{"id":11547,"date":"2023-02-13T10:05:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T18:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/?p=11547"},"modified":"2023-02-13T10:05:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T18:05:43","slug":"dr-afia-raja-appears-on-ctv-vancouver-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2023\/02\/13\/dr-afia-raja-appears-on-ctv-vancouver-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Afia Raja appears on CTV Vancouver News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. Afia Raja<\/strong>, Assistant Professor from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufv.ca\/land-and-environment\/\">School of Land Use and Environmental Change<\/a> was recently interviewed on the CTV Vancouver News on the topic of the\u00a0 environmental impact of abandoned homeless camps on the Chilliwack River.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s different kinds of minerals as well that are toxic to the fishes and to the whole aquatic life that gets threatened due to these pollutants,\u201d Raja said<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/webapps.9c9media.com\/vidi-player\/1.9.24\/share\/iframe.html?currentId=2621795&amp;config=ctvnews\/share.json&amp;kruxId=&amp;rsid=bellmedianewsprod,bellmediaglobalprod&amp;siteName=ctvnews&amp;cid=%5B%7B%22contentId%22%3A%222621795%22%2C%22ad%22%3A%7B%22adsite%22%3A%22ctv.ctvnews%22%2C%22adzone%22%3A%22embed%22%7D%7D%5D\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"c-title__text\"><strong>Deformities in the fish&#8217;: Pollutants found in waterways near Fraser Valley encampments<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a id=\"c-bioContainer__Data--Link\" class=\"bio-link-follow\" title=\"See more from Michele Brunoro\" href=\"https:\/\/bc.ctvnews.ca\/michele-brunoro-1.872327\" data-mparticlebio=\"Michele Brunoro\">Michele Brunoro<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Anchor \/ Multi-skilled Journalist, CTV News Vancouver<\/em><br \/>\n<em>February 2, 2023<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Hidden along old logging roads and tucked in near rivers and waterways, are campers who have made Crown land near the Chilliwack River their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the encampments have been here for months, and there are old trailers as well as make-shift shelters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Fraser Valley has experienced a 48 per cent increase in homelessness,\u201d said Afia Raja, an assistant professor of land use and environment change at the University of the Fraser Valley.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s referencing the most recent numbers available from a homeless count in 2021. But a count later this year is expected to show a growing number of unhoused people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bc.ctvnews.ca\/deformities-in-the-fish-pollutants-found-in-waterways-near-fraser-valley-encampments-1.6258088\">CONTINUE READING &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Afia Raja, Assistant Professor from the School of Land Use and Environmental Change was recently interviewed on the CTV Vancouver News on the topic of the\u00a0 environmental impact of abandoned homeless camps on the Chilliwack River. \u201cIt\u2019s different kinds of minerals as well that are toxic to the fishes and to the whole aquatic &#8230; <a title=\"Dr. Afia Raja appears on CTV Vancouver News\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/2023\/02\/13\/dr-afia-raja-appears-on-ctv-vancouver-news\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":11548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,58,440,1],"tags":[463],"class_list":["post-11547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deans-office","category-news","category-sluec-departments","category-uncategorized","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11547"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11552,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11547\/revisions\/11552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/science\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}