Tracy Sherlock
Vancouver
About Tracy Sherlock
Tracy Sherlock writes a weekly column about B.C. politics. She also writes about education and social issues. She worked at the Vancouver Sun for ten years and community papers before that. She has received a Michener Award Citation of Merit for her work about child welfare, she has won a Jack Webster Award for feature writing, and she has been nominated for other awards.
Investigation: Oil giants who ‘make more money than God’ lobbied the federal government and got $2.6 billion in taxpayer dollars
The number of tax dollars funnelled to 11 of Canada's biggest oil and gas companies more than doubled over the past two years, a joint investigation by Canada’s National Observer and the Investigative Journalism Foundation reveals.
Gas prices have you thirsting for an EV? Good luck — they’re like unicorns
Saving money on fuel is a big reason Canadians are opting for electric cars, a March 2022 AutoTrader survey found.
Foreign oil lobbying and Canada’s energy policy
Foreign-owned and foreign-influenced oil and gas corporations are lobbying to sway Canada’s environmental and energy policies — and now is the time for environmentalists to turn up the heat against this practice, says political economist Gordon Laxer.
‘I’ve never been treated so bad in my life’: Manitoba’s first female Indigenous RCMP officer
Marge Hudson, now 66, says she is part of the group pushing for change because she wants to help the force improve its toxic culture.
New group tackles chronic problem: the RCMP’s ‘culture of harassment’
Former RCMP constable Janet Merlo is leading a group of former RCMP, former civilian staff and ex-military members calling on the federal government to establish an independent body to investigate complaints and allegations by members and employees.
Nobel summit predicts 'transformative decade' on climate
Xiye Bastida, a young climate activist from Mexico, urged scientists and world leaders to pay attention to traditional Indigenous knowledge in addition to their usual information sources as she spoke at the 2021 Nobel Prize Summit.
'No act of reconciliation is too small,' says BC advanced education minister
Verukah Poirier, a young Indigenous woman, is one of 800 former foster children whose post-secondary tuition fees were waived as part of a provincial program launched in 2017. Education at residential schools destroyed families but now can lift families up, says one advocate.
Province-wide tuition waiver gives former foster kids a fighting chance
More than 800 young adults who grew up in care are studying for free in British Columbia. It’s a significant feat. Just a third of children from foster homes and other care graduate from high school by the time they turn 19, compared with 84.6 per cent of the general population.
Bill McKibben likens climate change to Second World War
“Not very many people in any given moment of history get to say they are doing the most important thing they could be doing right now in the world,” said McKibben
Indigenous guardians, leaders hope to build a national watchman program
Shaunna Morgan Siegers was first called by the land and water when she was 18, halfway through her first year at university.