The Fairy Creek watershed is at the centre of this battle, but it has expanded well beyond any one stand of trees. Photo: Jimmy Thomson / Capital Daily
🌲News
Despite an injunction, the Fairy Creek blockade swells with supporters
Harley Gordon·Thursday, April 8, 2021·7 min
Photo: Daniel Schludi / Unsplash
🩺News
The Pfizer vaccine could be approved within a week. What happens next?
Harley Gordon·Wednesday, December 2, 2020·8 min
Health Minister Adrian Dix and Chief Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry provide an update on COVID-19 on November 9, 2020 (BC Ministry of Health).
🩺News
Here is how to avoid the most likely situations for infection
Harley Gordon·Tuesday, November 17, 2020·6 min
Photo by author Harley Gordon of a road blockade in Fairy Creek.
🏠News
For two months, a 24-hour blockade has been attempting to stop planned logging of a stand of old-growth near Port Renfrew
Harley Gordon·Thursday, November 5, 2020·7 min
Big Lonely Doug, the second-largest Douglas fir tree in Canada and the only survivor of a clearcut outside of Port Renfrew (Photo by Ancient Forest Alliance).
🌲News
Cutting down primordial forests is still a key part of BC's forestry sector, but for how much longer is anybody's guess
Harley Gordon·Tuesday, October 20, 2020·7 min
This handout photo by Abbott shows a toaster-sized testing station that could see COVID-19 tests performed in minutes without the need for professional lab technicians.
🩺Health
The return of tourism, care home visits and even music festivals could now be on the horizon
Harley Gordon·Thursday, October 1, 2020·5 min
A lineup outside Costco in West Shore (Photo for Capital Daily by James MacDonald).
🩺News
The second wave of COVID-19 is shaping up to be way less deadly than the first
Harley Gordon·Sunday, September 27, 2020·6 min
An orange haze enshrouds these sailboats anchored just off Victoria's coast (James MacDonald for The Capital).
🌲News
Years of disrupting the forests' natural burn cycle has predictably yielded the apocalyptic firestorm now choking the West Coast with haze
Harley Gordon·Thursday, September 17, 2020·5 min
🩺News
Social distancing has saved thousands of lives, but it’s ruined thousands of others
Harley Gordon·Saturday, August 29, 2020·8 min
🩺News
Unlike almost all infectious disease pandemics throughout history, this one leaves children largely unscathed
Harley Gordon·Friday, August 7, 2020·4 min
The Chinese rufous horseshoe bat features in this photo illustration by Tristan Pratt.
🏠News
We definitely know it comes from a Chinese bat, but that's where it gets murky
Harley Gordon·Saturday, August 1, 2020·8 min
Biologist William G. Dundon with the International Atomic Energy Agency prepares the extraction of the COVID-19 virus genome in this May photo (IAEA).
🏠News
From finding a vaccine to reaching herd immunity naturally, this is what the science says about how we return to normal
Harley Gordon·Friday, July 10, 2020·7 min
Photo illustration by Tristan Pratt for The Capital
🩺News
Even with nearly 500,000 dead, the world dodged a bullet in terms of what could have been. The economy, however, may never be the same.
Harley Gordon·Friday, June 26, 2020·7 min