The overwhelming rejection in a referendum on giving Indigenous groups a constitutional voice has many looking for ways to keep up the fight for recognition and reconcilation

Dennis’s personal recovery from addiction’s wreckage parallels his community’s emergence from the chaos of its own night of terror generations ago.

Quewezance sisters and Indigenous elders invited the Star on parts of a journey laden with emotion and also risk. They hope that sharing their anguish and resolve will prompt the release of unjustly imprisoned Indigenous women.

The Quewezance sisters have many things to get done and navigate for themselves, but beyond that, ‘I want to use my freedom to help other women suffering,’ said Odelia.

Quewezance, convicted with her sister in a killing her cousin confessed to, may be on the cusp of freedom. Why a visit to her home stirred old emotions.

More than 2,000 hectares of Haida Gwaii forests are clear cut every year forcing the ‘cedar people’ to travel hours to find ancient giants for their spiritual traditions

Hwiemtun cleanses collective trauma through sweat-lodge ceremonies

I have seen Angela Davison, known as Rainbow Eyes, transform from a quiet fugitive to a transformational leader.

Once an addict herself, Millie Modeste says this is “what I was meant to do” as deaths from toxic drugs take more lives in B.C. than all other unnatural causes.

Singer-songwriter Logan Staats was performing at the Wet’suwet’en blockade in northern British Columbia in November when a swarm of RCMP officers grabbed his hair, slammed his face on the ground, jumped on top of him and arrested him, he said.

Tim Kulchyski says salmon used to be so plentiful off Vancouver Island that they would shake his Cowichan ancestors’ dugout canoes as they collided in the waters of the Salish Sea.

In the twilight hours at the busy intersection of Victoria’s Douglas and Johnson streets, Grandma Losah looks on as her protest group halts traffic in both directions with their Save Old Growth signs.

Joe Milukshuk hardly spoke or slept in the first days he stayed at our home in Toronto in 2018. The thoughtful 17-year-old Inuit boy from Kugluktuk, an isolated Nunavut hamlet on the shores of the Arctic Ocean, had never before seen a tall tree, or an elevator, or a fridge full of fresh food. The big city was overwhelming at first.

Bear Henry, a two-spirited Fairy Creek old-growth logging protester, missing for more than 10 weeks, has been found.

Bear Henry, a two-spirited Fairy Creek old-growth logging protester, has told loved ones they “survived on baked beans and peanut butter and jam” until their food ran out and then resorted to melting snow to drink, during a 74-day odyssey in the woods.

On Wednesday, the BC Supreme Court will review a request to drop charges against more than 300 Fairy Creek old-growth protesters. The proceeding is an application by the Crown to dismiss a Jan. 5 defence application for a stay of proceedings due to a pattern of misconduct by the RCMP.

PORT-RENFREW, B.C. Family and friends of an Indigenous protester missing for seven weeks in the woods near a logging blockade on Vancouver Island lashed out Saturday at a logging company’s security for hampering their increasingly frantic search.

Polar Bear pulls up his scarf to hide his face and paces to keep warm. The 30-year-old protester has just hiked down to Fairy Creek headquarters from a stint watching over the trees in the old-growth forest. It has been raining and snowing for days and the drifts are knee-deep on the mountain near the protestors’ headquarters, a rough assembly of tents, tarps and vehicles abutting a barrier to local logging roads.

North Saanich, B.C.—Larry George is working flat out helping his Cowichan Tribes community on Vancouver Island cope with devastating flood damage. The Cowichan River, heartbeat of the First Nations community, breeched its banks after heavy rain this month, forcing many families from their homes.