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Evan Mitsui

Trading Pacific Northwest ski-touring days and surf trips for a life in the big city, Evan Mitsui moved from Vancouver to Toronto in 2011 for a job at the photo desk at the CBC. Leaving the coast offered him a newfound perspective on the beauty and blemishes of his British Columbia home province, which he returns to as often as he can.

For over 25 years, a fight has been raging in the heart of British Columbia’s Purcell Mountains. The proposed construction of Jumbo Glacier Resort in the…