kuterra salmon the next best thing.
Jobs
This Canadian First Nations group wants you to buy salmon raised on land
A grizzly feeds on dead salmon at the end of their spawning run in a river in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest. Hunting grizzlies was banned throughout the vast region late last year.
Environment
British Columbia has a flourishing grizzly bear tourism industry
Colorado River
Justice
Environmental lawyers seek legal rights for the natural world
Model
Arts
These photos show the strength and beauty of aboriginal cultures in Canada
A shepherd dog tending a herd of sheep outside Tbilisi, Georgia.
Environment
Hero sheepdogs protect flock for 20 days in a Canadian wildfire
Oil flows through pipes to the Westridge Marine near Vancouver, BC. A second, much larger pipeline here is part of Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau's plan to increase exports of oil from Alberta's tar sands region. Opponents say that would increase
Environment
This Canadian oil pipeline could cause the next great controversy
Members of the Girl Guides of Canada. Girl Guides of Canada via Flickr
Culture
Canadian schools and Girl Guides are nixing their trips to the US
DNA
Health
Modern-day tribes still carry traces of colonial devastation in their DNA
Environment
Information overload existed for millennia says historian
Bill Moore and Judith Fearing are members of Nelson Friends of Refugees. They've raised money and secured an apartment for a family of Syrian refugees. All they need now are the refugees. But they're still waiting.
Conflict
Some Canadians really want to sponsor Syrian refugees. Turns out it’s harder than they thought.
Canada's Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, delivers a formal apology for the Komagata Maru incident in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, May 18th 2016.
Culture
What Trudeau’s Komagata Maru apology means to a descendant of one of the ship’s passengers
Caribou on a winter landscape in British Columbia
Environment
In British Columbia, the government has begun killing wolves in order to save the caribou
A white Spirit bear in the Great Bear Rainforest — the only place on Earth where these bears can be found.
Environment
A new agreement protects most of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest from logging
Alaskan salmon in Bristol Bay, Alaska
Environment
Will Canada’s new mines hurt Alaska’s salmon?
Orphaned bear cubs Jordan and Athena at the North Island Wildlife Recovery Association, Port Hardy, British Columbia.
Environment
He refused to kill these adorable bear cubs. Now his job is on the line.
A sampling of the wonderfully sweet butter tarts baked fresh daily at Leah's Bakery in Toronto.
Food
Is the butter tart the most Canadian of sweet treats? Not so fast
The border between Stewart, British Columbia and Hyder, Alaska as seen from the Canadian side.
Business
Canada plans to limit the hours of a border crossing that divides US village, Canadian town
Miss P, a 15-inch Beagle who won "Best in Show," is run during the final judging at the 139th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show at Madison Square Garden on February 17, 2015.
Lifestyle
A Canadian beagle takes the top prize at America’s biggest dog show
A small kit of supplies containing syringes, bandaids and antiseptic pads waits to be used by a drug addict inside a safe injection site on Vancouver, British Columbia's eastside August 23, 2006. Nearly a decade later, the city will be offering free heroi
Health
Vancouver combats heroin by giving its addicts the best smack in the world
Forever 21 sweater (L) Granted Clothing sweater (R)
Business
A Canadian sweater company says Forever 21 is ripping off its designs
An unmanned Antares rocket is seen exploding seconds after liftoff from a commercial launch pad in this still image from NASA video at Wallops Island, Virginia, on October 28, 2014.
Science
These kids watched their science project disappear in the Antares rocket explosion
Fashioning Cancer
Lifestyle
A Canadian prof designs gowns inspired by cancer cells
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California April 12, 2014
Culture
It’s not OK to wear a Native American headdress at this Canadian music festival
Alberta tar sands
Environment
Canada approves a new plan for a pipeline to bring oil from Alberta’s tar sands to British Columbia
Gordon Grdina with Haram's drummer Kenton Loewen
Arts, Culture & Media
What’s ‘forbidden’ about this avant-Arabic ensemble from Vancouver?
Sports
Why are Canadians cheering for the Seahawks to win the Super Bowl?
Dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, one of three current and former sex workers who initiated a challenge to Canada's prostitution laws, reacts at the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa December 20, 2013.
Conflict & Justice
Safe Sex? Canada’s Supreme Court strikes down laws banning prostitution for reasons of safety
Environment
When it comes to climate, California pursues its own foreign policy
Business, Economics and Jobs
Irish and out of luck? Come to Canada, says the construction industry
Environment
British Columbia rejects oil pipeline, casting Keystone in new light
Environment
How governments can create policies that promote happiness
Environment
Secret of rare ‘spirit bear’ revealed by First Nation community
Environment
Oil pipeline from Canada could be election issue for Obama
Global Politics
Is China buying Canada’s politicians?
Environment
The psychology of climate inaction
Lifestyle & Belief
The origins of religion