Western Canada’s award-winning environmental news magazine. The Watershed Sentinel has been the voice of the grassroots environmental movement in BC (and beyond) for over 25 years. When environmental ...

With the help of the University of Victoria, Grandson of Ma’amtagila Hereditary Chief Basil Ambers, Xa’nalas Dakota Smith, has been working alongside a team of Ma’amtagila descendants to rebuild a ...

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technology represents the fossil fuel industry’s last stand. Hawking expensive, speculative technology to suck CO2 out of the air and store it ...

The caldera of an extinct volcano has been a garden of medicines and foods for the Numu/Nuwu (Northern Paiute) and Newe (Western Shoshone) peoples and their non-human kin since time immemorial. They ...

On a forestry road north of Kispiox, Gitxsan land protectors have set up a blockade to protest the Prince Rupert Gas Terminal pipeline (PRGT) on their laxyip (homelands). Their efforts reflect a ...

Danielle Smith has long claimed that federal government policies under ten years of Liberal rule have damaged Alberta’s oil and gas industry by reducing investment, limiting market access, and ...

Thousands of hectares of Canadian forest are sprayed every year with glyphosate, a weed-killing agent, for the sole purpose of killing off grasses, shrubs, and deciduous trees. Yes, really. It sounds ...

In a significant victory in the fight against toxics, environmental and health groups in Canada have successfully challenged the federal government’s renewal of a glyphosate product in court. In a ...

Production of the world’s first genetically engineered food animal, a GE salmon, ended in 2024 after twenty years of protest in Canada. In 2012, the introduction of the GE “Enviropig” was stopped ...

The steep flanks of Tsitika Mountain on northern Vancouver Island are scarred with clearcuts and slash piles almost to the boundary of the Tsitika Mountain and Robson Bight ecological reserves. When ...

Indigenous and non-Indigenous environmentalists have denounced the practice of aerial herbicide spraying on forestlands for decades. This year, Indigenous groups in Northern Ontario have announced a ...

After decades of protests, environmental violations, government fines, and civil claims, it’s the end of an era. Crofton’s embattled pulp mill is shutting down after 68 years, leaving 350 workers ...