Rochelle Baker
Journalist | Quadra Island |
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About Rochelle Baker
Rochelle Baker is the Quadra and Cortes Islands reporter for Canada's National Observer, thanks to a grant from the Local Journalism Initiative of the Government of Canada. Rochelle has worked as a newspaper reporter and photographer in BC's Lower Mainland for over 10 years.
Audit shows just one in three Canadian fisheries is healthy
Climate change and over harvesting continue to put Canadian fisheries at risk along with Indigenous and coastal communities’ food security and economic wellbeing, a new report indicates.
Federal documents surface on plans to protect endangered orcas from oil spills
West coast environmental groups argue no measure would save southern resident whales from a catastrophic oil spill.
Hereditary chiefs call for a fishing moratorium to safeguard herring stocks
WSÁNEĆ Hereditary chiefs are urging federal Fisheries Minister Diane Lebouthillier to close the last commercial herring fishery operating along the West Coast.
Canadian activist Tzeporah Berman named one of TIME's top 100 most influential climate leaders
Tzeporah Berman, a Vancouver-based activist and policy advocate, is at the forefront of climate action nationally and internationally and driving the surge of momentum for her latest brainchild the Fossil fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Canada deploys high-tech international mission to net dark vessels and illegal fishing in Pacific
Canada has launched a two-month, high-tech mission spanning the seas as far as Japan to tackle illegal fishing in international waters of the North Pacific.
Parties pitch energy plans before B.C. election
B.C.'s party leaders emphasize the need to meet growing energy demands while keeping rates affordable and fostering First Nation’s ownership of energy projects — but proposed courses of action vary wildly.
BC Greens stand alone on the carbon tax
Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau is doubling down on the carbon tax, but staying the course on progressive policies abandoned by the NDP isn't helping draw voters in B.C.'s polarized election.
Rustad’s Indigenous policy announcement is insult to injury, say First Nations
BC Conservative Leader John Rustad is using First Nations as a "wedge issue", says Regional Chief Terry Teegee
BC election 2024: where do parties stand on climate?
As part of its ongoing BC election coverage, Canada’s National Observer is providing a cheat sheet on parties’ climate plans to date
Green Party leader is coming out swinging
B.C. Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau says she’s disrupted the province's two-party narrative before and intends to do it again in the upcoming election.