Environmentalist protest use of timber from illegal loggers (Greenpeace)

Activists from Greenpeace and Quercus today have taken action to close the main gate of Vicaima near Porto in protest at the company's continued use of timber from illegal and destructive logging from the world's ancient forests. At 7am this morning 10 activists blockaded the...

Ottawa funds B.C. pine beetle fight

Government to spend $100-million to battle epidemic

Haida protest hits Queen Charlottes

Aboriginals complain they weren't consulted about transfer of tree-farm licence

Haida blockades roads to protest transfer of Weyerhaeuser timber rights (Cana...

PORT CLEMENTS, B.C. (CP) - The Haida Nation has set up a number of blockades around the Queen Charlotte Islands to protest the transfer of Weyerhaeuser's tree-farm licence to Brascan, complaining they weren't properly consulted by the B.C. government.

Scientists research B.C. waters after thousands of quakes across ocean floor ...

Canadian Press - VANCOUVER (CP) - Intense earthquake activity on the ocean floor off the coast of southern Vancouver Island has scientists scrambling to be the first to catch a glimpse of two tectonic plates pulling apart.

Woman dies at scene after crash of helicopter in Fraser Valley (Canadian Press)

Canadian Press - ABBOTSFORD, B.C. (CP) - A helicopter crashed Sunday trying to take off in a rural part of the Fraser Valley and a woman was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Community Forum: The Coming Cascadia Quake

By the time that geophysicist and seismologist Lori Dengler walked to the podium, the room was completely silent. Her task was to describe what the next Cascadia earthquake probably will be like, but "our point here is not to terrify you. In fact, I fully expect to survive...

Report: Al Qaeda-linked Web site based in Canada

I wrote about this website over a year ago. From AP, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:KELOWNA, British Columbia (AP) -- A Web site with links to al Qaeda is operating through a server in western Canada, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Technology Review magazine's...

Snow, treacherous conditions close main Vancouver Island highway

NANAIMO, B.C. ( CP) -- The main highway linking north and south Vancouver Island was closed on Sunday due to heavy snow and 'extremely treacherous' driving conditions.

Polar Bear Swim 2005

According to Vancouver Board of Parks and Recreation, "Vancouver Polar Bear Swim Club is one of the largest and oldest Polar Bear Clubs in the world. Its first initial swim was in 1920 when a small number of hardy swimmers took the plunge into...