Author

Tristin Hopper

A born-and-raised Victorian, Tristin spent eight years with the National Post, becoming one of the most widely read writers on the Postmedia Network. The former Yukon associate editor for Up Here Magazine, he has also contributed to Reader’s Digest, Maisonneuve and the Globe and Mail. A frequent media commentator, he is a regular CTV panelist and has appeared on the BBC, HLN and CBC affiliates in every Canadian time zone.

Environment

The Plan to Get Greta Thunberg to Victoria without Fossil Fuels

By Tristin Hopper
Oct 24, 2019

It’s a Jacob’s Ladder of sail, rowboats, bicycles and electric cars, but the offer stands

Cowichan Nation Alliance

The Cowichan Nation’s Lost Salish Sea Empire

By Tristin Hopper
Oct 15, 2019

A coalition of Vancouver Island First Nations are in court to prove that they were once the undisputed rulers of much more than the Cowichan Valley

Indian Residential Schools

The Names of All 202 Children Known to Have Died in Vancouver Island Residential Schools

Right up to the 1980s, Islanders lived alongside institutions that subjected Indigenous children to beatings, starvation, sexual abuse and even human experimentation

Politics

Why don’t Canadians care when their politicians sleep around?

By Tristin Hopper
Sep 19, 2019

New research out of UVic finds that as long as politicians aren’t misspending their money, voters don’t seem to mind

Disaster

The Most Doomed City in Canada

By Tristin Hopper
Sep 15, 2019

What the Big One will do to Victoria

Addiction

Here’s How Much Victoria’s Cruise Ships Are Polluting

Analysis by The Capital found that 31 ships emitted a cumulative 11,406 tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2019