Smoke and the Water

Hello and welcome to The Scoop. A provincial newscast and podcast with stories from LJI journalists around British Columbia. Each week, reporters from Revelstoke, Cortes Island, Kootenay, Terrace, Prince George and Smithers will share the news affecting their place in BC. 

I’m your host and producer, Pamela Haasen from CICK News in Smithers.

The Scoop was made possible by The Community Radio Fund of Canada and the Local Journalism Initiative program, or LJI.

Follow The Scoop on CICK, Smithers Community Radio 93.9FM every Thursday at noon, online on Smithers Radio dot Com and wherever you get your podcasts.

The ecosystem in the Nechako region is STRESSED. River water  levels are disturbingly low, and  CFUR’s Ian Gregg gets to the silty bottom of it all. 

There’s a sneaky new pipeline in the process of getting approved under a decade-old environmental assessment in the Skeena Region, CICK News is speaking to Gitanyow representative Naxginkw (Tara Marsden) about it.

Bill C-18, Bill C-18, we keep hearing about it, that online news act. But Google and Canadian feds have come to an agreement. STOKE FM’s Meagan Deuling has the scoop.

Good news comes by way of Friends of Cortes Island, or FOCAI, an organization celebrating 33 years on Cortes, Kim paulley spreads the word.

Training new firefighters is a time-consuming thing, but the Regional District of Central Kootenay thinks they’ve found a work-around. Story by Scott Onychuck

Gitanmakc Makai and Rupert Meats have started a new company selling smoked salmon. CFNR’s Sabrina Spencer has the scoop.