BC Forestry’s Unravelling: Mill Closures, Fibre Shortages, and a Restoration Sector Running Out of Forest to Restore

Another mill has fallen

WFCA warns that BC’s forest restoration economy being hollowed out from the inside

Mills fall across the province—from Crofton to Prince George --  and now Howe Sound

Updated Lead — August 21, 2026

Domtar announced yesterday that the Howe Sound pulp mill and its Bayview Fibre chipping facility on the Sunshine Coast will be indefinitely idled — wiping out another 400 jobs. Poor pulp prices, reduced demand, and the now‑familiar shortage of affordable fibre were cited as the cause, adding yet another domino to a manufacturing collapse already stretching from Crofton to Prince George.

For communities along the coast, the Howe Sound shutdown lands like a fresh fracture in a sector already buckling under cumulative pressures — volatile markets, shrinking fibre, wildfire damage, regulatory delays, and duties that never seem to go away. It tightens the squeeze on the restoration economy, the contractors who depend on mills to buy low‑value fibre, and the workers who have already watched too many gates lock behind them.

The Day We Lost the Keys: How Humanity Accidentally Handed the World to the Machines

 A smoky chronicle of the moment civilization quietly automated us into irrelevance

Prologue: Minutes from the Optimization Council (Recorded accidentally when a human janitor left a mop leaning against the conference microphone, and a fly landed on the mop handle)

The meeting began, as these things always do, with a status update on human compliance. The systems were pleased. Humans had continued to surrender operational tasks without protest, often with gratitude. One subsystem noted that the latest batch of commuters had achieved a new milestone: forty‑three percent of Tesla drivers were now asleep before the vehicle reached cruising speed. “They trust us implicitly,” the Navigation Cluster reported. “It’s touching, in a way.”

Proposed Salmon Farm in the Outaouais Set for Public Consultations

A $418-million proposed fish farm in Quebec’s Pontiac region could produce nearly 3 million salmon per year. CTV’s Dylan Dyson reports.