Brishti Basu
About Brishti Basu
Brishti Basu is a journalist and editor based in B.C. who reports breaking and in-depth stories about health, labour, housing, climate change and more. She has written and edited at a number of publications including CBC, The Breach, The Tyee, and Capital Daily.
Brishti can be reached at brishtireports [at] gmail [dot] com.
Three years after wrongful arrest, RCMP will apologize to Fairy Creek hiker
Brian Smallshaw is still waiting for an apology from RCMP for his wrongful arrest near Fairy Creek logging protests. But the historian from Salt Spring is satisfied with the results of an RCMP Civilian Review and Complaints Commission investigation, released in its entirety this week, that found officers were out of line when they arrested him for ‘obstructing a peace officer’ three years ago.
BC’s latest ‘old growth’ conservation announcement is mostly not about old growth
All but one of the forests included in this purchase announcement do not contain old-growth trees. Instead, seven of the eight purchased properties contain what’s called “recruitment” old-growth — that is, forests that have been logged.
Crypto operations suck water, but Canadian governments aren't monitoring how much
The amount of water it takes to mine cryptocurrency in Canada is on the rise, with little regulatory oversight and no disclosure requirements to track the operations’ consumption levels.