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Join us for the way overdue Microbruin about Spirit Bears! This special type of Kermode Bear is truly unique, so grab a bevvy and settle in for the ride.Find us on all the things: http://linktr.ee/bearsandbrewspodcast Sources Cited:Bourton, Jody. “BBC - Earth News - Spirit Bears Become “Invisible.”” Bbc.co.uk, BBC, 2025, news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8344000/8344367.stm. KLINKA, DAN R., and THOMAS E. REIMCHEN. “Adaptive Coat Colour Polymorphism in the Kermode Bear of Coastal British Columbia.” Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, vol. 98, no. 3, 27 Oct. 2009, pp. 479–488, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2009.01306.x. “Research: Dietary Differences among Individuals with Different Genes and Coat Colours Gives Insight into the Maintenance of the Spirit Bears among Black Bear Populations | Raincoast.” Raincoast, 6 May 2021, www.raincoast.org/2021/05/research-dietary-differences-genes-spirit-bears-among-black-bear-populations/. “Saving the Kermode “Spirit” Bear.” National Wildlife Federation, 28 Jan. 2010, www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2010/Kermode-bear.Service, Christina N., et al. “Intrapopulation Foraging Niche Variation between Phenotypes and Genotypes of Spirit Bear Populations.” Ecology and Evolution, vol. 11, no. 10, 13 Apr. 2021, pp. 5025–5037, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7276. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Roy L Hales/Cortes Currents - As of September 30th, 2025, Raincoast Networks serves the 347 remaining customers in what was once the Twincomm service area on Cortes Island. Mascon by Telus acquired Twincomm in 2022. “I come from Savary Island. We provide internet to those who have decided to live off grid and in remote communities and cannot be served well by other telecom providers, majors and things from space, explained Oliver Linsley, owner of Raincoast Networks “We've been doing this for eight years and we service areas from Howe Sound all the way to Cortes. It has been a wonderful adventure, mainly because I get to meet some fantastic people in places I didn't even know existed. We've helped communities up and down the coast, and that's where we got our pride from. It's not from a paycheck (laughs), I can tell you that, but it definitely is from the fact that I can go to someone's house and they have baked cookies for me. They're just super happy that we came in a boat and we've driven across a whole bunch of crazy oceans and we're at their house and we're going to fix it.” Cortes Currents: How did you get into Cortes Island? Oliver Linsley: “Into Cortes was a interesting situation. I have been dealing with major telecom companies since we started. In the beginning, it was a very positive situation where they were very interested in working with people like me as last mile providers, so they did not have to extend their networks out at a cost they did not like. Telecom likes density because it maximizes their investment. So they partnered up with me and we began working at these remote places. As COVID hit, the demand skyrocketed and the government came around and gave them monies, and we began competing with Major Telecom (Mascon by Telus).” “Major Telecom decided that they had gotten too far. They had purchased Twincommm from Mark Torrance on Twin Islands. After two years of owning that, it had served its purpose to them, and they no longer wanted the asset and the customers here on Cortes. They approached me and asked me if I wanted to take over the network. Over the course of about a year and, for various me reasons me saying 'no I don't think so,' in the end, I decided that Cortes was a wonderfully remote community with demand that I wanted to be a part of. So after a long, long period of negotiations, we ended up picking up Cortes, about 350 customers on the island and we just acquiring it as of today, I believe.” Cortes Currents: What are you offering? Oliver Linsley: “We basically offer the same service that Twincommm did. We are very community based. We are looking to pick up a tech here on island. We like to keep customer service, which is something very rare in rural places, as fast as possible. So if your system goes awry one day, perhaps we can actually get to you in one day or the next day as opposed to some of the situations where you get with other providers where they just don't have a presence in the community. We really pride ourselves. in being there to keep people online, because most of the time it's quite an easy fix.” “So we are offering fixed to wireless services that most people are already hooked up to are already operating. They're operating the same way as TwinComm built them the same way as Mascon was running them. We are going to optimize the network. Essentially it's very similar to what Twincomm was, but we'll be upgrading. Pricing should be the same. The speed should be faster.”

