Critical minerals mining affects us all, both as water users and consumers of new technology. Shifting away from oil and coal is creating huge demand to extract more and more “critical minerals” from unspoiled ecosystems. Lax regulations allow companies to abandon toxic sites. Until last year, all of BC – including private property – was…

Ever find yourself in a conversation about Indigenous rights that goes sideways? We’ve all been there. Understanding the complexities of how we got to where we are right now as a country is tricky.  That’s why we have been working for two years to develop Home on Native Land, a self-guided, 10-lesson online course that…

The newly-formed Sentinel Educational Foundation presented its first public event – a zoom-based discussion on Food System Security in the Comox Valley, on October 3, 2022. The last couple of years have shown us how fragile the networks that deliver our essentials (and non-essentials) can be, from snow storms to war, to drought and climate…