Fairy Creek

• Second judge to take B.C. old-growth logging protesters’ case

  A judge hearing a request to stay proceedings against people arrested at old-growth protests on Vancouver Island says he wants another judge to consider it with "fresh eyes."

  Environment

  Feb 23, 2022
  
• Snow, cat food and hope: How a person missing in the B.C. wilderness survived 74 days

  It took them about 15 hours to walk to the top of the Caycuse Road when they finally decided they had to try and walk to find help.

  Canada

  Feb 11, 2022
  
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• B.C. lawyer for Crown says stay application in old-growth logging case is flawed

  The RCMP have arrested people for allegedly violating an injunction against blockades in the Fairy Creek area of Vancouver Island.

  Environment

  Feb 10, 2022
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• 37-year-old person missing for almost 3 months found on Vancouver Island logging road

  RCMP would not confirm the identity of the person Wednesday evening and said officers are working to determine more specific details about their experience.

  Environment

  Feb 9, 2022
• B.C. court ruling is likely bad news for environmental protesters

  The three higher judges extended the injunction until at least September, after concluding the lower court judge had made numerous errors.

  Commentary

  Feb 3, 2022
• B.C.’s top court extends old-growth logging protest injunction to next fall

  More than 1,100 people have been arrested while protesting old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek area near Port Renfrew, about 110 kilometres west of Victoria.

  Environment

  Jan 26, 2022
• RCMP has spent $6.8M so far enforcing Fairy Creek injunction, docs show

  The RCMP has spent more than $6.8 million enforcing a court injunction against anti-logging protesters camped out at the Fairy Creek in B.C.

  Environment

  Dec 20, 2021
• Not heard from in weeks, police still search for two missing Fairy Creek advocates

  Gerald 'Smiley' Kearney was reported missing on Oct. 21, and Kevin 'Bear' Henry last spoke to family on Nov. 27, and was reported missing on Dec. 11.. 

  Crime

  Dec 15, 2021
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• Indigenous leaders concerned over B.C.’s old-growth deferral process

  Retired judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond said the government's actions aren't consistent with free, prior and informed consent.

  Environment

  Dec 1, 2021
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• B.C. MLA slams Leonardo DiCaprio for ‘misinformed’ support of pipeline opposition

  "You have no idea what you're talking about," Ellis Ross, B.C. Liberal MLA for Skeena, told Leonardo DiCaprio on Twitter.

  Politics

  Nov 29, 2021