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The NDP created B.C's fiscal mess, how can they fix it? GUEST: Richard Zussman, Global BC Legislative Reporter  Alberta aggressively pursues B.C's food manufacturing industry GUEST: Dr. Lenore Newman, Director of the Food and Agriculture Institute at the University of the Fraser Valley  B.C government doubles down on West Vancouver and Oak Bay to meet housing targets GUEST: Ravi Kahlon, B.C's Minister of Housing and Municipal Affairs Metro Vancouver estimates 50,000 residents moving in each year GUEST: Eric Woodward, Chair of Metro Vancouver's Regional Planning Committee Harbour Publishing celebrates 50 years with Raincoast Chronicles: Fifth Five GUEST: Howard White, founder and publisher of Harbour Publishing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, we dive into the crucial work of the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, exploring how they integrate scientific research and community partnerships to protect British Columbia's coastal ecosystems. Kristen Walters, Director of Salmon Habitat, Climate, and Policy, discusses the threats facing these environments, successful conservation projects, and the importance of public education and advocacy. Join us as we uncover how Raincoast is leading the way in environmental stewardship and sustainability.

Rob Alley is a Sasquatch researcher and published author (Raincoast Sasquatch and Brushes with Bigfoot) who has spent decades studying the Native American and Canadian perspectives on Sasquatch: what they are, how they behave, and how they interact with humans. Tune in to hear his unique perspective!Tune in Live at 7 PM Central, 8 PM Eastern, 5 PM Pacific Coast, and 6 PM Mountain Time.

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Welcome to an episode that ventures deep into the heart of the rain-drenched forests of the Pacific Northwest, where the line between legend and reality blurs. This week on Untold Radio AM, hosts Doug and Alex Hajicek are joined by renowned Bigfoot researcher and author, Robert Alley, for an enthralling discussion that will leave you questioning what lurks in the shadows of our world.

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Our guest today works with the RainCoast Conservation Foundation - a non-profit, empowered by research to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of coastal British Columbia Please welcome Chelsea Greer to IMPACT!   If you like what we are doing please like, share and subscribe to IMPACT    This episode is sponsored by Hollyhock -  dedicated to helping create a better future via education and personal sharing.  www.hollyhock.ca   Full Bio: Chelsea Greer is an emerging conservation scientist with an interest in animal ethics and coexistence. She holds a MSc in Geography from the University of Calgary and a BSc in Applied Animal Biology from the University of British Columbia.    Chelsea currently works with Raincoast Conservation Foundation - a non-profit organization made up of a team of conservationists and scientists empowered by our research to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of coastal British Columbia.    Chelsea joined the Raincoast team in 2021 to help develop the Wolf Conservation Program and continues to coordinate and deliver the program's various initiatives. Raincoast's wolf initiatives are working toward implementation of provincial policy that respects the welfare of wolves and their ecological role. This includes putting an end to the killing of wolves in BC for the purposes of predator control, trophy, and perceived competition for shared prey.    Raincoast is currently raising funds to stop commercial trophy hunting in more than a quarter of the Great Bear Rainforest in BC. Purchasing the Southern Great Bear Rainforest Tenure, which covers 18,239 km2, protects wolves and dozens of other species from being commercially trophy hunted because it gives Raincoast the exclusive rights to commercially guide trophy hunters. Raincoast currently controls the commercial hunting rights in five tenures, more than 38,000 km2 of the BC coast – an area larger than Vancouver Island or the entire country of Belgium.   ● Safeguarding Coastal Carnivores in the Southern Great Bear Rainforest tenure: https://www.raincoast.org/trophy-hunt/   ● Take action to protect BC Wolves: https://www.raincoast.org/wolves/   Social platforms: ● Twitter: @chelgreer @raincoast ● Instagram: @raincoastconservation ● Website: www.raincoast.org ● Email: chelsea@raincoast.org www.raincoast.eco/link/

