Six-week investigation found no evidence of meeting in First Nation where B.C. government claims community voted 244 to three in favour of LNG development proposal, and raises questions about whether legal obligation to “free, prior and informed consent” was achieved LAX KW’ALAAMS, B.C. — Despite B.C. Premier Christy Clark’s repeated claim that the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation voted in favour of a proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility on Lelu Island in…
VANCOUVER, BC – This week, Discourse Media launched Power Struggle, a collaborative journalism project that asks how energy poverty impacts communities around the world. It investigates emerging solutions that consider climate change. And it demonstrates what’s possible when journalists, media outlets and non-profits work together to critically investigate complex global challenges through a solutions lens. Discourse Media collaborated with nine international reporting fellows to investigate how energy poverty affects people…
What is the best way to measure the impact of our collaboration with Maclean’s that probed high rates of Indigenous incarceration? VANCOUVER, B.C. – As a journalist, when I start digging into a complex story, I’m bolstered by the idea of impact. When this thing breaks, how will people react? Whose perspective will be broadened? What policies might change? I hope for a ripple and fantasize about a tidal wave. But how…
