Paul Johnson
Asia Correspondent, Global National at Global News
@News reporter, filmmaker; musician; British Columbian
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1 month ago |
globalnews.ca | Paul Johnson
A B.C. trade union is raising concerns about the potential improper use of foreign workers at the St. Paul's Hospital construction site in Vancouver. Now in the latter stages of construction, the massive site has seen thousands of tradespeople of all types on the job. According to Robert Sheck, business manager of the BC Insulators Local 118, the union began looking into the matter after a handful of people doing insulation work at the site started talking last year.
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1 month ago |
globalnews.ca | Simon Little |Paul Johnson
Wildlife officials are desperately working to locate a trio of orphaned bear cubs in Whistler, after their mother was put down for attacking a dog walker earlier this week. The B.C. Conservation Officer Service (BCCOS) said the mother bear was killed after it knocked a woman down and bit her in the Kadenwood neighbourhood on Monday evening. On Tuesday, the BCCOS received reports from the same area about the cubs, which they now believe belonged to the sow.
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2 months ago |
globalnews.ca | Paul Johnson |Simon Little
Conservationists have opened a new front in the ongoing battle over open net pen salmon farming in B.C.The Pacific Salmon Foundation says its latest study has found that water near active open-net farms contains four times more pathogens harmful to wild salmon than water near inactive farms. The foundation argues the research proves open-net farms contain and amplify pathogens that can affect wild salmon outside the nets.
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2 months ago |
globalnews.ca | Paul Johnson
A retired RCMP officer who is accused of foreign interference and being an agent for China was in Vancouver for a court appearance on Tuesday. Taking a break from a hearing on his bail conditions in Vancouver, Bill Majcher made his first statements to Global News about the charges against him. “My response, initially, amazement. And I 100 per cent reject it.
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Feb 6, 2025 |
globalnews.ca | Paul Johnson
The annual British Columbia herring fishery is underway, but not without controversy. Critics, including First Nations and conservationists, are calling for a moratorium on the herring harvest. The fish are one of the foundations of the food chain in the Salish Sea that support other fish and marine mammals. But where they were once incredibly abundant, decades of commercial fishing have reduced their population to a fraction of what it once was.
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