Welcome to the Mess Hall Podcast, part of the Alberta Podcast Network, Locally grown. Community supported. Avery and Lena try pumpkin spiced food: sweet potato chips, cookies, caramels, and Raincoast crisps.  Our bonus item is grouse whinberry crisps.   Follow us and send a message at: Twitter @themesshallpod Facebook @messhallpodcas Instrgram @messhallpod  email: messhallpodcast@gmail.com  This week's podcast shoutout is going to 2 AND OUT CFL PODCAST Hosts Travis Currah and Brazilian Ty focus on fantasy rankings, league news, and Canadian football. Find out more at 2andoutca.wordpress.com With warmer weather comes yardwork. And lots of it. Prune your trees and shrubs, clean your eavestroughs, replace those drafty windows you noticed over the winter.  Or, you can call Rümi to take care of all your outdoor and indoor spring home maintenance while you fire up the BBQ and relax.  Visit Rumi.ca or call 1-844-777-7864 and let Rümi's trusted local experts take care of your yard, so all you have to do is enjoy it.   

Today is Part 2  of this episode. Many share the same dream - move abroad, work in Paris and hone our high school French skills to live our best life in France.   Well, that's exactly what Lesley Stowe started out doing and from there she became a tenacious entrepreneur, culinary pioneer, established a thriving business, and became a cookbook author.   Besides these many accomplishments one of her lasting legacies is the creation of Rainforest Crisps.   Lesley ends our interview with,  "follow your dreams"  and "find a good mentor."  Thanks for the great advice!www.lesleystowe.comwww.instagram/lesleystowewww.glosays.comwww.instagram/glosaysTOP 25 BUSINESS PODCASTS IN CANADA

This week we're re-releasing our King Salmon episode from September 23! Buckle in for a talk about the importance of salmon to coastal ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest. And we'll be back next week with a new episode that we're really excited about! To learn more about Chinook salmon conservation, take a look at Raincoast's great wild salmon program.  If you'd like to support the show, please check out our merch store where we sell stickers and postcards featuring Olivia's illustrations.  Don't forget to subscribe and leave us a rating and review. To stay up to date and see our weekly episode illustrations, make sure to follow us on Instagram and Twitter. Beyond Blathers is hosted and produced by Olivia deBourcier and Sofia Osborne, with art by Olivia deBourcier and music by Max Hoosier. This podcast is not associated with Animal Crossing or Nintendo, we just love this game!

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth novel in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the surreptitious return of the antagonist Lord Voldemort, O.W.L. exams, and an obstructive Ministry of Magic. The novel was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada. It sold five million copies in the first 24 hours of publication. It is the longest book of the series.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling and the fifth novel in the Harry Potter series. It follows Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the surreptitious return of the antagonist Lord Voldemort, O.W.L. exams, and an obstructive Ministry of Magic. The novel was published on 21 June 2003 by Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom, Scholastic in the United States, and Raincoast in Canada. It sold five million copies in the first 24 hours of publication. It is the longest book of the series.

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There has been lots of conversation surrounding the guide outfitting class action lawsuit against the ban put in place by the BC Government on hunting grizzly bears. We heard from the Guide Outfitters Association of B.C. earlier on in the program.   Scott Ellis says it's been a tough year since the province took a tough stand on the trophy hunt. They are pursuing a class action suit to be compensated for all they've lost.   Now now we're going to look at the other side with the Raincoast Conservation Foundation. Raincoast consists of conservationists and scientists who used peer-reviewed scientific research to achieve their conservation goals. They have been very active in working to protect grizzly bears, and Chris Genovali with the Raincoast Conservation Foundation joins me now…   Guest: Chris Genovali Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Lesley Stowe, a true Canadian food entrepreneur, and the founder of the infamous artisan crackers – Raincoast Crisps. The crackers are so popular, they’ve been  featured on Oprah’s list of favourite things and in Martha Stewart Living magazine. They’ve also been served in the White House.  In this short chat with Adam, Lesley shares stories about how she funded the venture early on, the importance of being in the right environment for your passion, and why she sold to Dare Foods, a family owned private company vs. a private equity firm. Enjoy! 

