SGSonal Gupta

1. Article · Aug 23, 2026 · Sonal Gupta, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada's National Observer

   First Nation-led pilot turns forestry waste into foam with federal backing (opens the original)

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   As wildfires burn through BC forests, a First Nation is demonstrating what can be done with any damaged or leftover wood by turning it into biodegradable packaging and building insulation. Reg Ogen, a Wet’suwet’en leader who has been hearing helicopters over his Penticton home as crews fight a major wildfire near Summerland, said this latest disaster points to a larger supply of damaged wood across BC that could be put to use. The idea first came from Wet’suwet’en Elders who questioned why fores

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2. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Sonal Gupta, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Canada's National Observer

   'The continuous battle' to defeat one of the worst invasive species follows a devastating diesel spill (opens the original)

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   One of Turza Humchitt’s earliest memories is of her grandmother’s table, where family sat on benches on either side and shared from a large pot that might hold soup, clams, cockles or Dungeness crab. Fresh clams were steamed with rice, fried in the half-shell or eaten with broth sipped straight from the shell. For Humchitt, they still taste like childhood. “It reminds me of what’s always been there,” said Humchitt, a Heiltsuk community member who lives in Bella Bella, on BC’s central coast. Now,

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