Children

40 Years of the Quadra Children’s Centre: The Next Generation

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Originally published in the Bird’s Eye

This is our third article of the trilogy marking 40 years of the Quadra Children’s Centre (QCC). What follows is where it’s going, what it needs to get there — and what it has always had in abundance.

Forty years ago, a small group of women said yes to something hard because it needed doing and they loved their community. That hasn’t changed. The names have rotated. The work has evolved. But the Centre has been held, in every era, by warm, vibrant, deeply caring people — mostly women, many of them mothers themselves — who showed up because generations of children were counting on it. That thread of stewardship runs unbroken from 1985 to today.

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Indigenous Nations, Politics

Vancouver sets new standard for urban Indigenous engagement

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By Nicolas Crier, Megaphone Magazine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter

The City of Vancouver is known for being progressive in many ways. One of those ways is through the development and implementation of a new Urban Indigenous Engagement Framework.

The guidelines are the first of their kind adopted by a municipality, establishing a formal and mandatory process for the city to engage on issues with urban Indigenous communities — including First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

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Energy

Majority of Albertans back wind and solar, but investors continue to face hostile business environment

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By David Pickup and WIll Noel , News release from the Pembina Institute.

CALGARY — Two thirds of Albertans want to see more renewable energy projects built near where they live, and think the province should be doing more to encourage wind and solar development, according to new polling commissioned by the Pembina Institute. 

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Arts

Last Weekend of the 2026 Members Show

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By Christann Kennedy, Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery

The Old Schoolhouse Art Gallery is special. For more than 20 years it has served as a place for artists and art enthusiasts to gather, share new work, and build bonds of community around the desire to make, think, and talk about art. The 2026 Members Show, currently on exhibit at the Gallery, is a beautiful example of this art community in action.

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Cost of Climate Change, Rivers & Oceans

50 years of data reveals true extent of climate change impacts on kelp forests

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Originally published on UVic News

New research from the University of Victoria (UVic) has found that some kelp forests around Vancouver Island were disappearing far earlier than scientists previously thought, highlighting that climate change has been altering our ecosystems long before most people were aware anything was wrong.

“Most research has focused on recent kelp forest losses resulting from well-known marine heatwaves, like the record-breaking ‘Blob’ heatwave that hit our coast a decade ago,” says Brian Timmer, a UVic PhD student, National Geographic Explorer and lead author of the study, recently published in Ecological Applications.

“These recent changes to our kelp forests have been intense. But our research shows that some areas of the BC coast have been warming much faster than the global average, and associated kelp declines began decades ago. We’ve been underestimating the magnitude of ocean-warming impacts for years.” —Chris Neufeld, co-author and senior aquatic ecology at LGL Limited

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