West coast bears like their fish. I don’t think we really need science to tell us that. But which bears eat what, how much salmon they’re eating, where they’re getting it from, what influence that has on the ecosystems around them, even at great distances from the coast, and how that could all impact management across geopolitical lines - now that’s what science is good at. Megan Adams, PhD candidate at the University of Victoria, research scholar with the Hakai Institute, and biologist with the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, recently published a study examining the data associated with some of these questions. That study included samples from over 1,400 grizzly and black bears across 690,000 km2 of BC, from 1995 to 2014.  Adams worked with the Wuikinuxv Nation, as well, adding the importance of traditional knowledge to her research and conclusions. Megan joined Defender Radio to discuss her recently published paper, why salmon and bear populations should be managed together, the influence her time with the Wuikinuxv Nation has imparted on her work, and what animal lovers and environmentalists need to know to protect the salmon-bear relationship and all that it represents in BC.

We began to tentatively celebrate when earlier this month the Auditor General of British Columbia revealed there would be an investigation into the trophy hunting of grizzly bears. The exact notification, found on the AG website, read the investigation would be to, “determine if the Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations are effectively managing the grizzly bear population in BC.” The announcement is a result of the AG’s office seeing a peer-reviewed study conducted by our friends at Raincoast Conservation Foundation on the matter of uncertainty in the wildlife policy as it existed in 2013. With support from the Victoria Environmental Law Centre and the David Suzuki Foundation, the study got the attention it deserves – and now we await the results of the investigation. But what, exactly, did that study say? What is uncertainty in the science of ecology, and how does it – or should it – influence wildlife management policy? To answer these questions and walk us through the study, Defender Radio was joined by lead author and Raincoast biologist Kyle Artelle.

We know that grizzly bears love fish. We know that grizzly bears can come into conflict with people and infrastructure. And now, thanks to researchers at Raincoast Conservation Foundation, we know how those two facts are tied together. Earlier this month, Raincoast published their study, Ecology of conflict: Marine food supply affects human-wildlife interactions on land, in the journal Scientific Reports. By examining over three decades of conflict-killed grizzly reports, the researchers determined that food availability was the greatest cause of conflict – and that other factors such as hunting or population changes played a much less significant role. To discuss this study, what it means for policy decisions in the future, and why understanding how important ecological studies are to wildlife management, Defender Radio spoke with the lead author of the study Kyle Artelle, who is a biologist for Raincoast and a Hakai PhD scholar at Simon Fraser University.

In the animal kingdom, the power of fear is something no one would question. Fear can impact and control entire populations, affect whole ecosystems, and even change the path of evolution. But is it something we can measure – and once and for all, prove that the role of predators is more than just what they eat? A new study from Raincoast Conservation Foundation does just that. Led by Raincoast’s ecologist and PhD student Justin Suraci, the team of scientists showed through experiments that the mere presence of predators can impact the behaviour of mesopredators and other species further down the food chain. By using the sound of dogs barking Suraci and his team validated that fear itself is indeed something to behold. To talk more about this study, its real world applications, and what it could be mean in future policy planning, Defender Radio was joined by Raincoast’s Justin Suraci.

Predator control is a nasty business. Millions of animals are killed each year around the country to protect livestock, ecosystems and, depending on who you listen to, children. The problem with this entire system of treating predators as the bad guy is that we’re missing the biggest and the baddest of them all: us. In a peer-reviewed paper published in the journal Science, researchers from the Raincoast Conservation Foundation, University of Victoria (UVic), and the Hakai Institute pulled data from hundreds of studies worldwide to confirm that humans are dangerous “super-predators.” To dive into how human actions are impacting fish populations, carnivore and herbivore relationships, and even changing the very course of evolution before our eyes, Defender Radio was fortunate to be joined by Raincoast science director and Hakai-Raincoast professor at UVic, Dr. Chris Darimont.

