Shhh… the orcas are listening

The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is aiming to reduce ship noise that’s harming endangered killer whales (orcas) by using sound-quieting machines, in an initiative it hopes to expand across the country.

Port researchers have been studying noise reduction for several … Read More

Artwork revealed for Salish class ferries

The artwork for the last of three Salish Class vessels commissioned by BC Ferries has been revealed.

Musqueam artist Thomas Cannell’s work for the Salish Raven was revealed at the nation’s cultural centre on Feb. 9. All three new ferries … Read More

It may still be winter, but it’s time to think farming

Registration is open until Feb. 15 for students in a new season of growing at the Tsawwassen First Nation Farm School.

It is a unique collaboration between the First Nation and the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at Kwantlen Polytechnic … Read More

Tla’amin jobs, support for new shellfish plant

A land-based shellfish hatchery on the Sunshine Coast has received the thumbs-up from Tla’amin First Nation.

Workers from Tla’amin have been employed at the Hummingbird Cove hatchery and research station near Saltery Bay over the past two years. And the … Read More

Aboriginal ice tourney on the Island this spring

About 450 players, coaches and team staff will be coming to Cowichan for the National Aboriginal Hockey Championships from May 1-6.

The tourney features elite midget-age male and female Aboriginal hockey players from across Canada to compete and celebrate cultural … Read More

Park plan rejected, but options exist

A request from Snaw-naw-as First Nation leaders to have part of their unceded territory turned into a national park has been rejected by the land’s legal owners.

The chief and council had requested to have a section of Nanoose Bay … Read More

VIU offers plant study from two viewpoints

A traditional knowledge keeper and a biology professor have joined forces to teach two different ways of learning and knowing science at Vancouver Island University’s Cowichan campus.

Exploring plants and the environment from both Indigenous and Western viewpoints will be … Read More

Almost $50 million coming to Snuneymuxw

Snuneymuxw First Nation is awaiting the arrival of nearly $50 million from Canada later this year.

Snuneymuxw has created the Thlap’qwum Community Settlement Trust to administer funds that will come from 98.1% of Snuneymuxw votes saying ‘Yes’ to the largest … Read More

What does reconciliation mean to you?

In the last issue of the Sentinel, we featured content from Secret Path, a multimedia project led by Gord Downie, front man of the band Tragically Hip.

It tells the story of 12-year-old Chanie Wenjack, who died in 1966 as … Read More

Pipeline or pipedream? Questions remain as BC election draws near

By Cara McKenna

The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, now approved by Canada and BC, has Indigenous leaders, local governments and environmentalists threatening to fight the project to the bitter end.

Kinder Morgan’s $6.8 billion expansion of the pipeline will nearly … Read More