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.
British Columbia Burning
In British Columbia Burning, author Bethany Lindsay does an in-depth investigation into what happened last summer, also taking a look back at the history of wildfires in B.C. and a peak forward at the possibilities for both preventing and fighting them.
Is B.C. headed for another devastating summer of wildfires?
With warm weather, a high snowpack and floodwaters rising throughout the province, it may seem like B.C. is set to repeat last year’s weather patterns, which led to a catastrophic summer of fires.
B.C. Finance Minister Carole James could play big role in new relationship with Indigenous people
She's positioned to make a big difference. And she is. Here are a few of the ways.
B.C. turns to courts to regulate diluted bitumen from Alberta
The B.C. government is asking the courts to decide whether the province can legally regulate the transportation of hazardous substances like diluted bitumen through the province.
In a packed courtroom, Kinder Morgan pipeline protestors face charges
About 100 defendants appeared in B.C. Supreme Court on Wednesday, to face charges for protesting within a court-imposed exclusion zone at the Trans Mountain pipeline construction site in Burnaby.
West Coast hopes to keep tougher vehicle emission standards, despite U.S. announcement
As controversy swirls around the fate of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, a quieter storm is gathering about vehicle emissions.
B.C. Enviro Minister reacts to pipeline pressure from Ottawa and Alberta
Disputes over the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline should be settled in court, B.C.’s environment minister said Tuesday. “Where there is a dispute, we’re going to court. That’s where disputes should be settled, not by threats, coercion and intimidation,” George Heyman said in an interview.
A Matter of Confidence gives insiders an intimate look into B.C. politics
A Matter of Confidence is a new book by two veteran B.C. legislature journalists, Rob Shaw and Richard Zussman. It begins with Gordon Campbell’s disastrous 2009 decision to bring in the Harmonized Sales Tax, which ultimately cost him his job, and ends with the 2017 swearing in of John Horgan as B.C.’s first BC NDP premier since 2001.
Stories of Indigenous women and girls can change the future — if we listen
Are you listening? While human instinct is often to turn away from stories of violence, loss and pain, in the case of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, people should lean in.
BC FED President Irene Lanzinger calls climate change and inequality 'defining problems of our time'
Labour leaders from around the world gathered in Vancouver yesterday to discuss 'just transition' from fossil fuel-based economies.