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Islanders Lace Up for Youth and Wellness at the 5th Annual Haida Gwaii Sun Run

By Christine CunninghamThis past weekend, the annual Haida Gwaii Sun Run brought together around 30 island residents in a celebration of movement, community and support for local youth. What began...

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Mad as Hell

This was not the editorial I intended to write. I had planned to use this...

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LNG Milestone

Dear Editor: Your front page article titled “LNG Milestone Passes Haida Gwaii” paints a rosy...

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Teal Cedar Decision

Dear editor – Thank you for your front page coverage of the recent Supreme...

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NDP Candidate – Taylor Bachrach

Over a decade ago, First Nations led a diverse, province-wide movement to stop the...

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A Haida Gwaii kid’s journey to leading with heart

Growing up on Haida Gwaii, my youth and early twenties were defined by the freedom of nature—days spent on windswept beaches, climbing mossy mountains,...

Sign of the times?

Many years ago, a friend of mine wrote an open letter addressed to the desk vandals at the Chicago Public Library. It was 2003, the...

B.C. deserves better health care and real leadership

Our health care system is broken, and it’s time to fix it. I’m hearing this everywhere I go in North Coast and Haida Gwaii....

We need to keep taking action for the people of Haida Gwaii

My Haida name is Laanas and Haida Gwaii is my home. My mother is Lois Rullin, my grandparents were Dan and Vesta Helmer and...

Go and vote!

Fall is in the air. It's making noses cold, everything is all of a sudden pumpkin-spice flavoured or scented, and we get excited for...

Opinions, please

A wise man once said that if you annoy people and do stupid things on Haida Gwaii, life becomes very painful for you here. We...

Double standard on animal cruelty

A recent article about Tango the horse and a letter to the editor about “catch and release” fishing have, between them, highlighted the disturbing...

Literacy is a community cornerstone on Haida Gwaii

Communities around the globe commemorate International Literacy Day on Sept. 8. This day reaffirms the pivotal role of literacy in building sustainable societies. Since its...

Deal with catch-and-release to restore fisheries

Dear Editor, I have been living in Masset for about 60 years and from day one, this community has always been considered a commercial fishing...

The future is disabled, but it doesn’t need to be a dystopia

In Machine, a science-fiction novel by Elizabeth Bear, the main character Llyn is a space-faring trauma doctor and rescue specialist who happens to live...

Seeing the forest and the trees

The newsroom is a busy place these days. Between balancing community events and monumental achievements, and with the Haida law coming into place, it feels...

Wildfires naturally occur, but severity is no longer ‘natural’

Last year in August, I left Haida Gwaii to embark on the 15-hour drive to the Okanagan. In Smithers, my engine light flickered on, and...

Jenny Nelson: Goodbye Tahayghen, and happy return

In 1971 I joined a large group of first year teachers at Tahayghen. Faith Thorgeirson, Nash Meralee, and Helen Scully were our pillars and...

The shoelace secret

With a little luck and know-how, you can do a lot with a shoelace. In a pinch, a shoelace can help you start a fire,...

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