Posts from ‘General’ - Page 9
Women and Children First
When I was a kid I was taught that when in danger, women andchildren were saved first. I don’t know where I heard first the expression, perhaps itwas in ...
Dogwood Cute? Never
Dogwood Cute? Never We have been getting some interesting feedback to our recent appeal to protect our BC’s endangered Orca’s. If you haven’t seen it yet the campaign focuses ...
Race to the Bottom
The false economy of BC’s natural gas royalty reductions The BC budget may try to hide the figures, but there is no getting around the facts, the BC Government ...
In Whose Interest?
Across North America popular interest and progressive land use planning is being side stepped by developers who’s systematized power to manipulate political and legal procedures buys them the freedom ...
Teddy's courage and me
Teddy Kennedy died this week. I never met the man personally, but he had a profound impact on my life. It was not just his work on health care, ...
Open Season for Developers
Executives at Western Forest Products (WFP) must have been dancing on their board room tables last Thursday. That was when the BC court of appeal released its decision to ...
A Different Kind of Environmentalism
I was introduced to environmentalism by my teacher in grade eight. I learned about the destruction of the rainforest in Brazil, decaying refrigerators in China, parched rivers in the ...
Photos from the Douglas Channel
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Swimming together
Every once in a while you get the chance to visit a place that moves you and changes you for the rest of your life; the Douglas Channel, Sacred ...