March 22, 2012 - 7:00pm - 8:30pm The On Edge Readings Series presents World Water Night: readings by Lee Maracle and Michael Blackstock with a special screening of Samaqan: Water Stories, with director Jeff Bear. Lee Maracle is one of the most prolific aboriginal authors in Canada. Her books include Daughters Are Forever (fiction, Raincoast, 2002), Will's Garden (Theytus, 2002), Bent Box (poetry, Theytus Books, 2000), Sojourners & Sundogs (fiction, Press Gang, 1999), Ravensong (Press Gang, 1993), I Am Woman (nonfiction, Press Gang, 1988) and Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel (fiction, Women's Press, 1975). She received the J.T. Stewart Voices of Change Award, and she contributed to First Fish, First People, which won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award. Maracle has taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, Western Washington University, South Oregon University, and many more places. Michael Blackstock has published two books of poetry: Salmon Run: A Florilegium of Aboriginal Ecological Poetry (Kamloops: Wyget Books, 2005) and Oceaness (Kamloops: Wyget Books, 2010). Of Gitxsan (Hazelton) and Euro-Canadian descent, Blackstock has a MA in First Nations Studies. His first book, Faces in the Forest (McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 2001), examines tree art in conjunction with First Nations cosmology, citing carvings, paintings and writings on trees within Gitxsan, Nisga'a, Tlingit, Carrier and Dene traditional territories. He has served as a member of the UNESCO-IHP Expert Advisory Group on Water and Cultural Diversity. Jeff Bear (Maliseet) produces, writes and directs independent documentaries with director Marianne Jones (Haida) at Urban Rez Productions in Vancouver. Since 2000 Urban Rez has produced the 26-part series Ravens and Eagles, for broadcast on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, as well as Storytellers in Motion, a 39 part documentary series about indigenous storytellers, and currently, Samaqan: Water Stories. The first documentary that Bear and Jones shot together, Burnt Church: Obstruction of Justice won the 2001 Telefilm/APTN award for Best English Language Production. Bear received the 2000 Leo Award for Best Information Series as the producer of First Story, an aboriginal current affairs program broadcast in Canada on CTV. Bear speaks the Maliseet language fluently and was raised in Tobique First Nation, New Brunswick. The On Edge series gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council and Emily Carr University

he On Edge Readings Series presents World Water Night: readings by Lee Maracle and Michael Blackstock with a special screening of Samaqan: Water Stories, with director Jeff Bear. Lee Maracle is one of the most prolific aboriginal authors in Canada. Her books include Daughters Are Forever (fiction, Raincoast, 2002), Will's Garden (Theytus, 2002), Bent Box (poetry, Theytus Books, 2000), Sojourners & Sundogs (fiction, Press Gang, 1999), Ravensong (Press Gang, 1993), I Am Woman (nonfiction, Press Gang, 1988) and Bobbi Lee, Indian Rebel (fiction, Women's Press, 1975). She received the J.T. Stewart Voices of Change Award, and she contributed to First Fish, First People, which won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award. Maracle has taught at the University of Toronto, the University of Waterloo, Western Washington University, South Oregon University, and many more places. Michael Blackstock has published two books of poetry: Salmon Run: A Florilegium of Aboriginal Ecological Poetry (Kamloops: Wyget Books, 2005) and Oceaness (Kamloops: Wyget Books, 2010). Of Gitxsan (Hazelton) and Euro-Canadian descent, Blackstock has a MA in First Nations Studies. His first book, Faces in the Forest (McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 2001), examines tree art in conjunction with First Nations cosmology, citing carvings, paintings and writings on trees within Gitxsan, Nisga'a, Tlingit, Carrier and Dene traditional territories. He has served as a member of the UNESCO-IHP Expert Advisory Group on Water and Cultural Diversity. Jeff Bear (Maliseet) produces, writes and directs independent documentaries with director Marianne Jones (Haida) at Urban Rez Productions in Vancouver. Since 2000 Urban Rez has produced the 26-part series Ravens and Eagles, for broadcast on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, as well as Storytellers in Motion, a 39 part documentary series about indigenous storytellers, and currently, Samaqan: Water Stories. The first documentary that Bear and Jones shot together, Burnt Church: Obstruction of Justice won the 2001 Telefilm/APTN award for Best English Language Production. Bear received the 2000 Leo Award for Best Information Series as the producer of First Story, an aboriginal current affairs program broadcast in Canada on CTV. Bear speaks the Maliseet language fluently and was raised in Tobique First Nation, New Brunswick. The On Edge series gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council and Emily Carr University.