What has been described as a “catastrophic” heap leach facility failure saw four million tonnes of material unexpectedly move and two million tonnes break containment at the mine site on the ...

Of that, 41 per cent — about 83,000 hectares of unprotected spotted owl territory — is contained in forest licence A19201, according to mapping from the non-profit Wilderness Committee.

Heather Ramsay, a former reporter and freelance journalist who worked in Haida Gwaii is hitting the road this spring and summer with her debut novel, “A Room in the Forest.” ...

DARRYL DYCK/The Canadian Press Our bucket list trip in 2025 is a road trip from Ontario to Haida Gwaii, B.C. My husband was born there 69 years ago while his dad worked on the phone system.

They echoed. Haida Gwaii isn’t a place you check off a list. It’s a place that marks you. It slows you down, draws you in, and makes you feel small—in the best possible way.

About 15 per cent of Haida Gwaii is owned, managed or used by the federal government, including a national park and Haida heritage site. A further two per cent are owned by other parties.

RELATED: The B.C. government and the Council of Haida Nation have signed an agreement officially recognizing Haida Gwaii’s Aboriginal title, more than two decades after the nation launched a ...

The ballad of Dixon Entrance Somewhere between the Haida Gwaii archipelago, on the north coast of British Columbia, and the southern tip of Alaska's panhandle, Canadian waters turn into American ones.

Haida Gwaii comprises more than 200 small and large islands, 100 kilometres west of the north coast of mainland B.C. Due to its isolated location, it is cut off from the primary B.C. Hydro power grid.

For First Nations, there is much work ahead to getting beyond the foreign concepts of overlapping traditional territory maps borne of the B.C. treaty process and a dated consultation process.

Still, on Haida Gwaii, with a population of 5,000 divided evenly between Haida and non-Haida, the development is seen as a watershed. The Indigenous community spoke of colonial liberation and of ...