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.
These two tiny Canadian communities ditched single-use plastics long ago
Most of the items on Ottawa’s plastic hit list are pretty much non-existent on Quadra and Cortes islands, two small coastal communities wedged between Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland.
North Island Green candidate Alexandra Morton aims to save wild salmon
Wild salmon champion Alexandra Morton is running under the BC Greens banner after Fisheries and Oceans Canada recently decided open-net pen fish farms could remain in the waters off Vancouver Island.
‘My work has made a difference’: Veteran North Island MLA ready for new challenges
It's been a privilege to represent North Island for 15 years but it's a good time for change, says North Island MLA and Minister of Transport Claire Trevena, who is not seeking re-election on Oct. 24.
Facey banks on forestry expertise as B.C. Liberal candidate for North Island
North Island B.C. Liberal party candidate Norm Facey worked in mills and ran boom boats and tugs before getting an engineering degree that led to management positions in large mills and forestry companies locally and across the country.
Critics slam DFO Discovery Island fish farms decision
Opponents are accusing the DFO of ignoring independent science and downplaying the risks to imperiled Fraser River sockeye salmon in favour of the aquaculture industry.
First Nations wary of consultation process on Discovery Islands fish farm decision
First Nations are warning Fisheries and Oceans Canada that final decisions around contentious fish farms in the Discovery Islands will have to respect Indigenous rights.
Liberal promise on national child care provokes mixed response
The country’s economic recovery from COVID-19 depends on building a national early learning and child-care system that allows parents, particularly women, to get back to work, says Morna Ballantyne, executive director of Child Care Now, a national child-care advocacy organization
B.C.'s struggling tourism industry will press recovery agenda during election
B.C.'s struggling tourism industry was hoping for more when the provincial government unveiled its $1.5-billion economic recovery plan just prior to calling a snap election Monday.
City councillor Michele Babchuk acclaimed as B.C. NDP candidate in North Island riding
Michele Babchuk, a councillor for the city of Campbell River, is running as the B.C. NDP candidate in the North Island riding recently vacated by Transportation Minister Claire Trevena.
Horgan says election will create stability, opposition calls it 'politics at its worst'
B.C. NDP leader John Horgan called a snap fall election on Monday, provoking a scathing response from opposition parities accusing him of acting in his self-interest by taking people to the polls during the pandemic.