Canada's western provinces used to be a sleepy extension of our own agricultural inland. Now a boom has Canada looking for faster ways to bring in skilled immigrants to help with all the work.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWA 100-acre urban farm near the Vancouver airport is making a difference in how people think about their food.
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A Canadian naval vessel had engaged in sonar training just days before a female orca, who might have bred and helped with L pod's recovery, washed up on the coast.
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Radical U.S. environmentalists are out to get Canada! And seize the energy, oil, and wood businesses for the U.S.! Or, so a hypocritical government says.
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Who did most to raze, wreck, uproot, neglect, and generally trash our historic treasures in 2011? The envelopes, please...
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An abusive British imperial trade, exporting unwanted children to Australia and Canada, is movingly revealed in "Oranges and Sunshine." The author had a first-hand encounter with the issue.
READ MORE | 3 COMMENTSAs Seattle prepares to celebrate 50 years as the little expo city that could, the chance for a future fair in the USA is a long way off.
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Puget Sound is a poster child for the problems of regional transportation planning. One big roadblock: long-standing distrust of Seattle.
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This dubious distinction points up how severe income inequality has become in Canada and the U.S. New evidence shows the terrible toll on people and economies such widening gaps can have.
READ MORE | 16 COMMENTSA new autobiography takes readers through the life of environmental power-activist Tzeporah Berman, from the inside of a jail cell to the Hollywood red carpet, and highlights lessons learned in the world of negotiating.
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A book on America's "first civil war" looks at the so-called Mormon Rebellion, an event that spread fear throughout the Pacific Northwest as people worried about a new, independent theocratic state rising in the far West. The struggle has lessons for today.
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As the lawsuits and citizen opposition mount up, the oil companies are looking at other routes and changing their story about the size of the huge modules they hope to haul by truck on a two-lane highway from Lewiston to Alberta's vast oil reserves.
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As marine scientists learned about the integrated marine life of Puget Sound, the Strait of Juan de Fuca, and the Strait of Georgia, they realized the need for a common name. The key advocate recounts the tale of the naming of the Salish Sea.
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Over 20 years, environmentalists have won big battles to protect lynx in Washington state and beyond. But the wild cats are designed for deep snow and preying on the snowshoe hare that lives in that habitat. More rain and less snow, as climate change is bringing, spells trouble.
READ MORE | 2 COMMENTSStreet food, music, a relaxed crowd and an energetic scene, even without a beer garden. And this festival atmosphere carries on through 17 weekends a year.
READ MORE | COMMENT NOWThe latest from news outlets and blogs around the Northwest and beyond, chosen by Crosscut editors.
Already angered by huge tuition increases, Quebec students were further inflamed over the weekend by passage of a 'special law' suspending classes until mid-August and restricting protests.
As more and more Canadians turn to the U.S. for their shopping needs, Canada is experiencing a major drain on its economy.
The Canadian public network is reeling from budget cuts and an identity crisis.
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